Sunday, November 23, 2008

12 Days of Thanksgiving: Day 8

We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.--Sacred ritual chant

Compared to all these people, my friend Julie Woltil is a relative newcomer to my life, having “only” been friends with her now for just over four years. I met her my first day of class at LLU, and she had just gotten married that summer like I did. We’re in the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology together at Loma Linda, and she has been my sounding board for the challenges, frustrations, and victories that go along with graduate school. Now that we both have little girls, I affectionately call Julie my enabler, because she enjoys shopping almost as much as I do, and I can count on her for participation in retail therapy as we’re going through internship application season together. Although she’s applying to sites all over the country, I’m still holding out some hope we could end up together on internship.

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