I received an offer of employment with Walgreens after graduation. It's bittersweet for me. I have my backup now, if the residency thing doesn't work out. I am nothing if not cautious, so the backup is very important to me. But having that backup is also a temptation. Walgreens pays an awful lot more than a residency or subsequent employment in a ( Read more... )

This month was that of my required community rotation. I was placed at a lovely little independent store in Norman, and thank God for that. I've been working in retail pharmacy for over two years now, and there's just not that much difference between Walgreens and any other place. Although the slow pace and the personal knowledge of the customers ( Read more... )

I'm on month two of nine nonconsecutive months of pharmacy rotations. This month I'm at the Poison Control Center, which is about as boring as possible. I'm sure there's something out there that's more boring than this, as it does have the occasional panic-inducing or cringe-worthy phone call. They range from the mundane (2-year-olds eating dog ( Read more... )

Now, for my yearly post-a-little-bit-in-the-summer updates ( Read more... )

It's completely pointless, because I have to go on the highway to work and to school. But I want a little silly scooter. Maybe I'll splurge on one when I graduate. Garrison can get a Mustang GT and I can get $2000 scooter ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that I took a shower, and while I was there, pulled most of the hair out of my head. In so doing, I somehow also put a deep gash/hole into the side of my head and my forehead and pulled my lower teeth and parts of my lower jaw out. It was totally gruesome. I then walked around, doing mundane things, driving with friends, ( Read more... )

As I drove home today, I looked to the right into a field. There, all alone, stood a calf. My first thought was that the rest of the herd was using the calf as bait, and was lying in wait for some unfortunate predator to show up. When the wolf/coyote/bobcat/frat boy wanting veal showed up, they would pop up from the overgrown grass and mow it/him ( Read more... )

For some reason, when I try to post an update from my computer, my browser crashes. That's my sort-of excuse for not posting in about a million years ( Read more... )

I pulled all the weeds from the front flower bed this morning. Sure, they're going to come back, because I couldn't get all the roots and there isn't a good divider from the lawn. And my hands hurt like hell because I didn't use any gloves. But I pulled those damn weeds. It doesn't look like a jungle anymore. I could no longer fall in love with an ( Read more... )

Okay, so I sold many prescriptions today. But there was this one, in particular. Well, four to be precise, although two of them amounted to 5 bucks. The other two, well, they pushed the total up to $2,323.96. Yes, kids, drugs are expensive. At least, the ones needed to beat brain cancer are expensive. I could hardly bear to take the woman's money ( Read more... )