As it is Friday, and I was really missing the Friday routine of posting something new and having people say Yay Story, time for a happy post! And here is something new! I hope you are all as happy about it as I am.

Passion & Profession is done. DONE. As in, put a fork in it, bb. Edited, sweated over, spell-checked about 45 times, revised, sweated ( Read more... )

My Grandpa's been in bad shape for a year now. A year ago, he was driving back and forth between assisted living and the nursing home my grandma had to go live in, after she broke her femur. And then ... something happened. We never figured out what. A massive series of very small strokes was the best guess, and it didn't really matter. Within a ( Read more... )

*LPN, bbs. Don't get too excited.

BUT boards have been passed! nursing has been partially achieved! And for those unfamiliar with the nursing certification system round these here parts, it goes like this:

Licensed Practical Nurses can do about 17 things, mostly under supervision. Also there are very few jobs. Think of it as "nurse lite." I do not ( Read more... )

here is a thing that I wrote for tracy7307 while she was recuperating from surgery. At least, I had *intended* to write it in a timely manner, and give it to her when I got out. Passion & Profession, work, sleep etc so THAT didn't happen. So I wrote this at work yesterday on my lunch break. :D it is, of course, set in the Mrc&Esc 'verse, which I made up one ( Read more... )

Everybody, I'm a moron. Remember that ( Read more... )

So, so happy and sad ( Read more... )

Is anyone else watching Torchwood? I really hope so, because otherwise I am going to have to talk about it all on my own, and that wouldn't be very much fun. Look, I really liked the first two seasons. So cool and creepy and more grown up than Dr. Who (although I love Dr. Who also!) and then everyone died and I was like UGH AM DONE WITH THAT. Yeah ( Read more... )

Mrc and Esc wake in their small cave when the sun comes up. They both want food, but all Mrc finds is old meat. It smells.

“Esc, no food.”

“That is bad,” Esc says. “We will hunt!”

( it does not improve after the jump. )

Douche:  Affirmative Action has certainly made [race] an issue in academics. Every time you go to a black doctor or lawyer you might wonder if this guy is the truly talented guy you need or some shmoe that got in school via AA. Since white people have to fend for themselves when it comes to getting into schools, this is never an issue ( Read more... )

I am eating my first strawberries of the season. It's been a crummy spring here in Seattle, so they're late (as usual--a couple of years back the Strawberry Festival actually had to ship in strawberries from California, since the locals weren't ready yet). Better late than never, of course, and this American is now going to take the chance to once ( Read more... )