clear blue december

It's cold now. Most of the leaves are in the street now, and the rain has stopped, but I think there's no point in having cold without snow.

Why do they call the week before finals "dead week"? It's never stopped my professors from assigning stuff, me spending ridiculous amounts of time in my books, and generally wishing I didn't have to drag myself out of bed at the crack of early. Wait... maybe that last one is the reason. I think they should call it "undead week." Everyone looks like zombies, and I'm pretty sure they gave up bathing and sleeping.

I got my nursing school schedule. I'm leaning to the right on the terrified/excited scale right now. I'm quitting my job tomorrow to spend the holidays with family before the hard work begins. I can't wait. :)

World Cup draw on Friday!

stabbity stab

I got my second hepatitis B shot today. I was supposed to do it ages ago, but I thought I was afraid of needles, so I "forgot" on purpose. Then I found out that I definitely had to have it for nursing school, and the flu shot got me over my residual childhood needle issues, so I'm back on track.

Ha. So, they're regularly out of the hep B vaccine at work, but they had it in today. It was the proper needles they were out of. The nurse found a 22-gauge needle.

It's big.

Bigger than they usually use.

The nurse told me not to look at it. The medication aide couldn't tear his eyes away. She loaded the syringe and shanked me in the left deltoid.

It wasn't that bad... or maybe I was just playing tough for the med aide's benefit.

That doesn't mean I didn't guilt-trip her for the rest of the shift, just for fun.

the doomsday clock is ticking

Old people say weird stuff.

On Friday (the 13th), I walked into a lady's room to check on her. She was curled up in her armchair and her eyes were wide. She was staring intensely at the bathroom door.

Me: "Hi! What are you doing?"
Her: WAITING FOR ARMAGEDDON
Me: "Oh... is that supposed to happen today?"
Her: I HOPE SO

Guess it didn't happen.