Starting School Again

Well, another semester has snuck up on me.  I kinda of hate that I'm still in school sometimes (although after I graduated, I definitely was a proponent for staying in school forever) and am hopeful that someday (Summer of 2012)  I'll finally be done going back to school. The first day of class was...boring.  I managed to not fall asleep, mostly because we ended about 3 hours earlier than expected.  We moved our class into a new building, brand new constructed just for us ;)  super high tech, with our own WORKING x-ray tube....and there are not outlets built into the table for laptops.  Stupid place for SCC to cut corners in my opinion, especially since our department head specifically said that within a few years she wants it to be a requirement that students use laptops.....hmmm.  Good luck. 

   I wasn't too nervous about our first day back at clinicals...but maybe I should have been.  Let's just say it wasn't the best couple of days, on top of the fact that they tacked an extra hour onto our clinical time (who does 9-hour shifts anyway?)  I screwed up royally on a "pediatric" patient (I used the quotations because most sites wouldn't have considered them pediatric....but....) and I probably got a tech written up, for a stupid mistake.  But all-in-all after 3 weeks off, I probably shouldn't be so hard on myself.  I sure didn't kill anyone.

Here's me enjoying the snow in an igloo me and Bill-bo built

   I realized something today.....I pretty much hate winter.  I love the pretty snow, I enjoy some of the sports (especially if you consider snowmobiling a sport)  but I dislike the season.

  Here's why.  When I go to clinical in the morning....it's still dark.  When I get out of clinical in the evening....it's still dark.  So, no sun during the week = unhappiness.  Then....when I go to work on the weekends at night...it's dark.  When I get off work in the morning....it's still dark, and then I sleep through the day so that when I wake up....it's almost dark.   So, no sun during the weekend = unhappiness. One of my classmates decided that everyday when we leave, we're going to try and notice that since the days are now getting longer instead of shorter, we should try to notice the change.  I'm sure up for it.