Hello SCHOOL
After days of planning, weeks of paperwork, months of research and years of waiting, I'm finally going back to school.
Heard the good news this morning, just after I finish morning routines and before I left for work.
All I could remember was this line, "Yes, you've been accepted."
Then I don't know whether the words that came out of my mouth actually made sense. I think not.
Right after college, my plan is to plan for graduate school. While most people rejoiced at the fact that they're finally leaving the school atmosphere, I wasn't. But then, a lot of things happened. A job that demands a lot of time, a program that was offered and then suddenly not, and many other random things that will pass as an 'excuse' to postpone the original plan.
Then one morning, I decided to do the research and see my options.
Next thing I know, I'm asking people for recommendations and I'm looking for my college transcript.
And there I go.
This is probably the best advanced birthday gift ever.
By the way, enrollment day falls on my birthday.
Hello school.
Grey’s Anatomy Season Six Finale
Note: Please don't read this if you haven't seen the finale.
The whole season six of Grey's Anatomy to me is about Meredith growing up and being all whole and healed. She, in every sense, was able to resolve her dark past with her mom and dad and we see that because she was suddenly Lexie's big sister, she was the Chief's understanding wife, she was sort of everyone's person. Before Alex and Izzie decided to part ways, she's the friend who called Izzie to tell her her husband might be moving on. Mer is the same sister who told Alex to make the thing with Lexie a thing. And four seasons ago, we'd probably find her in Joe's drowning in tequila. (That reminds me, we haven't seen much of Joe's bar lately).
Watching Mer grow up, I find that somehow she dreads being a mother, because hers is not the conventional one. Her mom would leave her roaming around the hospital, her toys weren't make-up kits but suture kits, her doll isn't Barbie but Anatomy Jane, and then her mom once told her she was nothing but ordinary. But now it's different, she was actually happy about being a mom.
But she lost the baby, and Mer standing up to operate and say, "I'm having a miscarriage", boy, that one's for the books! We see an adult Meredith because she went above and beyond her own miseries for her people.
And there was Cristina, what is Mer without her, right?
As Shonda Rhimes says in their blog, it was Cristina's graduation. She's dealing with her own miseries but when she saw her person's husband dying, she snapped out of her own to be the surgeon that Mer and Derek needs her to be. I love their friendship and I love that Derek acknowledges that (giving her a room of her own).
Cristina is all whole and healed too. And the best thing about that, she and Mer went through it all together.
That's all I can say for now. I need to breathe and live the moments again. The moment when you see Alex longing for Izzie, the way Izzie looks at him when she's about to die, when Lexie chose Alex in front of Mark, when Teddy let go of Owen, when Bailey stopped and watched someone die.
This is by far the best season finale ever, the next challenge for the writers is how to create something better than this.
