I GOT THE JOB!!!!!

I start June 7. Ok brain: be ready to be a sponge!

Ha! I took this quiz and picked all the answers that made me laugh, and look what I turned out to be...



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Today at the hospital I had a conversation that just blew me away. It was 8:00am and the sunrise was stark & orange through the woman's window. I asked how she was feeling, could I listen to her lungs?... and off we went. She told me how she is a minister with a doctorate in interfaith studies. She had a brain injury that resulted in short term ( Read more... )

So my psychiatric nursing course has begun. The instructor is a secular Franciscan monk with a full, bushy gray beard, a calm voice, a pilot's license, and seven degrees. Yesterday, at 8:00 am, my clinical group met to do a "Therapeutic Communication Role Play." Eee gads-- we had to bring a real problem (but not too real) that upset us (but not ( Read more... )

I want to post something cool, but right now it's all seeming too mundane. Too much self-disclosure. In "modern life" with all its alienation, where is the privacy? Why are people interested in telling others what's going on in their minds, blow-by-blow ( Read more... )

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want-- an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

(That's the quotation at the top of my planner this week.)

My birthday is this Sunday! I'm having a "bacchanal" on Saturday night with Greek & Mediterranean food, and I'm trying to decide what kind of cake to make ( Read more... )

Oh, boy, did I ever score at the thrift store today. I found 2 vintage polyester shirtdresses, a long purple silk skirt, 4 going-out tops, a tankini swimsuit top, a purse, flip flops, Keds, a Woolrich shirt, a Lands End sweater. squeeeeeee ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an unproductive day-- at least, not productive in the way it should have been. I should have gone to the library, read the textbooks for OB, watched the reserved videos, etc etc. Instead, I posted to LJ, went for a walk by the river, Googled airfare to Miami & trainfare to Chicago, watched "Inventing the Abbotts," and went to a ( Read more... )

My friend Brix has started his own book list, "Books for a Post-Apocalyptic World." On the list is World War Z, by Max Brooks. I am a bit obsessed with zombies, so I decided to check it out. So I'm sitting in the Barnes & Noble in East Lansing last night, reading the first 50 pages or so ( Read more... )