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Nursing School (not for the squeamish)
Well, I have come to realize that being in school to be a registered nurse has really hardened me a great deal. First of all life and death are far more common topics of thought and conversation than I had originally considered them to be. I also have a much greater appreciation for living rather than just being alive, which seems to be an ( Read more... ) -
Classes are eating my life... again
Well, I am back in the nursing program again, and once more it is eating my life. Currently the consumption is more of a schedule issue than a workload one, as my instructor is new to this particular course and has no idea how we are supposed to get all that we need of psychiatric nursing in only four weeks. Having to get up around 4:00 am in order ( Read more... ) -
A Good Day
Today has been a good day.
I slept in about two hours past what I had intended, waking before I still needed to, with no stress about it. Friends came over, Anthony and Neya, and cooking ensued--trout and broccoli, with other snackage before and after. I did have some slight drama when my garage door opener decided to stop functioning after the ( Read more... ) -
Fire update, and some of what's been rattling around in my head over the last few days.
With all the imagery of burning homes and reporters showing what seems to be the same footage of fires sweeping all over San Diego County, my mind has been wandering a lot and I've been considering just what happened that we are once again in a fire disaster. For starters, here's an update about what is going on in Fallbrook, as most of the news ( Read more... ) -
As Fallbrook burns...
Well, incase you hadn't heard, my home town of Fallbrook is on fire. My family was evacuated yesterday, around 2:30 pm, and we were diverted through the Naval Weapons Station and Camp Pendelton as all other routes out of Fallbrook were closed due to the fires. Per the latest resport so far it seems our house will be spared, but that all depends on ( Read more... ) -
School progress...
Well, my last exam before the final is done. I managed 88% on this one, mostly due to my math abilities. That said, I missed a three point (i.e. 6% of the test) problem because it was a trick question. I am more than a little annoyed that the teacher pulled this one at the last minute, and all but one student in the class missed it because it was a ( Read more... ) -
Happy Turkey Day!
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Autopsy
Well, today I went with the nursing classes to see an autopsy at the Riverside County Coroner's Office. It was rather uneventful, actually. The person is treated like a body, and there is little respect paid to it other than trying not to damage the exterior where it may be viewed by the family at the mortuary. Honestly, it reminded my of seeing ( Read more... ) -
PS, a couple of annoyances I need to rant about
In case on one ever heard this before, the humor of nursing students (approximating that of what are are working to become) is rather crude and base. I think I have grown quite sick of it, and wish I could tell the others in my class about this, but I am more concerned that it will cause segregation between them and me. Medicine deals with a great ( Read more... ) -
Time for some catching up.
It's been most of the semester since I typed anything up and posted it, but some things have been running through my mind a lot lately, and I think I need to get reacquainted with those who I lost touch with online. The first step, for me, is to do a bit of a brain dump about what has consumed my life for so long.
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