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Archive for the ‘School’ Category
Two weeks of words (of which my word processor recognises only seven)
Posted in Clinicals, School on 23 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not Sleeping in the Needles
Posted in Clinicals, School on 20 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So far, school has been contained between the hours of seven and three-thirty. This is good. It will no doubt change as we move into the full lecture schedule next week, but I have been grateful for the respite. For the time to go slowly, absorbing my surroundings.
There is a church in need of a [...]
First Day
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, School on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first Monday morning. I am awake more than early enough, just a little nervous. The hospital is just a short walk from the apartment so there should be no worries about being late. I know where the room is, deep in the basement, around three corners, past one corridor of laundry carts taller than [...]
Better When Less Medicated (and why can’t we just call it “H” ?)
Posted in School, tagged School on 8 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of spring allergies/laryngitis I have strep. It is just the way I remember it from elementary school – painful.
This is making it difficult to learn the things I am supposed to be learning in Immunohematology. (Yes, a eight syllable word for blood-banking.) Tonight, I’m looking at four different nomenclature systems for the same set [...]
This Week in my World: Small Moments
Posted in Growing, Overheard, School, Small Moments, tagged Growing, Overheard, Small Moments on 1 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A conference at which the sessions I thought would be intriguing were close to horrible and the sessions I thought would be unbearable were amazing.
On lunch break from said conference, walking through the city. It was overcast, but not cold. Four blocks east, two blocks north, four blocks back west, two blocks south. The most [...]
Overheard: In The Lab
Posted in Overheard, School, Small Moments, tagged Overheard, School, Small Moments on 20 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Classmate: Do you really think I can write this research paper?
Me: Today?
(pause)
Classmate: While being on facebook and listening to music?
Headline Writing: Also an Important Skill
Posted in School, reading on 7 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was not so much poor headline writing as poor truncation:
Beloit schools want children to read…
Well, that bolsters my faith in the Beloit school system.
Why I Love School – A Short Conversation
Posted in School, tagged Onion Rot, Parasitology, School on 28 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Classmate: Oh, yuck. We’re all eating pork.
Me: It’s not Friday, isn’t pork ok for you?
Classmate: Ever since parasitology I’ve been kind of off pork.
Me: Breakfast pork doesn’t count. Let’s talk about bacteria instead.
Classmate: I am an onion. What kind of Burkholderia should I be afraid of?
Random Observations
Posted in School, Thankfulness, tagged Thankfulness on 11 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1. Having more than one set of kitchen tongs is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Strange, but true.
2. Starting at 2 PM tomorrow, I am on Spring Break.
3. Sometimes, exams are really awful.
4. On those awful exam days, it is really exciting to find gluten-free beer in the back [...]
Blink
Posted in Growing, School, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Parenting, School, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 4 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two weeks from today I will be finishing my spring break trip out east and turning around to head home. Already. One week from today is halfway day. I blinked and the term is nearly half over.
I tried to pay attention today. I listened. I watched. And still, I blinked and missed things that were [...]
