So things are chugging along. I get married in 3 months (HOLY CRAAAAAAP I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!!) and i really need to start locking down the final vendors asap. I'm gonna start cake tasting next week and I need to find someone to do hair and make up becuase i'm increcibly challanged in both areas. I feel ike I've done so much and yet the list to ( Read more... )

Spring is here and I am appropriately busy! First off I got accepted to the Lawrence Memorial/Regis College nursing program, yay! It's a part time evening RN program that should take me 2 years to complete and from there I'll go on to  masters in nursing which should take another 2 years. People always seem aghast that this is going to take me " ( Read more... )

LJ us blocked at work so I've been reading and posting much less. I've also been generally much, much happier these days and fairly low on the angst scale, at least for me. So new job is going super well, I've gotten over being a glorified secretary as A.) I confirmed that I make more the my old research peers, B.) People are super duper nice C ( Read more... )

So just wrapped up my first Dragon Con, over all it was good. I did get frustrated with my ability to get very confused navigating the 4 hotels and I got a *wee* bit mad (okay a lot mad) that I missed the Patrick Stewart panel due to some poor communication (we waited for the rest of the group for 30 mins, they assumed we had already gone in and by ( Read more... )

So I gave three weeks notice a little while back so I now have 11 days left on the job (6 more with the crazy boss). I’m still waiting on the final salary offer adjustment from the VA, the woman who handles it was of course on vacation last week, but she sent it through and doesn’t anticipate it being rejected. In the mean time my unofficial job ( Read more... )

So lots of job nonsense going on. It got to the point where I started exhibiting a lot of concerning somatic anxiety issues, such as loss of appetite, heart palpitations, early wakening (waking up an a hour early than you normally do with chest pain and anxiety, a major sign of depression), crying uncontrollably, sleep problems and I had my first ( Read more... )

So I let me current PI (head doc, my boss’s boss) know that, while I don’t have anything solid yet, I’m looking for a new job. I explained that while I know that I want to be a nurse I’m not entirely sure what kind of nurse I want to be so I’d like to work in a different department for a while. He was really chill and gracious about it and agreed ( Read more... )

So wedding stuff has actually calmed down a lot, to the point where I feel silly for being so upset. My mom is off for the summer so her really intense work stress is gone for the summer and she's gone back to being a normal reasonable and completely lovable person, which is such a relief. She's doing a ton of work for the party in a few weeks, ( Read more... )

School: Community college is much, much easier than Harvard, who would have known right? So I’m taking Anatomy and Physiology this summer and as the Harvard Extension class didn’t have a lab and thus wouldn’t count for nursing school, Cynthia and I both enrolled in Bunk Hill Community College for a summer course. The work load is much lower than ( Read more... )

Crazy mom update: after having tried to talk her down this morning I get a call from my dad say that my mom basically had a nervous breakdown at work and was sent home by her boss due to emotional distress. So.... I'm not allowed to talk to her for a few days. So yeah.... yay wedding!