Monday she has a job interview, and this could be promising. It's an organization called People Inc. The have their hands in a lot of things, but what we're hoping for is a visiting nurse type job. TOYH has a former colleague from ACR Homes, Christy, who works at People Inc as a nurse and is always telling TOYH how much she loves her job. People Inc was very impressed with Christy's experience at ACR and they sounded very interested in hiring another former ACR employee. As well they should be. TOYH would be an outstanding employee. She probably won't be getting into the work that she'd really like to be doing, namely working with at risk teens and young mothers. But hey, it's a start and it's in community nursing, rather than being a wage monkey on a hospital floor. (Not that there's anything wrong with being a wage monkey. I've done it for years. If you know TOYH, you'd understand that shift work is not her thang.)
Friday is the dreaded NCLEX, or national nursing boards. Every pre-test she's taken has indicated that she'll pass just fine, but she's sure that it will be awful and she won't do well. Sigh. I guess it's just more of the expect-the-worst-and-when-the-worst-doesn't-happen-you'll-be-pleasantly-surprised attitude. I've basically given up on trying to convince her that she's good enough and she's smart enough, and doggone it, people like her. Ok, she doesn't need to be convinced that she's well loved by everybody. Deep down she knows it, but honestly, if she can't see that then maybe she is kinda stupid. Anyway, drop her a line at tkstocking@gmail.com and tell her she'll do just fine. She doesn't read this crappy blog or the comments (I told you she's really smart), so anything left here would be unread by her. Please do it, she won't listen to her dumb-ass husband, but she'll listen to you.
Third and most important, tonight is the start of Jane Austin chick-flick extravaganza on PBS. 6 productions of her novels. As I write this, I've been relegated to the living room so that the women (except for 'Nika, it's on too late for her) can drink deeply canon of Western Literature in my bedroom watching the teevee. Dumb-asses like me aren't interested.
Commuted by bike twice last week. I'm trying to psych myself up to do it tomorrow when the temps will be hovering around 10 degrees.
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Holy smokes!! Are you going to ride to work this week? You are my hero!!
Naw, I chickened out this morning. 6 degrees + 10-15 mph headwind + hour commute = Scott skipped it today. If it's less windy tomorrow, I may try. Today I got an ice-cream headache walking back from the kid's bus stop. Biking in that would have been brutal.
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