Prosaic Paradise

Oh has school ever started. To say that the accelerated program is not a walk in the park is an understatement. It’s definitely more like a walk over hot coals. While people are throwing hot coals at you from secret unseen alcoves. They are very strict in nursing school – presumably because in the real [...]

Here they are, all 40lbs of books for my summer semester. It’s a little intimidating, a little exhilarating. I really want to unpackage them and look at them, but at the same time, most of them are unreturnable if opened, and I want the prof to confirm I got the right books. You DO NOT [...]

I really thought that when my time of employment ended, I would be a blogging maniac. I thought I would be endlessly analyzing in writing what I am going through right now. I thought I would, and could not wait to, lead my friends in a public dialogue about my shit because I felt like [...]

…from a future Nursing student perspective. I keep thinking about what one tech said to me as she was poking around for a vein to take blood. I had asked her, like I asked every single human in scrubs who entered my room because I was trapped in bed and shameless, where she went to [...]

Here is the recipe for turning around a bad day: 1: Have a really good guitar lesson. We spent the entire lesson on Josh Homme’s solo at the end of Little Sister, and I learned that I need to get way more aggressive about bending the strings. While I play it at a snail’s pace [...]

Is Chicken Leg. I don’t know why, his little kitty IV shaven area makes me think Chicken Leg. He doesn’t like it when I pet his shorn area but it’s all I want to do before it grows back! He only had three teeth removed. I think Hero’s kind of jealous. I have been immersed [...]

I seem to be getting both in equal measure, but that still means I’m having success. This week I signed myself up for a photography workshop led by Me Ra Koh. I knew as soon as I saw the announcement on her web site that she was coming to DC, that I was going to [...]

I finally just pledged some cash to WTMD, our local actually good radio station. For a long time I thought “why even try when I can get exactly what I want, when I want it, now? Why bother when the radio can play ten things I don’t like first? But this past week they have [...]

This evening I drove up to the local Chipotle and saw this. I don’t know, maybe something shorted out inside the sign. But it looks like it exploded. Likely it is old news, as I don’t get down that way very often! In other news, which you probably know from other sources, I slam-dunked the [...]

I got a letter from the Office of Admissions and Advising at Howard Community College! I think the thin letter/thick letter thing kind of doesn’t count when you are applying to Nursing shool at community college, but I can’t tell you for sure, because I only got a thin letter. It goes something like this: [...]