Back To School

Yes oh yes, my 2 weeks of freedom are over and it is time to go back to school again.  Week 2 of my vacation was a lot more low key than week 1.  I had a fabulous day watching the 5 hour Pride and Prejudice with a couple of the girls (thanks for humoring me ladies), and another day we trekked to Atlantic City with some other awesome friends (we love you guys). Another night we went out to dinner downtown then walked home, adoring the fabulous weather and the gorgeous sunset.  Other than that, I read a little, worked on my scrapbook some, and completely ignored the fact that school was starting again soon.  It was very enjoyable.

Interestingly, I have to admit that I am happy to be back.  While boredom is a rare feeling these days, it's definitely not my favorite, and I knew that the sooner I started this program back up, the sooner I can be done all together and actually be a nurse.  Additionally, I have one class in particular this term that I am very excited about- Community and Public Health Nursing.  This is an area that I think I may be interested in.  It's so hard to decide exactly where I want to end up working after graduation.  One great thing about nursing is that I can change my mind if I don't find the right fit right away.  But it would be nice to have some idea about what I want to do.  I have thought for a while that this may be a good option for me.  I am excited to have to chance to do the clinical rotation and see if it really is a good fit.  

Unfortunately, I used up all my luck in the 1st 2 terms.  I got generally very close and accessible clinical sites (3 of the 4), and the 4th one ended up being okay with the help of my sweet husband and a little luck in the scheduling.  So this term I was due for some terrible ones- not terrible in terms of what they are but in terms of accessibility for me.  And I got them.  I can't complain completely.  One is completely accessible.  But the other two are really creating a pain in my neck.  In fact, the day I got my clinical assignments, I balled my eyes out like a baby for a few hours, then wrote a fuming post on here about how I hate Drexel.  I ended up deleting it because I was just being silly and letting anger dictate everything I wrote.  I know that things have a way of working themselves out, even if it makes for some inconvenience.  For now, we have settled on the idea that it's time for us to buy a car.  We had been planning on doing so in a few months anyway, after I was done with school, but with the situation being what it is, it looks like that time has come earlier than expected.  So now we're car shopping, which is kind of fun even though it's completely overwhelming and we don't really even know where to start. Yay. I know this post has been all over the place.  I'll try to write something more coherent soon, but I hadn't written in a while and figured I might as well update my blog as not.