Month: November 2008 (Page 2 of 2)

Just an FYI that I removed my montage from the blog temporarily. I gave out my url to some fellow students and I don’t want the surprise lost from our presentation. The original post will be back when it’s over.

I’m also taking a joke of a class on Leadership and Management. Seriously, the teacher acknowledged it. So the only assignment is a group presentation on how to handle a problem that arises in our future workplaces. I partnered up with some great students and we decided we were bored with the regular nursing problems of shift lengths, scrub policies, holiday scheduling, etc. So we found a more colorful subject. . . . for which I created this MONTAGE!

Onto Pediatrics this term, my last term before a month long winter break (wahoo!). This professor is the best we’ve had. She’s organized, to the point, smart, and funny. I’ve been assigned to work in the pediatric oncology unit of another hospital. I’m really excited for this one. I have a lot to learn about cancer and its treatments. They split us up so the 6 of us in this hospital group are assigned to three different units. I’m going to like working with just one other student. It worked well in community health. Sometimes I get the feeling the students overwhelm the staff when we’re grouped all together.

I made a sour cream apple pie this weekend and it’s heaven. I could eat the whole pie in one sitting.

I’m still waiting for the first snow so I can make waffles! I’m getting impatient.

Crafting of all kinds happened today! Amanda and I spent a lovely day in Denver. First stop was Fancy Tiger for our spinning class.

We’re showing off our first works. Amanda is some kind of spinning prodigy. Despite her wool being from an ancient biblical breed of Jacobs sheep that is supposed to be harder to work with, she made the most lovely even, thin strands! Mine is rather lumpy and bumpy but I love it anyway. Of course after the class we had to gather extra supplies from their store.

Left: our class’s roving splayed out. Right: This cute tag caught our eye.

We had thai food at Tuk Tuk on Speer. It was meh. Who thinks putting bone-in chicken in a curry is a good idea? At least the curry sauce was good. Mostly I enjoyed the company and conversation. (Summary = American school system needs major work)

Then we went to the art museum for the Houdon exhibit. The sculptures were amazingly detailed and lifelike. Amanda has a membership so we visited only the part we wanted without feeling like we had to “get our money’s worth.” A little at a time is a great way to see art. Behind the Houdon works was a demo area with modeling clay and styrofoam busts. Probably for kids, but we jumped in anyway. I had to cut Amanda off. It was obvious that this girl needs to enroll in a puppetry and mask-making work-shop (I mean for enjoyment, not for lack of talent).

Before going home we dropped by the Recycled Lamb to check out their spinning supplies. Amanda leveled-up her spindle and got a great deal on some alpaca roving. So silky!

Back in Lakewood Ben had spent the day with Carl, Nate, and Brian to make a camera out of a scanner, based on this project in Make Magazine. They put the camera together but didn’t have much success with waning daylight.

Amanda had to leave to do important grown up things. I joined the guys at Brian’s house to use his super lights that we use for movie-making. They actually got it to work.

Left: Ben and Nate review the image on his OLPC. That boxy thing in the foreground is the scanner/camera. Right: Brian poses for their first shot. Ben put his pictures up on his flickr account. I LOVE this picture of me. The lighting and striations are so cool. Plus my hair looks especially frenchy and that’s wonderful.

A few rounds of Rock Band later we’re back at my house. The Ben and Brian just went out to pick up pizza. We’re going to watch Little Shop of Horrors next. I freakin’ love Saturdays.

How do you get rid of terrible back pain? Evidently you complain about it on the internet. 4 days pain-free…

See Ben’s blog.

I just got back from the flu clinic. My eyes are heavy and tired, but I’m wide awake inside. I hate when that happens, it makes for bad napping. The clinic was awesome and I’m really glad I went. KP had themselves ultra organized. After orientation and getting flu shots ourselves I strutted out to the assigned lot and found a table full of helpful cheerful people and supplies. I probably gave 40-50 shots over four hours. No one was cranky and except for some lulls due to slow traffic directing and slow vaccine supply refills, the day went smoothly. They even gave us a 30 minute break with a minor banquet of breakfast foods.

Had a fun Halloween cooking and dressing up. We had so many great costumes! My camera battery died out before the party started, so when Ben uploads the photos from his camera I’ll post them here. I didn’t get to bed too late. I should have been able to sleep from 11:30 to 5 am, but my back hurt so badly I woke up every hour. I’ve had one sided lumbar back pain for three weeks now. Aleve and other NSAIDS aren’t kicking it. It comes and goes too. The last two days were fairly pain free but last night and this morning were agonizing. I can’t wait for it to wear off; I read that back pain usually goes away on its own in 4-6 weeks. That’s enough complaining. Hopefully I’ll get some fun pictures up here soon. Nap time!