There's something about receiving an officious letter that makes the merest formalities feel momentous. (I am sure regular readers recall my giddy squee-ing following these letters ( Read more... )

I beat my finals.

(Just barely, but I beat them)

Actually quoted from one of my textbooks. No joke.

Nursing Diagnosis ( Read more... )

( Monday )

Right.

Here I am. It's the largest city in Vermont. It's Burlington. It's UVM. It's been more difficult than I'd ever dreamed.

( The Science and the Art of Attending Nursing School: The good, the bad, and the unbelievably smelly. )

1.) I just finished my on-line summer coursework. It was miserable. I have decided that I hate on-line classes, and never want to do them ever again. I learn by listening, by discussing, and through hands-on experience, not from having a textbook thrown at me and my instructor saying, "GO ( Read more... )

I suddenly understand why they call it being in school 'full time ( Read more... )

First of all, it is a relief to learn that in fact, I am not of two utterly estranged minds and disjointed bodies, one living humbly here in Vermont while my alter ego lives large in Korea- no, I have been the victim of identity theft. Luckily my bank, being smart, realized that I am not the sort of person to drop thousands of dollars on purchases ( Read more... )

The Mason Jar has been shaken hard. In chronological order ( Read more... )

To entirely rearrange my life ( Read more... )