61/365: Forcing myself to study

I can't believe no one wants a free necklace..... :(

Anyway, I had to force myself to study tonight for a big test tomorrow because it is so incredibly boring. The goal was to study from 5 until 8, which is when the Bachelor is on but it's only 7:20 and I can't stand to look at another book already. Guess I'm calling it an early night...

55/365: Violating Mr. Bones

I grumpily arrived early to work this morning and decided to stick an empty bag of pretzels in the skeleton's mouth. In doing so, I felt completely happy and devious.

54/365: This is me tonight

First day back at the big house and I'm already overworked and dead. I don't even wanna hear "oh, well welcome to the life of a tech" one more time or i'll shin kick the ass who is telling it to me. And please don't touch me, let alone slap the back of my head. I don't know you. Not cool.

Sore heels, knees, chest and back. I'm over it.

17 weeks.

UPDATE from post #48: The go away mat....it didnt work. Just got our first solicitors with it. Bastards.

43/365: Another drive by shooting

The sky all day today was looking like mother nature was about to throw up on us. This was a pic from the drive into work this morning. But on the way home, the sky was much darker. The kind of dark that makes the green tree leaves look like they are flipped upside down with that silvery green color. I enjoy that look.

40/365: Who says this?

A crazy old-fashioned person maybe lol.
And what would there even be to steal in an old ass out-patient clinic? Maybe they can use their super strength to up and steal the x-ray machine. Or maybe they want to do away with the stool samples from the lab.

Either way, this sign made me laugh today during this boring, everything-is-going-wrong kinda day.

36/365: My weekly commute.

I drive around 300 miles a week commuting in this car.
That's 6.6 hours a week.
That's 400 minutes.
That's 24,000 seconds.

That's entirely way too long for me to be on the road dealing with so many assholes.

34/365: Brain dead

This is me....after one of the longest days ever....and a 200 question, 3 hour mock registry test, which i still managed to fail.

That's why we are starting to practice early.

I'm going to enjoy my Czechvar now.

29/365: Huh?

It's how i've been feeling lately...................

26/365: Hate it

I really really really hate studying for facial bones and the skull. There are so many little bones in your skull and face, and you need to know where to center and angle the tube on them for the xray to come out good for the dr. And on top of that, you need to know the evaluation criteria that the film must have in order to even send it to the dr or else your ass is on the line for sending a shitty image and letting the patient go when they will eventually need to come back for an additional better picture. It gets confusing when there is the same view that you would use for the skull as for the face. This isn't making any sense but ugh, i'm just really hating this last bit of positioning.

And I'm starting to feel stressed on things that I should have down by this point and I am still struggling with, like ribs, sternums, and breathing lateral T-spines....

25/365: In the break room

This weekend was pretty slow. Slow enough that we got to do some homework in the break room, and had a little more time to watch some Rambo. The end of the semester is coming up Thursday so all us students are making sure we have our papers, comps and test outs done in time. All i have left to do is my test out which i need to do in the next two days because I'm off wednesday. Maybe I'll make some more clay creatures *cough* DORK! You know it.

22/365: Venipuncture!

Today was our day to learn venipuncture for CT injections. We had to do two successful sticks on our classmates after a practice run on this dummy arm. It wasn't anything close to the real thing, but it helped me to learn my technique so I knew what to do and wasn't killing my partner during the real thing. Surprisingly, it's not all that hard. I just had to overcome my fear of hurting the patient. Me getting stuck twice on the other hand, OUCH! And I didn't pass out so that's always good.

21/365: Pedometer

So i got this cheesy-ass pedometer in a box of Pops cereal. And its funny because i was just thinking about how i'd like to get one to see how many steps i take a day, if i get the so called recommended 10,000 steps.

Well, unfortunately when my pedometer got to around 8500 steps, it reset to 0. At the end of the day, and a crazy day in CT at that, my new amount was 7032. So when you add 8500 and 7032 you get 15,532 steps. Yea, that's a tad bit over 10,000 I must say. No wonder I come home from work and all I want to do is sit on my ass...

13/365: My drive to work

On the days when my shift rotation is later in the morning, like 9:30, i take hwy 280 instead of 101. It's a tad bit longer, but it's much much faster moving than the 101 at that time of day. Taking 280 is definitely the scenic route, especially when I take my exit for the hospital. This is a picture soon after I merge off the highway. It's a pretty steep hill so my ears pop all the way down, but the view is fabulous. You can't see the hospital in this shot, but you can when you go down a bit farther. Yesterday was even clearer than today. It's been really gorgeous out lately :)

8/365: because Dooley's Anatomy just sounds...weird.

I thought this would be a fitting picture for the day, being as tonight is the premier of Grey's Anatomy!! It's not like i'm too excited or anything.

TiVo hasn't been checked twice to make sure it is going to record just in case i have to miss a second of the show.
I also thought it would be a good pic for the day because someone at work pointed out that i looked like Meridith Grey with my blue scrubs and new chucks :)

I'll take that as a compliment, thank you!

5/365: Back to school

I haven't touched my books, book bag, scrubs, or anything else related to work for over a week, until now. Break is over and it's back to school, and i am exhausted. And it's only been our first day back! There's only 25 weeks till graduation and it's finally hitting me that this is the year I will be done with school forever and will finally get to make a living doing something I really love doing. Night review starts next month and I couldn't be more happy.

So here's to cracking those books with 6 months left to go! Breathe.