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Nursing School week 3/ #14
Nov. 30th, 2012 06:30 pm[Thanksgiving Week doesn't get a number in this accounting of weeks, in case you were curious. Though as I mentioned a while ago, the inconsistent numbering of weeks has made our online learning site a little confusing.]
We had a really nice Thanksgiving! PoC's mother, sister, brother-in-law, and niece were here from Wednesday through Sunday. The weather was beautiful on Thursday, but did get progressively wetter and colder by Sunday. We mostly ate food and played games, as predicted. It was nice to host them--they haven't been out here since 2008 when we first bought the house--and generally pretty stress-free! I didn't even try to get any homework done! I did do a lot of dishes (much as we love PoC's mother, she's terrible at doing dishes. The easiest way around this was for me to just say that I would be doing all of them).
The only downside to Thanksgiving week was that I had no voice for Sunday - Tuesday, and it was pretty rough on Wednesday, even. The sinus infection tried really hard to take root, but ultimately failed, and the bronchitis attempt also finally petered out. Now I just have the lingering quasi-asthmatic-wheeze that drags on me for weeks after I have any type of cold. So, it was indeed fortunate that we had no classes all week long (and especially not Clinical, which I would have had to miss).
After the family left on Sunday morning, I did a lot of laundry and cleaned the house, and then finally ran out of ways to procrastinate and got back to doing homework. I was back in OB clinical this week on Tuesday and Wednesday (more on this in a week or two), and we have our last big write-up and assessment packet due now. Theoretically it was due this morning (Friday) but our instructor knew we all had an exam in Mental Health on Thursday and an exam--followed by more lecture for the rest of the class period--in OB on Friday. Sooo, because she's super-nice (and possibly more sympathetic than she really should be!) we don't have to turn all of that in until Monday morning. I'm really grateful for this, because I've been wiped out all well--probably the residual cold combined with recovery from the holiday flurry. So, I just focused on studying for the exams (which both went well) and I'll get all the rest of it done this weekend.
We also had to register for the Spring semester this week--if all goes well, this will be the final semester for everyone in my class! Our numbers have been cut almost exactly in half from when we started school in August of 2011...
We had a really nice Thanksgiving! PoC's mother, sister, brother-in-law, and niece were here from Wednesday through Sunday. The weather was beautiful on Thursday, but did get progressively wetter and colder by Sunday. We mostly ate food and played games, as predicted. It was nice to host them--they haven't been out here since 2008 when we first bought the house--and generally pretty stress-free! I didn't even try to get any homework done! I did do a lot of dishes (much as we love PoC's mother, she's terrible at doing dishes. The easiest way around this was for me to just say that I would be doing all of them).
The only downside to Thanksgiving week was that I had no voice for Sunday - Tuesday, and it was pretty rough on Wednesday, even. The sinus infection tried really hard to take root, but ultimately failed, and the bronchitis attempt also finally petered out. Now I just have the lingering quasi-asthmatic-wheeze that drags on me for weeks after I have any type of cold. So, it was indeed fortunate that we had no classes all week long (and especially not Clinical, which I would have had to miss).
After the family left on Sunday morning, I did a lot of laundry and cleaned the house, and then finally ran out of ways to procrastinate and got back to doing homework. I was back in OB clinical this week on Tuesday and Wednesday (more on this in a week or two), and we have our last big write-up and assessment packet due now. Theoretically it was due this morning (Friday) but our instructor knew we all had an exam in Mental Health on Thursday and an exam--followed by more lecture for the rest of the class period--in OB on Friday. Sooo, because she's super-nice (and possibly more sympathetic than she really should be!) we don't have to turn all of that in until Monday morning. I'm really grateful for this, because I've been wiped out all well--probably the residual cold combined with recovery from the holiday flurry. So, I just focused on studying for the exams (which both went well) and I'll get all the rest of it done this weekend.
We also had to register for the Spring semester this week--if all goes well, this will be the final semester for everyone in my class! Our numbers have been cut almost exactly in half from when we started school in August of 2011...
