Call the FBI*

I realize when I wrote about there being yet another plan to get me out of the community college and into a Psychology and Social Behavior degree, bypassing nursing altogether, I neglected to mention I am enrolled in a class for that degree plan.  Technically it has no prerequisites other than the general ed required [...]

Filled Under: Family, School

Genius Hmongst us

I was watching Grand Torino tonight with my husband.  The movie where Clint Eastwood battles the Hmong gangstas and I had a flashback  to last week’s algebra class.  The county where I live has a heavy Asian population and after I heard this exchange I learned that even Asians can have a hard time differentiating [...]

Good news, bad news

The good news is the last two biopsies removed were nothing but ugly moles, not cancer. But since they didn’t remove all of the ugliness (only enough to biopsy), I need to get the rest of them removed. Blarg.  They need to invent a way to detect cancer without cutting things off bodies and screwing [...]

Filled Under: Family, School, Vanity

Putting the brakes on.

I’ve been on a tear since graduating from direct-entry midwifery school to get into nursing school so I could get into a grad program and rule the world become a nurse-midwife.  This meant I had to redo a lot of classes in community college I’d already done for the vocational college.  So since August, 2006 [...]

Filled Under: Family, School, Work

My Olympic Post

We were invited to a private showing of Let It Out, a short film about the Olympic spirit.  We were running late so I didn’t get a chance to survey the audience but I know a friend of Muhammad Ali was there (he was a featured interview) and I’m guessing Al Joyner was too by [...]

Filled Under: Bliss, Family, Husband