Modern Soapbox

This month has been good to me. Tonight was one of the two scheduled Pluckers nights. I went for five Fire in the Hole wings like I did the last time. Five is not so bad. Any more is death. They’re hott, but they’re tolerable in smaller increments.
The posse included K$, Neil, Gunner, Rhino, Mare [...]

With the Labor day holiday behind us, school is officially in full swing. I have already had one test and several homework assignments. It seems like every fall is an uphill battle, with the warm weather beckoning me outside and away from my textbooks and the laziness of summertime is still left [...]

The biggest thought running through my head as of late is whether or not I should completely give up on becoming a nurse. I have the opportunity over the summer to retake the two classes I withdrew from last month. I truly want to make my parents proud, but in my heart, I don’t want [...]

My instructor emailed me about my second exam grade and wanted to know what my plan was. I replied telling her that I wasn’t going to give up without putting up a fight. I was going to study ’til my brain bled, and I was going to make it through again like I did last [...]

After I woke up on Tuesday, I showered and dressed to go to the nearby campus to withdraw.
I really wanted to fight, but I didn’t want to stress myself to the point that I’d feel destroyed if I ended up losing the fight. I blame myself for everything, and that’s okay. I don’t feel [...]

If the institution’s system wasn’t so flawed, then I wouldn’t have had to wait in the saturation representation of a waiting list to get into the program. I was on it for a long time, something like a year and a half but could have been two years.
I think having someone wait that long to [...]

With school off my back, I feel free. I feel whole again not having to experience The Worst Days Ever. I don’t have to show up to work tired as a horse and feel time tick oh so slow. I can concentrate on my creative endeavors again and feel less miserable about existing.
I really enjoy [...]

Last Friday, I had to work with the same patient I had the day before. He had been feeling impacted for days and had received an enema on that Thursday. He was prescribed enemas as needed and needed one that day.
The nurse had me perform the task, so I gave the guy an enema. It [...]

I did not do as bad on my exam as I did on the last one. With the fact that I really only studied the material last night and right before the test, I did pretty well. The grade isn’t passing by the program’s curve, but it is passing based on college grading. I don’t [...]

I apologize for being busier than you at times. I have a mastery demo and an exam tomorrow followed by work. Tuesday is another day of work followed by a dinner get-together with the PKP crew which I’ll probably be staying up decently late for. On early Wednesday morning, I’ll be enjoying the pain of [...]

My nights of sleeping as late as I want and almost getting up with just enough time to get ready for work are over for this week. Tonight, I go to bed early to be up at the painful 6th hour of Thursday to attend my clinical day for the week.
This Friday is a learning [...]

Judging by the title of the post, you might have thought that I flunked my final exam and got myself kicked out of the nursing program. Well, you’re wrong, you sadistic ignoramus.
I took Thursday off to relax and study for my final. The exam was a hundred questions over everything taught over the eight-week session. [...]

I’m winding down for the night, but I have to get all my notes ready to go for the extreme study session that awaits me tomorrow. I also have to wake up too early in the morning to attend a learning lab at 8am. I guess I should be grateful that it isn’t a clinical [...]