I'm sure you've missed my lists.

1. My preceptorship/internship/indentured servitude has begun!  And I don't actually hate it, even though it's floor nursing and I have to do it way more than should be allowed while I still have classes and band.
2. My preceptor is awesome.  No, seriously.  She gets it.
3. We're tied with Cal for #1 in the PAC-10.  ( Read more... )

Welcome to Pointless Ramblings About Schoolz, Part Deux.

Nursing Care of the Mental Health Patient (aka Psych, aka The Class During Which I Resist Poking My Eyes Out with My Pen)
It all began at 7:30am.  Typically, this will be my very first class of the week on Monday morning at 8am, but today, we were blessed enough to have a cram session of psych ( Read more... )

Last night I went to my sister's band concert, per usual around this time of year.  Unfortunately, I've made it a habit of not being in concert band in the fall due to class conflicts and the time sponge that is marching band, leaving me as part of the audience.  But, I'm not the typical audience member.  I'm that person who feels physically ( Read more... )

More question game stuff!  Feel free to comment with new questions, I didn't get a ton of feedback last time.  This is a super easy way to find a topic to blog with.  Prepare youselves for the longest post in the history of the world.  (Hopefully someone will read it.)

David (aka
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It's been about a month since I quit my babysitting job, and I still don't feel as though I'm utilizing my newly found time as well as I should be. Studying and my honors projects loom over my head in a dark cloud, practicing is constantly forgotten due to lack of interest or lethargy, working out is dependent upon how busy my clinical rotation or ( Read more... )

In attempt to be more positive and less high-strung, I am going to focus on all of the good that happened this week. With how I began it and the beginning of OB clinicals, it's been an amazingly good week. I think that changing a bit of my perspective and trying to keep a good outlook on everything has made me a little more resilient to the ( Read more... )

Somehow I have found myself some pre-semester stress and it's not pretty.  I feel like I piled far too much food on my dinner plate and the chicken wings and coleslaw and extra brownies are falling onto the recently vacuumed carpet, too swiftly for me to catch them.  (A big part of being a clutz.)  The College of Nursing has decided that keeping ( Read more... )