Friday, May 15, 2009

Holistic nursing and crazy people talking to themselves

Considering the person as a whole: mind, body and ...something else. Well, since so many people ignorantly believe they have an invisible, non-tangible, indefinable "spirit," I have to consider that their desire to pray may help them feel better. Why not just talk out loud to yourself? If anyone says you're crazy, just tell them you were talking to your son/daughter/significant other on the phone. Maybe that's how the whole thing started...?

20 years ago, when you walked down the street and saw someone talking out loud with nobody nearby, you suspected there was something not quite right about that person. Now, they are probably talking on their blue-tooth cell phone. Crazy, huh? Those ear-pieces are getting smaller by the day. Next year they will have a model that is so tiny, you won't be able to see it on the person, the only problem is that the transmission of the message is some what garbled; the voice pick-up needs some work. I'm just making this stuff up, but you can see where those wireless transceivers are going. How many times have you been walking along, quietly minding your own business and someone passing you says "Hello!"? You turn to reply and suddenly realize they were not talking to you, but into their phone. You quickly shut your mouth before anything can escape and look beyond them and try to look like you were actually looking at something else.

It's half-way through the quarter, I am done with clinicals and feeling a little less stressed (for the moment). Since we are half-way through the quarter, I need to start cracking on the practice tests, reading and final assignments. Classes are going well so far. Things are heating up between students...I just hope I can quietly stay out of all that. I thought I would take a class or two this summer, but it looks like the economy has screwed me over for that (last summer $350 to take a 5 credit class, this summer $700!!!).

So, I get to look forward to several long weeks of no academic challenge, then start cracking the books into a quarter that would normally occur immediately after this one. I need to find something to keep my brain buzzing away at top speed, sudoku is not going to cut it!