Stream of consciousness | 16 days

Two weeks and two days until the end of the semester!

(am I counting down every day? Why, yes.)

The work left:

• One regular exam
• Two ATI exams (for these, I have to write three bullet points of information about each question I get wrong, and submit them to my school)
• Two final exams
• Two group presentations
• Twenty-one hours of sitting in an auditorium listening to presentations
• A third-semester orientation (can you believe I’m almost already in third semester??)
• One convocation

I’m actually dreading the hours in an auditorium more than I am the five exams! I am going to be feeling very twitchy by the time all of those are over.

And I feel sorry for the last group that is presenting. No one in the audience is going to have any listening skills left at that point. 😉

(Luckily, my group is one of the early groups!)

I looooove babies

We knew this already, of course.

But OB has reminded me freshly. 😉

On my last day of OB clinical, there was a little baby in the nursery waiting for a test, and she started crying so OF COURSE I had to pick her up and console her.

She stopped crying and went to sleep and my heart melted.

My baby-soothing skills are still on point even though my youngest baby is 18. 😉

I am so glad I’m learning Spanish

The rural hospital where I’ve been doing OB has a pretty high percentage of patients who mainly speak Spanish, and I was able to see how the nurses use even rudimentary Spanish skills to communicate with the patients.

Sometimes when I’m doing Duolingo, I think, “Ugh, it’s gonna take me so long to get good at this.” and I almost feel like, “What’s the point in trying?”

But even being able to put together some broken sentences in Spanish and do a little explaining is helpful to patients!

So, that was encouraging to me. I’m not gonna be fluent by the time I graduate, but I’ll know a little, and a little is better than none.

Someone is keeping me company while I write this post

If I had known I was going to have a desk cat, I would have chosen a larger desk. Sometimes it’s hard to have room for both her and my keyboard/mouse. 😉

Which is why she sits directly on my keyboard sometimes.

(Shelley is currently downstairs happily cuddling with Zoe. Chiquita follows me around everywhere; Shelley is velcroed to Zoe.)

“I saw a skeleton on my walk today.”

I said this last night to Zoe at dinner and she was like, “WHATTTTT”.

And then I realized I should have clarified…a small animal (not a person) skeleton. Maybe a raccoon (that’s what google suggested when I used the photo search feature!)

In all my many hours of walking in the woods these past few years, this is the first time I’ve seen such a thing.

But anyway, poor Zoe was thinking I’d come across some kind of crime scene. Heh.

I used my carpet cleaner on my van

I have vacuumed my van plenty of times in the 12 years that I’ve owned it, of course. But I’m not sure that I have EVER cleaned the carpets.

I spilled some coffee in there on Sunday, though, so when I got home, I got out the upholstery attachment and went to work.

I went over some of those floor mats so so so many times, and still, the water was not coming back clean.

And here’s what the rinse water looked like when I poured it into the sink.

YIKES.

Perhaps I will do this again before another 12 years go by. 😉

It’s getting light so early now!

Just a few weeks ago, it was pitch black when I left for OB clinicals in the morning, and this week, the sky was starting to get light when I walked out.

Since my drive to clinical is almost an hour away, and since it’s in a rural, fewer-trees area, I got to see the sun rise on my way in this week. So beautiful!

(I did not take a picture because….I was driving. 😉 That scene will just have to live in my own brain.)

Anyway, I think it’s so wild to see how quickly the hours of daylight change when we get close to each solstice. Such massive shifts even in a week or two!

Alrighty. It’s time for me to get rolling on my day. 🙂

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