I’ve been single for a while now. It’s been weighing heavily on me this month, but I think things are about to turn the corner.
I met a girl.
She works on my floor, just a little ways down the hall. She always greets me warmly, and I find myself looking forward eagerly to my next chance to slip in and visit her for a minute or two. Seeing her always perks me up and gives me a little lift. To be honest, I probably see a little more of her than I should, but nobody’s said anything so far, so I guess it’s okay.
She’s smoking hot, and she’s got kind of a dark edge that makes me think maybe there’s some bitterness under the surface waiting to come out. She’s always sweet to me, however, and our time together is always really stimulating.
She’s got kind of an odd first name – I think maybe it’s European or something. Anyway, here’s her picture. Seeing her always puts a smile on my face:
Isn’t she beautiful?
In other news, the national licensure exam for nurses is called the NCLEX. It’s a pretty big deal, and not a cakewalk. So, to help prepare us for it, my school has some kind of connection to a testing company that’s supposed to help evaluate us and let us know where we stand. The summer semester is winding down, and we took two of those tests today. They were only 10 percent of our grade, but I was a little worried about them. (Mostly because I’ve been terribly busy with school, work, and bouts of angsty self-loathing, so I didn’t do a lot of preparation.)
The first test was RN Mental Health, and I did really well on it. I knew a lot of it from my courses this summer, of course, but there was also a lot of it that I knew from personal experience. I felt like the Slumdog Millionaire of crazy.
The other test was RN Pharmacology, which scared the hell out of me. I learned most of my pharm last semester in marathon cramming sessions. They got me through the tests, but they’re hardly conducive to long-term learning. I read every page, did every assignment and did reasonably well on every test, but drugs are slippery things – I feel like I don’t know anything. They sound alike, the side effects run together, all the details get lost and swirled. Until you start working with them directly, the names are as incomprehensible and foreign as city names in Mongolia, and it has been a long time since I looked at that stuff. So, I didn’t do as well on the pharm as I did on the mental health bit, but I am still “fairly certain to meet NCLEX-RN standards in this content area.” I can live with that, for now; the NCLEX review study group should be starting up soon, so we’ll hit it hard there.
Subject change: Music
All of my music is laden and leaden and loaded with burdens. Everything I listen to is weary with cares. Time to branch out.
I’ve never done much in the way of rap music, so I thought I’d give that a whirl. Here’s my new Pandora station, “YYYYEAAAHHHH!!!!” (You have to imagine Lil’ Jon saying it.) I was gonna call it “Pissed Off Black Guys Cussing About Women and Guns,” but that seemed a little unwieldy.
Here’s an odd thing that popped up on my station:
Someone mashed up Jay Z and Linkin Park. That is a thing.
