Fried Day

I never enjoyed homework in elementary school. And I don't really like it now either. N always has a bunch of homework to do every night. What N hasn't figured out is that it MUST be done and the sooner the better. It's really hard waiting until bedtime to start homework.

Oh, and that applies to me, too. Except I'm not playing with friends or on the computer or Xbox. I'm working, or grocery shopping or cleaning up after the family or otherwise doing things that MUST be done. And then it's very late and I still have a bunch of homework left to do. It's not fun, it's work.

I took a nap today when I got home from school. This is the earliest day of the week for me (and good thing, I could not have made it through another 8 hour school day). I have long days Tues - Thurs. I work every Thursday night, so Friday comes up fast and I'm wiped.

We had an interesting lab today, but I didn't get as much out of it as I would have liked. We were looking into eyes with the opthalmascope. In theory, you can see the vessels in the eye. I didn't see any vessels, but I did see the red reflex, which is kind of like the 'red eye' you sometimes see in photos. I didn't get to look in my lab partner's ear, either. But in theory we were supposed to have done that. I wanted to see the tympanic membrane, which is supposed to be a nice pearly gray color. And there are landmarks which are supposed to be visualized on it, too. Oh well. Maybe when we get to the make up lab times I can actually look at these things. Weird.

I did finish my nursing philosophy paper, which is due Monday. Now I have to work on an idea for that class using the letter N to come up with a word that describes nurses/nursing. The obvious one is Nurturing. I am more inclined to go with kNowledgeable but I'm not sure I can sell it as an "N" word. This is for a project that is due at the end of the term, but my partners and I want to get it out of the way asap.

I took one test today, too. It was in Fundamentals of Nursing. Most of it I can do without thinking about it too much, but then sometimes I have to step back and wonder what is the correct answer. It was open book, and because of this, I could look up what the text said, which made it more of a teaching tool than a test. I liked it this way, but then I have a harder time accepting the ones I missed. Maybe I needed to look up every answer and make sure that I got them right? I didn't do this because it was just too much work for me today. And the whole thing of second guessing can really get overwhelming. I need to have a little confidence in myself, right?

Speaking of that, I got a call from a past client this week and it was so nice to have someone ask me something and listen to what I said. It's so far out of the role of what we do in class all week. My confidence level plummets during the week because we are always doing things I have no experience with and I'm not good at yet. Then when the call came it reminded me that I do have some value. There are some things I do know something about. :-)