Prosaic Paradise

I cannot just go with the flow. There is something within my makeup that won’t let things be simple. As graduation from nursing school approaches, a million questions rear their heads. Go right into a Bachelor’s program? Wait a little? Which one? How are you even going to pay for that, you lunatic? Will you […]

I just got home from my 12 hour shift – at school, of course. I tend to get there at 9am and so long as my study group is there, I stay there until 8 or 9 pm. Admittedly, 10-20% of our study time is spent on blue humor and discussion of farts. I can’t […]

I’m alive. I don’t really know what to say, or where to begin. It was a rough summer. I withdrew from the accelerated program – mental and physical health issues – and by the grace of the nursing faculty, I got right into the traditional 2 year program. I might be considered lucky to have […]

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 […]