I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in the Pacific NW USA with my husband and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
Archive for June, 2007
Why I Love My Job
One of the things I love most about my job is that you just never know what is going to happen next. It’s never boring! Here’s just one small example of what I mean. The setting: The geropsych unit where I work, in “Fred’s” room, where he’s just waked up and I’m helping him dress [...]
Posted: June 25th, 2007 under Nursing, Parallel Universes.
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Plagiarism Saga Concluded
Amidst much continued protesting of “we didn’t know” and “it didn’t say it was copyrighted” and “everybody else does it,” (not to mention the references to how “rude” my friends and I were for complaining — stealing people’s work is what’s rude!) and “we don’t make any profit” when there are ads all over the [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under Indignancies.
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Plagiarism Update
The flurry of e-mails (thank you!) generated by my previous message about WackyWits.com’s use of one of my dad‘s original cartoons finally prompted a response: We have had an e-mail from your daughter re a page done a long while ago. She has said we used one of your pictures. This picture was freely available [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2007 under Indignancies.
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Help Me Fight Plagiarism
This Sandi V. woman runs a for-profit humor website called “WackyWits.com,” and a Yahoo! mailing list called “Thingos.” On her site, she has a six-paragraph page about copyright infringement, with numerous links to the US Copyright code. Yet this image, which she claims ownership of, contains an original cartoon that my dad created, which was [...]
Posted: June 21st, 2007 under Indignancies.
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Me and My Girl
Me and My Girl Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse. I have the bestest daughter in the whole world. Isn’t she pretty?
Posted: June 10th, 2007 under My Life.
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