Random forwards...

Somehow I ended up on all these random internet mailing lists, and sometimes what comes from them is pretty bad and other times it really makes sense. I thought this one was good considering how "under the dirt," I've been lately.

One day a farmer's donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. Realizing what was happening, the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then, a few shovelfuls later, he quieted down completely. The farmer peered down into the well, and was astounded by what he saw. With every shovelful of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off, to the shock and astonishment of all the neighbors!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to not let it bury you, but to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.

Also, the donkey kicked the hell out of the guy that tried to bury him. Which brings me to another moral for this story: When you try to CYA, it always comes back and gets you.

Heat makes people...CRAZY!!!!!

The average high in houston over the past week has been in the high 90's, which must be the plausible explanation for the recent correspondence I received from my nursing school of attendance. I get a letter from them yesterday, and I'm assuming that it's some sort of information regarding my graduation on February 25th. Well, of course nothing is ever really what you expect it to be when it comes from the school, and this was no exception. I open it up with bated breath assuming it's going to be something great about graduation and that sort of thing only to find the insanity continues. It's a letter regarding the advising process. Now, why would someone who only has two quarters left, and they are basically already laid out need an advisor? So I take a breath and think okay, no biggie. Then I start looking at the advisors they have listed at the bottom of the letter. Out of the six potential advisors there are five that I've had classes from.

As you've probably already guessed...they assigned me to the one person that I have never had any type of interaction with in my entire life. Now, what is the rationale behind that? I understand that my original faculty advisor is gone, but why wouldn't you assign me to someone whom I've actually had some sort of interaction with before? Why would you choose the only individual that I've never actually had ANYTHING to do with? It has to be the heat....that makes people CRAZY. Obviously, right?

Hmmmm.....

I'm not sure if this is laziness to the extreme or what, but since I've been so bad at keeping up with everyone and telling everyone what is going on I thought I'd start here. I am currently three weeks away from finishing my psychiatric nursing class, and let me just say that after it is all over I might need some psychiatric care myself. It's been an "interesting" class to say the least, but wow...it shouldn't be required. Today was mind-numbing as one of my classmates and I spent the entire day watching adolescents and trying to find something to do to make it worth our time being there. Needless to say we ended up sneaking a peek at "inked" on A&E while all the kids were in some meeting. Lovely huh ?? I guess I should fill all of you in on the whole "lovely" comment, but that will have to be a story for another day. Mili will know what I'm talking about. Anyways, this isn't very much or very informative right now, but it's a starting point and I just wanted to let everyone know that I've started it and hopefully it will be much easier for me to update you guys this way.