Category Archives: Indignancies

To celebrate having survived finals week, I am taking the entire day off and doing absolutely NOTHING productive. Okay, other than taking the two dogs and three cats to the vet to have their badly out-of-date shots updated. And throwing the occasional log on the fire so I don’t freeze… and going to work tonight at 7. But other than that, NOTHING. My first useless task was to actually read some of the news headlines that show up on my Google homepage when I start Firefox (my browser of choice). … Continue reading →

My first year of nursing school is nearly at an end; finals week is all that’s left. My final assignment in one course was to write a self-evaluation that included a section on my concept of the professional role of a nurse, and the values of accountability, responsibility, and professionalism. The day before I wrote my essay, I had witnessed an incident in the long-term care facility where I was doing clinicals that both saddened and infuriated me. Most of the staff there are wonderful people who really and truly … Continue reading →

In case you have been wondering where ToastyFrog has been for the past couple of days, we were victimized by Verizon and friends. Again. Greystork, who generously hosts my blog because my webserver is too ancient to properly handle it and I’m too busy studying to learn to use Apache so I can build myself a new one, is switching his DSL service from Verizon to SpeakEasy. Neither of whom, apparently, can read a calendar. First, Verizon disconnected his service a day early. So he waited patiently (which, to tell … Continue reading →