I keep telling myself...
I keep telling myself... it's almost over, it's almost over, it's almost over... I passed pediatric nursing. I failed the final with a 70%, but I paC)ssed the class with a 77%. I have never worked so frakkin' hard for such a shitty grade: my one and only C in nursing school. No one I know in our class got higher than a C -- including people who were getting only As and Bs up to now. And we lost two more people. I've lost count of how many we've lost since September 2005 when we started. People I know didn't work half as hard for their BS/BA degrees as we are for this junior college associate degree -- and that includes me. Now we switch: the 2nd year students who finished psych nursing yesterday started peds today (and we who just finished peds started psych today).
There is no doubt in my mind anymore that we will lose yet more people before we get to graduation in May. It just seems to be a fact of nursing school.
I survived peds by (1) insane textbook reading, studying, review books, and practice questions and quizzes, and (B) watching about 4 hours of TV per week. Those 4 hours are inviolate. I don't talk on the phone, I don't try to read or study, I just watch my shows. The shows are BSG on Sunday night, Veronica Mars on Tuesday nights, Dirt after Veronica Mars, and CSI (LV) on Thursday nights. Oh, and I watched a bootleg DVD of Last King of Scotland Saturday night with my bf. I can see why Forest Whitaker (sp?) won the Oscar. I didn't watch any part of the Oscars. I read about them the next day in someone's newspaper.
And now I'll complain about my shows. Wtf? Why is Pussycat Dolls replacing VM on Tuesday night next week? I hate fucking reality shows. Pussycat Dolls will be no different. I hate America's Next Top Mindless. I hate Survivor. It's not "reality" if you had to audition for it. To bump VM for that kind of shit? Wtf is CW thinking? I can't even watch Gilmore Girls.
How about Sunday night's BSG ep? I just found it so amusing and ironic because my paper for my "comtemporary nursing issues" management class is on the history of unionization in nursing. I about fell over laughing when Roslin explained at the end that they were doing collective bargaining. Hello! What a great ep. Brought me back to season one of BSG.
And Dirt. I don't know why, because I never felt particularly compelled to watch her on Friends (although Friends was okay, like a lighter, younger Seinfeld), but Courtney Cox has me mesmerized on Dirt. And it's twisted, kinky, and seamy -- just like the Hollywood I always read about going all the way back to the teens and the silent film stars. Cox's character Lucy is like a high-strung train wreck waiting to happen (can only have orgasms with someone she doesn't even like, and she wants him to choke her during sex! all right!), so I just can't stop watching. And Konkey the schizo photographer and his cats just break my heart.
CSI... well, this season has been irritating me. There was Grissom's leave of absence (I know, I know, Peterson was in some play -- ok, fine, but he's the reason I watch the show! I mean, him and Nick and Warrick and Greg... ahem...). And then I was pissed when they killed off Liev Schreiber's character -- just when I was getting to like him! And what's with the cryptic Grissom/Sara bullshit? C'mon, people. We get that they're fucking. We got that in the season finale of last year. You can show them fucking, now. Really, it's okay. Shaving? With a straight razor? I mean, it's a closer shave, I'll grant you (ooooh! how meta of them! she said sarcastically), but it doesn't do much for them -- or for me.
And Veronica Mars. wtf, Logan!?! What happened to all that "lives ruined, blood shed" epic story stuff with Veronica? Now you're just whizz-bang done with Veronica, and already after Parker? Not even trying with Veronica? I admit, Veronica thinks she knows everything -- and she doesn't -- and her brittleness is starting to grate (has been). But you already know she's a hard sell and a tough cookie -- she always was! That's why you love her. Don't go for Parker. God. I mean, Parker's all right, but... eh, never mind.
I have no control over any of this... except in fanfic, of course. Of which I've written... almost none! Just about 2/3 of a HCL/FTWHTWD Joe Dick/Jerry Bines xover story, that I had to put away at the beginning of February. And I surprised myself: it's got pegging! I don't even know how that happened... it just took on a life of it's own, so I let it go where it wanted to go. I have to finish it; I dropped it at the beginning of February because, honestly, I couldn't do that and study peds too. Fortunately I'm told that psych nursing isn't too hard. So I feel the need to immediately slack and work on my story. Ironically, in our management class this afternoon, they lectured on time management and tools for overcoming procrastination and time-wasting: prioritize, set goals, break big jobs into smaller tasks, develop the habit of finishing things you start. Well. As soon as I heard that in the lecture, I immediately thought of all my WIPs and unfinished series and stories and whatnot. So it looks like I'll be applying time management to... the area of my life that least needs it.
