I am a new homeowner, sort of.

Brent and I will be closing on a 3 bedroom 2.5 bathroom townhouse in the Montrose area of Houston in the end of March. Well, technically, the place is completely his. I won't actually be moving in until early May when I finish my classes here in College Station. I am excited, but there are hurdles to live through before I can even begin to think about the new place. Until then, I need to ween myself off of HGTV (seriously addicting). I guess the two main hurdles are finishing up this year and to do well on the USMLE coming up in June. All this studying is exhausting, and thinking about all the studying I will have to do is even more exhausting.

My freshmen year of summer, I worked in a lab at Rice, and one of the new grad students was this guy named Jonathan who was married (engaged at the time) to a MD/PhD student who was studying for her USMLE step 2. I remember we would always go to restaurants and do stuff after lab in groups. However, I never once saw his fiance. He would always say she was busy studying. I remember thinking that it must be sad to study so much and have your husband/fiance go out with friends without you all the time. Now that I am in that boat...I would love for Brent to go out all the time and leave me alone to study. I guess it helps that he currently lives 100 miles away. It was nice to be alone this weekend. I know, I've become my worst nightmare. Hopefully, my social life and educational burdens will improve when I enter my grad school years (beginning in July).