I was so eager to get started on school, and so stoked about life in general, that I got complacent last week. Any time you drop your guard, it’s coming: that one-two, straight up the middle, fast and hard and deadly. If those hit solid, you’re meat for the booming, vicious hook that sends you [...]

Always when you least expect it. (School is AWESOME! More on that soon.)

I drove down to visit some friends on my last pre-school weekend.  I don’t know what happened to my state, but everywhere I went during this trip, I had a sense of traveling through a post-apocalyptic wasteland of shambling, warped half-humans. On the drive down, I came across a divergent strain of Homo sapien that [...]

Coach has been changing up our warmup exercises. We used to circle up and do calisthenics before putting on the gloves. Sometime last week, he decided it would be more fun to just drop the pretense and slaughter us outright, so we’ve been doing a circuit course with a range of different (vicious) exercises. One [...]

Kinda late, but here we are. The second day of nursing orientation was also cool, but a bit less intense. Hendrick provided breakfast, lunch, and bags of goodies while they dangled student loan forgiveness programs and shift differentials in front of my dazzled face. We also got to play on the computers. The instructors walked [...]