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I just found this in my school e-mail inbox, from the student body president: Briefly in other news, I’d like to announce the November student of the Month. Congratulations to Ruth R! Ruth is graduating in a few days and we’re glad we could recognize her before she leaves us. Here are a couple of [...]

I just dropped in at MySpace for the first time in months, and rediscovered this old post there. It made me smile, so I thought I’d copy it over here, since I haven’t written anything recently. Senior Year Survey Fill this out about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the [...]

I’ve spent the past 3 1/2 years attending nursing school in downtown Portland, competing for parking with the hospital and numerous medical complexes, shopping district, restaurants and coffee shops, local residents, and of course my fellow students. I’ve gotten pretty good at parallel parking as a result, but this morning I accomplished a parking feat [...]

A long day at practicum… I decide to ignore the huge writing assignment looming over me and spend the evening goofing off. I’ve been trying to learn how to knit socks. It’s a coping mechanism for dealing with my ever-advancing case of senioritis. I pull out my sock project and the cryptic unillustrated completely impossible [...]

Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse I won’t be the first nurse in my family. Great Aunt Hilda, on my mom’s side, was a nurse (shown here in her graduation photo), and so was Grandma Edwards, on my dad‘s side. My cousin Deb (on my mom’s side) is also a nurse. My brother Jon is a doctor. [...]