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ok, since i can't concentrate on my care plan, i'll update. i live and breath school. i have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. it's not tasty. but it's certainly better than last semester. we've progressed to venipuncture and IV meds administration, though i've yet to draw blood samples or start an IV. i'm assigned in round rock, so i was quite miffed to find out that i'm driving an extra two hours or so every week to go somewhere i did not register for and just around the time that gas prices soar to the holy heavens. but my agitation has been numbed by high-fat foods from wendy's value menu and lack of sleep and whatever else can fry your brain, so i'm good. i've inadvertently (i don't know what that means) isolated myself from everyone not in the nursing program, and i found out that that is a common phenomena among nursing students. it helps preserve what relationships you did have before the professional sequence of the program, and hopefully things will thaw out well once commencement ceremonies commence. i miss hearing people talk about their stuff, i miss arrested development, i miss weekends. but this semester really is so much better than last. my clinical instructors are more understanding of the fact that we're students, not RNs (yet), so their methods of instruction help me actually learn hows and whys rather than make me feel stupid and worthless and regretful of not standing in front of the #15 southbound. all my instructors make sense and are competent in their subjects, so yay to that. i'm also in a mental hospital once a week, and that's fun. i've been in the forensic unit, so all the people i've spoken to the past month have come from prison. they have very interesting stories. lots of drug use and petty crime, except for one person who was serving 20 for killing a significant other, but you look past all that and listen to their stories (the parts that are coherent and cohesive) and all the problems start at home with the family. so all i can ask of those of you having kids (one day or soon) is to love them unconditionally. and realize your shortcomings and weaknesses so you can ask for help in those departments. sorry for beind pedantic. i've been writing too many careplans. anyway, hurrah for halloween. thanks to inspiration from psychick, i've decided to be the worst makeshift frida kahlo since that's all i have time for. but it's better than nothing. everyone have a safe halloween!