It’s 9:30 in the morning and I panicked! I haven’t posted in more than
a month, and well, that’s just unacceptable. I have been quite
extensively distracted though…

Yesterday I did something stupid–yet amazing. I bought one of
the new G4 iBooks. SWEET! I am actually going to have a
laptop to use for school! I’m in heaven. I haven’t used a
mac in a few years. My last one was an old iMac with OS 8.6, so
it’s been a bit of work orienting myself. I’m SO happy with
everything. There were a heck of a lot of frustrating moments last
night when trying to transfer iTunes music over (all 3000 songs).
Most of the “easy ways” turned out to not work, and the hard way turned
out to be even harder than expected.

But, it’s done!

I’m really not ready for school. This year is maternity,
pediatrics and community nursing. The main problem is that I’m
really not interested in any of these topics. Oddly enough, the
only course I find interesting is the one class I’m taking that
involves the history, philosophy, politics etc. of nursing. I’m
craving a bit of theory.

I’m still on strike. It’s been about five weeks since we were
locked out. Every day on the picket line becomes increasingly
tedious. I’m getting by though, and really, who can complain
about getting paid to do nothing but stand around with a sign.

I haven’t been picketing this week though. I took the week off to
have my wisdom teeth done–something I’ve been putting off for more than
ten years. It finally came to a point in which I just couldn’t
put it off any longer. I got a big cavity in one of the teeth,
and following a few days of pain–all four wisdom teeth were
removed. There’s definitely been some pain, but all in all,
definitely not as bad as I expected.

The married life is good. I’ve been living with R. for more than a
month now. Lots of growing pains and adjustments. I’ve
realized just how much of a solitary creature I am. But, I’m sure
all will settle down into bliss soon. R. was away the other day,
and I felt lonely, I desperately missed him, and I couldn’t sleep
without him next to me. All feelings I’ve never felt before
(well, not in regards to just one night without him).

I have several Spira projects crashing down on me. They will all
coincide with the piling up of school assignments. So, I’m off to
start working on some of those.