Mad Scribblings From the Life of a Middle-Aged New Nurse
Did you ever look through your childhood diaries and, despite knowing the author was you as a 9-year-old, found yourself embarrassed? Yet there it is in colorful ink. Sophisticated bon mots they are not. "Bobby is such a dum dum i want to punch him." Oh yes, what a deep thinker! Sheer poetry! We often... Continue Reading →
Bob called me yesterday to let me know he quit his job again. He ghosted his employer -- again!! I started counting them up. This is the fifth job in five years that Bob has quit via the most chicken shit method of quitting known to mankind. He didn't show up and didn't go back.... Continue Reading →
Now that I have the job at Grey-Sloan lined up and have graduated Nursing School -- though still awaiting the license exam -- I'm finding myself entering a new phase of life. And I want that life to be better than the one I'm leaving behind. My brother's wife pointed out to me that I... Continue Reading →
Once again, I have failed the first exam of the semester, and once again, not by much (failed by 3 points translating to two questions). This, despite efforts to gain ground by pre-studying before the semester began, trying a new note-taking technique, and drilling questions for days on end. Still failed the damn test by... Continue Reading →
I am so damn tired. All the color has drained out of my life, and I feel like a shadow of whatever the hell I used to be. I enjoy nothing least of all medicine. The only thing I look forward to every day is going home and sleeping. I used to love medicine. The... Continue Reading →
I have reached the mid-point in my penultimate semester of Nursing School. I failed Exam 2, but only by 0.45 points. I still have time to recover from that bad grade. Somehow, I'm comfortable with failure. WHY? It feels as if all the color has drained from my life. I just keep my head above... Continue Reading →
Back in the day, I used to sing -- and for a while, I was also a well-known artist. For a time, I was a VERY big noise and wanted to be even bigger. I worked a crummy day job at a national company -- one might say I was working for a branch of... Continue Reading →
My former coworkers in retail have the best memes about shitty customers. One that is making the rounds this morning is accompanied by the caption "people suck" -- picturing a manager telling a customer the same thing the cashier just did. Difficult customers who always want to talk to the manager are classic retail-worker fodder.... Continue Reading →
When I was young, my parents were terrified by the rapidly changing world they were surrounded by -- a world they did not grow up in themselves. They were so afraid that it would corrupt their youngest child beyond repair that they over-protected me. It was a world they really didn't understand. So much had... Continue Reading →
After finishing the floor in the back half of the bathroom, the cleaning is on hold for the moment. I kinda ran out of steam. I'm not sure why. There's hardly anything left to finish, yet I CANNOT get myself to complete it. I joined some facebook cleaning support groups and believe it or not,... Continue Reading →
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