Well.
I have started a very intense education program (think 3 years of classes and clinical experience compressed into one year) and I will have next to no time to write over the next year. I had hoped to sneak in a post here and there but I’m already just past the half-way point in my first quarter and I’ve had no time to post. And I hear that the time commitment to the program only gets worse in the next two quarters. Last week we had midterms and it felt like such a luxury to have so much free time!
Every so often people find their way to this blog through my posts about microbiology and I get questions about microbes. If you are one of those people with questions, please understand that I will not be available over the next year to entertain any questions on the subject.
I might be able to post on a few of the breaks we have. Just some brief updates on projects I might have worked on during the term. I haven’t picked up knitting needles in more than a month, but I have made some jewelry. I made my first project with wire last Friday as a treat for getting through midterms. It was a necklace, and I want to make matching earrings. Here’s my first wire-wrapped bead link!
And for those who come here for my sparkling wit, everything in the program is going well. So far my lowest grade on a test has been a 90. In a few weeks we have to check out of our labs and clinicals and since that is a performance evaluation that is a bit unnerving.
Speaking of clinical, I need to get a move on and get ready for my session today. I sort of pulled a short straw and got assigned to the only clinical that is an afternoon/evening clinical. I kind of like it because I get to sleep in every other Wednesday morning, after Tuesday which is our long day (classes start at 8:00 AM and the day is pretty much booked solid through about 7:00 PM). But I get home at about 10:00 PM tonight and we need to be back in class at 8:00 AM tomorrow. At least Thursday is a “short” day – class ends at 12:20 PM but usually we have (optional but highly-recommended-to-the-point-of-being-mandatory) review sessions in the afternoon. So overall, I’m glad to have the afternoon/evening clinical.
