Overwhelmed and Irritated...

As Thanksgiving has just passed I know that I should be remembering to be thankful. Thankful that this semester is almost over! But at this point I am so ready to be done I would love to just be done right now! 12 days is all I have left. 12 days! If I have made it this far certainly I can make it a measly 12 days...

Here is a list of what is left to do in these 12 days:

1. Test in Community Health

2. Peds summative lab

3. Meeting about my LAST semester of nursing school!!

4. Summative lab in OB

5. OB Final (which I haven't begun to study for)

6. 2 hour presentation in my Professional Nursing (PN) class

7. Working with my PN project teammates to collect and finalize our presentation information.

8. Finish the final details and do all of the writing for my teaching project I had to do for PN.

9. Write a paper for peds on ALL (a type of leukemia) that is due Dec 7.

10. Make a powerpoint presentation of this info and prepare a 5-6 presentation on my information from my ALL paper.

11. Present this information on Dec 7th.

12. Take my peds final on dec 10th.

13. Pack to go home.

14. Collect whatever wont fit into my suitcase and get it ready so that I can mail it home.

15. Do final essays for PN due dec 10th.

16. Put together final portfolio for PN class to be turned in on dec 10.

17. Fly home on Dec 10th!

18. CAN I GO BACK TO BED????????

Oy vey! I am thankful...I am thankful...

I really am thankful for many things including my family and friends back home, my dog Earl, my friends the Wests who invited me to their Thanksgiving dinner, and this semester is almost over.

I guess now I need to get back to schoolwork...but I DON'T WANNA!!!!!!!

My Oh My...

This past week has been very sad for Seattle Mariners fans. Our beloved Hall of Fame Broadcaster Dave Niehaus passed away at the age of 75. Dave has been the voice of the Mariners since their beginning in 1977. Every Mariner fan has fond memories of his voice (which is the Seattle Mariners) and his one liners like "Fly, fly away" and "My Oh My". Mariners games will never be the same...you will be missed Dave!

Just for a minute...

I should be working on two projects that I have due this week for school. Somehow thanks to the glorious invention of the internet (Thanks Al...yeah right) this ADD'er finds more excuses to NOT do homework! I think I might have a record of the number of Facebook log-ins in a day!

I am currently in the midst of writing a paper on Bulimia for my Community Health class and info for a powerpoint presentation for my Professional Nursing class. Both of these classes have become my Achilles heel in nursing school...the bane of my existence! To say that I despise these classes and the ridiculous amount of busy work they require is putting it mildly. I could go on and on about how these classes are completely ridiculous and how I have not learned anything in them nor will/are they preparing me to be a better nurse. They just serve to irritate me...must have a positive attitude...must have a positive attitude...yeah right sea cow! I have also beyond this have made 2 posters for projects in classes. Yes, you read this right, POSTERS! The trifold, print things out and glue them on pasteboards just like a junior high science fair project. I am 33 years old...I do NOT want to be making posters!!!!

I must remember that this semester is almost over...23 days until I am on a plane COMING HOME!! and 9 of those days do not involve school! However another thing I have learned in nursing school is a break such as Thanksgiving doesn't mean that you can take a break from school...it just means that you have 4 days without having to be anywhere that you can work on school! Oh boy!

I came into this semester thinking it would be my favorite. With classes like Pediatrics, Community Health, OB, and this Professional Nursing this was going to be my face semester. YEAH RIGHT! This is BY FAR the worst and the funny part is my best grade is likely going to be in OB which is my least favorite content! "I don't want to know nothin' 'bout birthing' no babies!"

But I have Christmas Blend in my coffee cup (whoohoo!) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 just 2 days away so for the moment I will survive. (I really do try to find the bright side in things despite how this post sounds.)

I should sign off for now...but "I'll be back!"

Its been a long time...

It has been a long time since I have updated this...I was in my first clinical the last time and now I am almost done with my 3rd semester. A lot has happened since then. I will update this soon as for now I must walk Earl.