I feel badly that the close friend who unwittingly inspired the story previously posted here was uncomfortable therewith, so I have removed it per his request. My few great friends mean the world to me.

Everybody wants to know about my job prospects, and I'm happy to let you know what's up ( Read more... )

Today, I reconciled with a friend with whom I shared a sort of falling-out a year ago. I'm relieved, and proud of both of us, and mostly just glad to have this bright part of my life back again.

I have graduated today, at last, from my four-year BS-N program. I am a Graduate Nurse now, which lets me practice for a time until I receive my RN license, or fail the licensing exam, or 90 days expire. I expect to be a full RN in January.

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Few of you know that I rarely heat my apartment, in part because I heat it to have anyone over. But unless I have to do a lot of work from home, I shut the furnace off entirely and open all the windows, and let it be 45 degrees in side, or as low as it will go. I once woke to find the cup of water beside my bed partially frozen over ( Read more... )

This verse is a terrible sonnet,
for I don't know its rules, doggonit.
But haiku are too easy,
and always sound cheesy,
So teach me new verse, and I'm on it.

Really Bad Haiku
with Wynn Martin

Haikai no ku, or
haiku, to you, has four syl-
lables, to your two.

Really Bad Haiku
with Wynn Martin

Really Bad Haiku
Isn't really "really bad."
Or haiku, really.

Really Bad Haiku,
with Wynn Martin

If it's freezing out,
and you go, you know... outside...
...you can freeze. The End.


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