Find me in the room with a lot of dummies.

If you need me between January 14th - January 25th you can find me at school, most likely either poking on the mother dummies or dangling the baby dummies. Oh, and if I don't look like my usual--and currently very well rested--self, that's because my schedule for Women's Health says I have to be in the skill lab every single freaken' day for the first two weeks of school. From 8-4 pm more or less. Surrounded by dummies, some of which are talking--or crying.

I'm working on being ready for this.

In the meanwhile, I'm also crossing my fingers and toes to get my first choice for clinicals. Please please please please please let me get the Wednesday/Thursday ones....

OH! Gah, I hate my status as an International student. Hatehate. First, they still wouldn't consider me as state resident even though I've lived here for eight years and have been paying taxes. I'm still bitter about paying the international rate tuition, which is doubles in-state tuition. BITTER, I tell ya. You better bet I'm praying really hard I get the loan I very much need to pay for school. But that's another day.

Today, I found out that I may have to drop one of my online classes because as an International student, I cannot take 2 online classes in one semester. One of those online courses has to have some kind of on-campus activity such as group meeting, or face-to face time with the instructor, or taking the tests on campus, and my instructor has to fill out a form. Of course with my luck, none of the instructors was on campus today and neither was my adviser and neither was the director of the program. ashgdahsfdaghdfaghfdghafdghfd!!!!!

It's not like I purposely chose to take those online classes, they're designed that way by the program and I have to pass both before I could continue to Senior I. Granted, they might, MIGHT, offer those in the summer but even if they do, my space there isn't guaranteed. Blaaaaarrrrrghhhhh!!!!! Right now I'm waiting for an answer from the Student Life lady on campus, who's heard that perhaps if I've already met the minimum credit hours required to maintain my status (12 hrs/semester and my courses for this semester are 16 hrs.), then an additional online classes is allowed. So yeah, now I'm just waiting, but come Thursday and Friday at the new students orientations I'm volunteering at, I'll be chasing the power that be people (namely my adviser or the head of the program) to help me fix this.

And it rained as I got out of the grocery store today. It's just like that Carpenters song, the one that goes "rainy days and Mondays always get me down...." Well, today it is Monday and rainy. Bah humbug....

And so it begins....

My life as a student nurse.

Excuse the crappyness of the picture, I'm a student who had just paid her tuition, too broke to buy a camera or a new cell with better camera.

A friend asked if I have lost weight upon seeing the picture above, giving me all the more reason to wear this ensemble everywhere I go....

DUNZO!

I am D to the O, the N the E with summer school with a B to boot!

Now I have been doing little to nothing ever since school is done (have about a week of break before a string of orientations and eventually the semester) and was actually quite confused of what to do with this oh so much free time. But fear no more for I have made a to do list, which consist of:

1. Get my car an alignment service and get it inspected.

2. Clean my room, it looks like my closet flew in and exploded there. Not pretty. This brings me to number 3.

3. Fold the clean clothes, it's been in the basket for...hrrmm a week? I think....

4. Pick up a new book to read, probably My Sister's Keeper.

5. Get my friend her long overdue birthday present, which brings me to number 6.

6. Wish my other friend a belated 'Happy Birthday' (what? I was busy studying...), which brings me to number 7.

7. Get Dad's birthday present. Don't worry, I actually remembered calling him on the day. This brings me to number 8.

8. Figured out where to have a my birthday dinner--a proper one--before we go clubbing and get trashed for the night....

9. Get up early tomorrow morning to take the newly-arrived-to-the-U.S. of A cousin to see the counselor at his school. Thing reminds me of number 10.

10. Call the student life office and demand them of my I-20. Damn, I would've been rich if I had a dolla' for everytime they said "It'll be ready soon, I'll call you." Apparently their standard of 'soon' is different than mine, I thought 'soon' meant within a week or two and they thought 'soon' is 3 months and going. Bah.

11. Figured out the time and dates for my three orientations and the CPR class. Yes, they're making me go to three, go figure. One for International Students, One for new Undergraduate Nursing Students, one is for something else I couldn't remember which is why this is on the to do list. Bah Bah.

12. Pay Fall Semester tuition. BAH BAH BAH!

That is all.