procrastination is the name of the game

STATUS:
Mood: Stressed
Listening: Some random country songs my roommate is playing
Watching: Time to watch TV? You must be joking!
Reading: Child Health Nursing by Ball & Bindler (yes, that would be my nursing textbook)

Well, I decided that to cure my procrastination, I needed to go ahead and write something in my blog, which I have been procrastinating on myself. What a crazy semester it has been. I can hardly believe that it is already November. Of course that also means that all of my projects that were due "way off in November" are now looming ever so close... Yikes!

Things are going well here at Purdue. As I mentioned, I have many a project plus a few tests coming up, so if I look like I'm pulling my hair out of my head, you know why. Of course, the procrastination gets worse and worse the more I'm stressed too, hence perpetuating the cycle. Grr. Halloween was rather a bust for me this year. Didn't get a chance to go to any of the parties or out to celebrate like I wanted to, but you'd have to take that up with my nursing professors.

Speaking of nursing, I think I've finally found my calling! Pediatrics. Well, okay, I love OB too, but Peds is now my first choice. I loved working with the kiddos this semester in my peds clinical. It's the one part of the hospital that isn't so completely sterile and unwelcoming. I mean, how can you not smile just a little bit when you see Spongebob balloons in their room? It's very sad that the kiddos have to be in the hospital undergoing tests that not even most adults can stand, and for that, I have to give my hats off to them. Here's to the kids that endure our diagnostic tests and treatments and yet act like they've just got a minor inconvenience. No "pity me, I'm sick," but rather, "when can I go play?" Gotta just love em. Hopefully U of M or Beaumont or somewhere else there up in MI will give me a job to pursue my newfound love for working with kids & their families. Searching for a job, now that's starting to make me a little nervous... Even though it is my 5th year here (hey, super seniors do it better!) I still have a hard time imagining being graduated and out in the "real world." Yikes. But, it will be nice not to have to write any more care plans or annotated bibliographies for the research article happy profs here, that's for sure!

Well, must go do more work, and stop procrastinating! I can do it, I know I can!
Loves,
Nurse Nitz

admitted to the world of blogs

Buenas noches everyone. It seems that I am the last of my friends to pick up on the new trend of entering into the world of blog-dom. So in the spirit of being the "follower" that I am, I decided to create a little place for myself to insert my own two cents... take it or leave it. I have never been a huge fan of online journals myself, and frankly, I have never been able to keep my own journal current, but we will see if I can make worthwhile contributions or at least ramblings that make some sense to the random readers who happen to stumble upon my little blog. Now I must go and publish this to see how silly it looks to you, my reader.

Vital signs stable. Pt. offers no complaints (c/o's) at this time.