Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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General exhaustion
So, I think I’m going to blame it on the night shifts; that and the allergy season which appears to have kicked off in spectacular style this year. But whatever the reason I’m knackered today. Completely cream-crackered. I had hoped to get *lots* done today, but have largely abandoned it in favour of watching Sense8…
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Caution – post nights rambling ahead.
Yes, yes, as usual caveat reader – I’ve been awake (bar a 2 hour lie down during which I vaguely slept) for around 35 hours. Aren’t nights fun. Oh, no, they suck. Anyhow, there was a bit of angst yesterday – well, the night before. The licensure office in WA sent an e-mail saying (very…
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Click-click-grck.
So, good news first: The Transcripts are away. Cardiff and UWE have sent my transcripts to the states to be analysed by a process of analysis which should allow them to say yay (or indeed nay) to me taking the NCLEX. I’ve continued to practice NCLEX type questions and am improving too. The important statement…
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It’s not the nights per-se
It’s not that I dislike nights, exactly, for themselves. The actual experience of running the department at night is way better, in many regards, than running it during the day. No politics, or at least, far fewer politics. The actual shift itself is often pretty good. The problem is, of course, the unutterable harm it…
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Flurry
Today has been a flurry of activity. My frustration with the current state of affairs; namely waiting for other people to do things. Like, for example, waiting for my universities to send forms to the US. Waiting for the embassy to process our application. Things I have no control over and am entirely dependent on…
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Let me just take a moment to share
Let me take a moment to remind you just how crappy nights are. I am at work today, having had yesterday off, having finished nights on Wednesday morning. So: Work night – ‘day off’ (where I worked the first 7 hours of the day), rest day, and notionally today I ‘should’ be back to a…
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Confidence destroyer
So I started working on the NCLEX. This is an exam that I need to pass, if they’ll let me take it, to register in the US. And immediately it became apparent that I’d need to study. Some of it comes down to the phrasing of the questions. Some of it comes down to the…
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Yesterday the realisation landed
I’ve known for a while, on an intellectual level that we would get the house ‘finished’ and sell it. As in, as the paint’s drying the the “For Sale” board will go up outside (assuming plan=successful). However, yesterday as I was putting that first coat of paint on the door the realisation properly hit me…
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Uneven is the name of the game
I’m sure there are people in the world who are much more evenly effective in their activities. I, on the other hand, flick wildly from days where I achieve nothing (other than perhaps binge watching multiple episodes of Parks and Rec, or manage to up my dinking-on-the-internet-wasted-hours by some phenomenal amount) to days where I…
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Sooo close.
Sat on the piano is an envelope. It contains: I-130 Petition for Alien Relative G-325A Biographic Information (x2) Photos Lots and lots of trees, repurposed Payment information … … …Let’s hope they say yes. And as a side point, yes, I am terrified.