Just another July day

Hi everyone, it's just another July day, spend grading papers and speeches and getting ready for my move to Minneapolis. I had a couple of thoughts strike me today, which have all been keeping me thinking.

Cancer came up in my class today - I had never intended to share this information, but I was talking with another student about health issues and felt like since she had confided in me, I needed to reciprocate back and share with her. As other students filed in, they heard bits and pieces and started asking about it. It was actually a great talk, as we often dont talk about this and as young adults, dont often find ourselves facing this problem. Ialso feel like I have a duty as a "survivor story" to share, especially since the sad truth is that cancer doens't have nearly as many of those as they should.

Since cancer seemed to be the topic of the day, it only seemed fitting that while watching the first 5 mintues of CSI New York they discovered the victim had thyroid cancer. This has been the second television show to bring this up in the last few months (the other was Grey's Anatomy). I find it interesting since it is not one of the more common cancers. I am guessing it is because the survival rate is so high, but who knows.

This Friday is the Relay for Life of Blue Earth County. Some of us MSU folks are going to go and help "Rock the Relay" and scope out new ideas for next year. It breaks my heart to know I will not be able to help with next years relay, but I am so proud of the group and confident in their abilities they will do nothing less than shine and put on a fantastic night for everyone. I am so excited to go back and check it out! Hopefully we will get great pictures next week to post!