Summer! (kinda)
Jun. 5th, 2012 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantsheadWe had some uncomfortably hot weather (90° at 9 in the morning) followed by a week of cool, gray, rainy days. I was glad we put in the garden when we did--a week before Memorial Day, which is a bit chancy some years because we could still have frost that late, but this year it was a gloriously warm, sunny week. All the seeds have sprouted at this point, and we've begun thinning some rows of seedlings. PoC dug out a whole new bed out back, and we expanded the bed in front of the house as well (but can't plant much in it until we get a tree cut down--that will happen next week, most likely). It's really gratifying to see the seeds come up--hopefully we'll get some good yields later in the season.
It was really nice to have a few weeks of lazing around and getting the garden going. I also updated my stamp collection (yes, I am that much of a dork) which involved learning that I might need to get a bigger magnifying glass. Seriously. We played some more games on our list of "games we own but haven't played"--most of which are older, out-of-print games. We also had a lot of visitors--people passing through on their way to summer theatre gigs, or back in NY for the summer, etc... We've felt a bit isolated during the school year because I'm so busy and PoC's schedule is so erratic, and it was nice to enjoy hosting some visitors!
I still don't have a job for the summer, which is mildly disappointing, but I'm really enjoying the relaxation. However, I know it would be good for me to get some work, so I'll keep hunting. Yesterday my summer classes started--Microbiology 2 days a week, and Pharmacology online. There are a lot of students from my school in both classes, as well as some students from the community college that is actually teaching the classes, and probably some folks who are hoping to apply to nursing school within the next year or two. The pharmacology class will be my 2nd online class, and (unlike nutrition last semester) it will involve a lot of discussion. I gather this is pretty common for online classes--you have to log in and post (and reply) a minimum of 3 times to each topic, etc... This sounds like it might get tedious, but I'm actually impressed with the depth of the discussion that has happened on one of our topics so far. We'll see how it goes!
Finally, a bit of number-crunching from the first year of nursing school (but not about grades this time): I wrote 6 pens completely out of ink. I created a stack of hand-written, college-ruled notebook pages almost 2 inches thick (mostly single-sided). Additionally, my stack of Clinical paperwork (also mostly handwritten, but some typed) is 2-3" tall! Whew!
It was really nice to have a few weeks of lazing around and getting the garden going. I also updated my stamp collection (yes, I am that much of a dork) which involved learning that I might need to get a bigger magnifying glass. Seriously. We played some more games on our list of "games we own but haven't played"--most of which are older, out-of-print games. We also had a lot of visitors--people passing through on their way to summer theatre gigs, or back in NY for the summer, etc... We've felt a bit isolated during the school year because I'm so busy and PoC's schedule is so erratic, and it was nice to enjoy hosting some visitors!
I still don't have a job for the summer, which is mildly disappointing, but I'm really enjoying the relaxation. However, I know it would be good for me to get some work, so I'll keep hunting. Yesterday my summer classes started--Microbiology 2 days a week, and Pharmacology online. There are a lot of students from my school in both classes, as well as some students from the community college that is actually teaching the classes, and probably some folks who are hoping to apply to nursing school within the next year or two. The pharmacology class will be my 2nd online class, and (unlike nutrition last semester) it will involve a lot of discussion. I gather this is pretty common for online classes--you have to log in and post (and reply) a minimum of 3 times to each topic, etc... This sounds like it might get tedious, but I'm actually impressed with the depth of the discussion that has happened on one of our topics so far. We'll see how it goes!
Finally, a bit of number-crunching from the first year of nursing school (but not about grades this time): I wrote 6 pens completely out of ink. I created a stack of hand-written, college-ruled notebook pages almost 2 inches thick (mostly single-sided). Additionally, my stack of Clinical paperwork (also mostly handwritten, but some typed) is 2-3" tall! Whew!
