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some random unconnected things
Feb. 22nd, 2010 10:38 pm- I've gotten back into reading medical blogs lately, and it's getting me kind of excited to get back to classes at the end of March. Don't get me wrong -- this break has been wonderful, and I think I really needed it. If I'd stayed at the Rock Creek campus, I'd probably have a nice case of burnout and/or complete mental breakdown right about now. But reading about health care and medicine and nursing is making me really look forward to getting my prereqs finished, and I think that's probably a good sign. Even with this break, it looks like I'm still on track to apply to my accelerated Master's program in the fall, and to the year-long accelerated bachelor's program next January. I haven't decided which is the better option*, so I'm going to apply for both until I'm hit by a lightning bolt of inspiration or I manage to land a scholarship of some sort, whichever comes first**.
- I really want to find a vampire squid plushie. I don't entirely know why, except that vampire squids are so damn cute (what with their flappy little wing thingies and their webbed arms and ginormous eyes and whatnot). I'd track down a knitting pattern for one if I thought I would ever finish it, but it turns out that I am the slowest goddamn knitter in the universe. The poor thing would probably sit half-finished on the needles while I worked on other, far more pressing projects, and that would make me and the half-knitted squid very sad indeed.
- Tomorrow is my two-year anniversary! Yay! Since we both have to work, I'm trying to get Friday off so we can have a full day together. We haven't had one since around New Year, so I'm really looking forward to it. ♥
- I keep buying zombie fiction anthologies! Like, I go to Powell's to buy something else entirely, and then walk out with the something else AND a zombie anthology. It's getting kind of ridiculous. I tried to balance things out last time around by getting a vampire anthology as well, but so far I'm not that crazy about the vampire stories and can't help but wish I'd bought the second of the two zombie anthologies I was considering. Perhaps on my next Powell's trip -- I've been counting down the days until The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms hits bookstores and I've been meaning to pick up The Mermaid's Madness for a while now, so that would be the perfect time to add yet another collection of zombie fiction to my shelves. *nodnod* I think I might have a problem.
- I really wish the creative people I admire and look up to would stop being assholes. I accept that no one is perfect, and even the people who normally get things right occasionally slip up and say or do things that are offensive and hurtful. But when people do slip up? I wish they would apologize, I wish they would mean it, and I wish they would learn from it. None of this "I'm sorry you were offended" bullshit or claiming that it wasn't your intent to hurt anyone, and that anyway, art is supposed to make people uncomfortable. News flash: if you are co-opting the voices of marginalized, disenfranchised groups and appropriating their experiences in such a way that you are further marginalizing and disenfranchising them? If the people you are making uncomfortable are not those in the majority -- that is, the ones who have historically participated in and are responsible for the marginalization, abuse, and erasure -- but are, in fact, the people who are already being marginalized? THEN YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I felt this way about a lot of authors/editors after RaceFail last year, and this recent dust-up regarding the Evelyn Evelyn project is pretty much the last straw in a whole heap of straws where Amanda Palmer is concerned. Blergh.
- A fried pie sounds so delicious right about now.
* Master's program: takes three years and I'm confined to psych, and I've heard some horror stories about how little clinical time you get at OHSU, but I'll be able to work as an RN once I get halfway through the program and I'll finish the whole thing out with a fucking MASTER'S DEGREE. ROCK ON. On the other hand, Linfield's bachelor's program will get me a bachelor's degree and nothing more...but it will only take me a year, I'll get a fuckton of clinical time, and I can pursue something other than pysch if I wish. DECISIONS!
** Price, oddly enough, is not something I'm really taking into consideration. This is because both programs are REALLY FUCKING EXPENSIVE, and I'm going to be up to my ears in student loans for a wee bit no matter which way I go. :(
- I really want to find a vampire squid plushie. I don't entirely know why, except that vampire squids are so damn cute (what with their flappy little wing thingies and their webbed arms and ginormous eyes and whatnot). I'd track down a knitting pattern for one if I thought I would ever finish it, but it turns out that I am the slowest goddamn knitter in the universe. The poor thing would probably sit half-finished on the needles while I worked on other, far more pressing projects, and that would make me and the half-knitted squid very sad indeed.
- Tomorrow is my two-year anniversary! Yay! Since we both have to work, I'm trying to get Friday off so we can have a full day together. We haven't had one since around New Year, so I'm really looking forward to it. ♥
- I keep buying zombie fiction anthologies! Like, I go to Powell's to buy something else entirely, and then walk out with the something else AND a zombie anthology. It's getting kind of ridiculous. I tried to balance things out last time around by getting a vampire anthology as well, but so far I'm not that crazy about the vampire stories and can't help but wish I'd bought the second of the two zombie anthologies I was considering. Perhaps on my next Powell's trip -- I've been counting down the days until The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms hits bookstores and I've been meaning to pick up The Mermaid's Madness for a while now, so that would be the perfect time to add yet another collection of zombie fiction to my shelves. *nodnod* I think I might have a problem.
- I really wish the creative people I admire and look up to would stop being assholes. I accept that no one is perfect, and even the people who normally get things right occasionally slip up and say or do things that are offensive and hurtful. But when people do slip up? I wish they would apologize, I wish they would mean it, and I wish they would learn from it. None of this "I'm sorry you were offended" bullshit or claiming that it wasn't your intent to hurt anyone, and that anyway, art is supposed to make people uncomfortable. News flash: if you are co-opting the voices of marginalized, disenfranchised groups and appropriating their experiences in such a way that you are further marginalizing and disenfranchising them? If the people you are making uncomfortable are not those in the majority -- that is, the ones who have historically participated in and are responsible for the marginalization, abuse, and erasure -- but are, in fact, the people who are already being marginalized? THEN YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. I felt this way about a lot of authors/editors after RaceFail last year, and this recent dust-up regarding the Evelyn Evelyn project is pretty much the last straw in a whole heap of straws where Amanda Palmer is concerned. Blergh.
- A fried pie sounds so delicious right about now.
* Master's program: takes three years and I'm confined to psych, and I've heard some horror stories about how little clinical time you get at OHSU, but I'll be able to work as an RN once I get halfway through the program and I'll finish the whole thing out with a fucking MASTER'S DEGREE. ROCK ON. On the other hand, Linfield's bachelor's program will get me a bachelor's degree and nothing more...but it will only take me a year, I'll get a fuckton of clinical time, and I can pursue something other than pysch if I wish. DECISIONS!
** Price, oddly enough, is not something I'm really taking into consideration. This is because both programs are REALLY FUCKING EXPENSIVE, and I'm going to be up to my ears in student loans for a wee bit no matter which way I go. :(