Yay. Much rejoicing. :P
There is no doubt in my mind anymore that we will lose yet more people before we get to graduation in May. It just seems to be a fact of nursing school.
I survived peds by (1) insane textbook reading, studying, review books, and practice questions and quizzes, and (B) watching about 4 hours of TV per week. Those 4 hours are inviolate. I don't talk on the phone, I don't try to read or study, I just watch my shows. The shows are BSG on Sunday night, Veronica Mars on Tuesday nights, Dirt after Veronica Mars, and CSI (LV) on Thursday nights. Oh, and I watched a bootleg DVD of Last King of Scotland Saturday night with my bf. I can see why Forest Whitaker (sp?) won the Oscar. I didn't watch any part of the Oscars. I read about them the next day in someone's newspaper.
And now I'll complain about my shows. Wtf? Why is Pussycat Dolls replacing VM on Tuesday night next week? I hate fucking reality shows. Pussycat Dolls will be no different. I hate America's Next Top Mindless. I hate Survivor. It's not "reality" if you had to audition for it. To bump VM for that kind of shit? Wtf is CW thinking? I can't even watch Gilmore Girls.
How about Sunday night's BSG ep? I just found it so amusing and ironic because my paper for my "comtemporary nursing issues" management class is on the history of unionization in nursing. I about fell over laughing when Roslin explained at the end that they were doing collective bargaining. Hello! What a great ep. Brought me back to season one of BSG.
And Dirt. I don't know why, because I never felt particularly compelled to watch her on Friends (although Friends was okay, like a lighter, younger Seinfeld), but Courtney Cox has me mesmerized on Dirt. And it's twisted, kinky, and seamy -- just like the Hollywood I always read about going all the way back to the teens and the silent film stars. Cox's character Lucy is like a high-strung train wreck waiting to happen (can only have orgasms with someone she doesn't even like, and she wants him to choke her during sex! all right!), so I just can't stop watching. And Konkey the schizo photographer and his cats just break my heart.
CSI... well, this season has been irritating me. There was Grissom's leave of absence (I know, I know, Peterson was in some play -- ok, fine, but he's the reason I watch the show! I mean, him and Nick and Warrick and Greg... ahem...). And then I was pissed when they killed off Liev Schreiber's character -- just when I was getting to like him! And what's with the cryptic Grissom/Sara bullshit? C'mon, people. We get that they're fucking. We got that in the season finale of last year. You can show them fucking, now. Really, it's okay. Shaving? With a straight razor? I mean, it's a closer shave, I'll grant you (ooooh! how meta of them! she said sarcastically), but it doesn't do much for them -- or for me.
And Veronica Mars. wtf, Logan!?! What happened to all that "lives ruined, blood shed" epic story stuff with Veronica? Now you're just whizz-bang done with Veronica, and already after Parker? Not even trying with Veronica? I admit, Veronica thinks she knows everything -- and she doesn't -- and her brittleness is starting to grate (has been). But you already know she's a hard sell and a tough cookie -- she always was! That's why you love her. Don't go for Parker. God. I mean, Parker's all right, but... eh, never mind.
I have no control over any of this... except in fanfic, of course. Of which I've written... almost none! Just about 2/3 of a HCL/FTWHTWD Joe Dick/Jerry Bines xover story, that I had to put away at the beginning of February. And I surprised myself: it's got pegging! I don't even know how that happened... it just took on a life of it's own, so I let it go where it wanted to go. I have to finish it; I dropped it at the beginning of February because, honestly, I couldn't do that and study peds too. Fortunately I'm told that psych nursing isn't too hard. So I feel the need to immediately slack and work on my story. Ironically, in our management class this afternoon, they lectured on time management and tools for overcoming procrastination and time-wasting: prioritize, set goals, break big jobs into smaller tasks, develop the habit of finishing things you start. Well. As soon as I heard that in the lecture, I immediately thought of all my WIPs and unfinished series and stories and whatnot. So it looks like I'll be applying time management to... the area of my life that least needs it.
Yay. Much rejoicing. :P