In Coffee Spoons

Have not been around due to internet kafucked. At the lab as much as possible, which will increase when fall semester begins kicking my ass in a couple of weeks.

Fall semester:

• Medical Ethics & Law
  
• Office Word Processing
  
• Medical Office Procedures
  
• Medical Records Management
  
• Medical Transcription II
  

At least all but one (Ethics & Law) is online/FLEX. I *was* looking forward to an entire semester in my pajamas, but I guess we'll see how it goes.

Enjoying limited tagging and unlimited reading on my whole entire three weeks of summer vacation. Trip to the dunes soon-ish. Mmmm sand.

Utterly unrelated:

The Rated "R" Meme
✘ comment with a character of mine. (Any game)
✘ receive three bits of trivia about their sexuality: practices, preferences, experiences, fantasies, kinks, etc.

As Kairi pointed out, the longer you put off making your big "This is what's been going on" journal update, the harder it gets. Rambling ho!

School is going...well, it's going. Just a few more weeks left and then I can start worrying about fall semester, which I have to cram a lot of credits into. At least I will no longer be laboring under a flaky teacher whose typos skew the entire course, or a flaky teacher who signs all her correspondence "Peace, love and laughter".

Redoing the outside of the house is pretty much finished. I believe. I hope. I sincerely hope. Looks good. Pics forthcoming.

Went to Mackinac with Mom and Erin, pics also forthcoming. Three guys sitting behind us on the ferry were doing the boat song, so that was stuck in my head all day. We went for the Lilac Festival, but the problem with planning a festival around nature is that nature does not always get the memo. It's been a terrible year for lilacs everywhere. Good times were had anyway. Horses, sunshine, seaside, ice cream, ridiculously expensive gift shops, good times.

Ashley and I both celebrated 25 years without fatal accidents!

( tastypics )

My fancy-ass camera makes me look like a much better photographer than I am sometimes.

Holly and I are planning a kickass party for the 4th and if you're reading this, chances are pretty damn good you're invited. As kickass as this party is going to be (it is going to be kickass), I'm really just excited to be celebrating Independence Day for the first time since I was a kid. I actually feel patriotic. Not ironically or post 9-11 bandwagony, but genuinely thrilled to see an amazing president turning our country around and making it into something to be proud of again. (President Obama, you are so invited to our party.)

Ummmmmmmm um um. That might be it. For now. I've been reading a lot but I'll save that list for its own entry. I have a lot of random pictures to post. And some memes. Later. Woo.

</rambling>

Typos.

TYPOS.

Oh wait, typos in my favour.

I've emailed her regarding the ones that have actually affected my grade. I refrained from pointing out how many times our textbook stresses the importance of accuracy.

Because, you know, it's only medical data entry.

It's not like what goes in a patient's health records has to be exact.

Not at all.

Assignment: Write about a memorable childhood event.

Here's my list of possible topics so far.

• The Great Potater Incident
  
  
• The Great Tomater Incident
  
  
• The Peanut Stuck Up My Nose
  
  
• The Day I Killed Tommy
  
  
• The Clown Who Molestered Me
  
  
• Too Many Hot Dogs
  
  
• When Momma Birthed the Halfbreed
  
  
• Daddy Became A Woman
  
  
• The Day We Shot JFK
  
  
• Taking The Entire Fist
  
  
• Killing My First Thai Hooker
  
  
• When the Dead Walked the Earth
  

Now accepting votes, alternate suggestions, and moral outrage.

Assignment: Write a letter to your instructor in which a friend or someone you know well introduces you. This sample will help us ensure that you have been placed properly in English.

( To Whom It May Concern, )

* Health Software Systems

* Medical Transcription

* Keyboarding

* Moar English Comp.

Someone please explain to me why Keyboarding is not a prerequisite for the two above it.

"The thing about computers is they're really technical." --My Software Systems professor. Oh good lord.

Me: Question one. The percutaneous transluminal--

Christian Bale: WALKING AROUND LIKE AH DAT DA DA DA DA

Me: Shhh, Mr. Bale, I'm taking a test. The percutaneous translu--

Christian Bale: OOOOOH GOOOOOOOD

Me: Not now, Mr. Bale! I am taking a test!

Christian Bale: DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TRASH YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS?

Me: Shut up!

Christian Bale: SHUT UP FOR A FUCKING SECOND ALREADY!

Me: CHRISTIAN BALE YOU STOP THIS RIGHT NOW I AM TAKING A FUCKING TEST.

Christian Bale: ...

Me: ...

Christian Bale: ...

Me: The percutaneous trans--

Christian Bale: SANTA FEEEEEEEEEEE

Me: *headdesk*



P.S. Passed the test.

"Eh."

Professor: So if an autotransfusion uses your own blood, then a homotransfusion would use...?"

Classmate: Blood from another species!

Rest of class: ...

Professor: Um. If we did that, which we never ever do, it would be called a xenotransfusion, which we would never ever do.

The best thing was how confidently that girl's hand shot up in the air. She knew she had this one.

English Comp I w/Writing Lab

What the hell why am I in this course. I wasn't able to test out of it, but was at least able to talk the advisor people out of putting me in College Reading I.

Me: I've taken advanced literature courses here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but without the prerequisites I don't know h--

Me: I was an editorial assistant at the literary journal here.

Advisor: I see that in your records, but you aren't sup-

Other Advisor: Are you having trouble finding the code to override prerequisites? Cause it's this one. Right here. *click*

Intro to Computers

What why the hell am I in this course. Not only am I in it, but the online course filled up really quickly and so I'm stuck taking the in-person classroom version where the professor spends three hours talking about how to use Windows Vista and I spend three hours improving my chess game on Facebook. Things we covered in the first class:

• Starting your computer
  
• Logging on with your student ID
  
• Opening and navigating Blackboard
  
• Buying and using a USB drive
  
• Better control of the center by bringing bishops into play earlier
  

Intro to Health Software Systems

Exercept from syllabus course objectives:


Perform data quality analysis of the HI database
Understand statistical analysis of patient information and compute them
List and implement the elements of the UHD Data Set
Organize data elements in an MP Data Index


I am enrolled in this and in Intro to Computers simultaneously. Seriously.

Medical Terminology

This one is actually interesting in that "I am a tremendous nerd" kind of way; it's about memorizing roots, prefixes, and suffixes to translate individual terms. Yeah, I really am a nerd.

And as I mentioned on Facebook, I already know a ridiculous amount of this stuff thanks to television. (Actually, for all its raging inaccuracy, House is a good show if you just need hunks of medical jargon to translate for practice.


Since the majority of these are online and two of them are like the college equivalent of macaroni art, I want to try and add another course. There might be room in Accounting With Quickbooks, aka Spreadsheets Motherfucker.

1. Explore my personal philosophy.

2. Learn more about philosophy.

3. Never stop learning.

4. Get my certification as a medical clerk.

5. Have an excellent semester.

6. Become a better writer.

7. Write every day.

8. Write ten poems.

9. Post 43 of my favourite poems.

10. Own a bookstore.

11. Read 100 books.

12. Read more classics.

13. Be more creative.

14. Learn how to draw.

15. Learn how to paint.

16. Make a collage.

17. Post 43 of my favourite works of art.

18. Learn more about art history.

19. Learn more about music.

20. Listen to more classical music.

21. Post 43 of my favourite song lyrics.

22. Make a short film.

23. Make an indie horror film.

24. Watch more art films.

25. Watch more foreign films.

26. Learn French.

27. Learn Welsh.

28. Learn Japanese.

29. Travel the world.

30. Become a fabulous cook.

31. Try new recipes.

32. Explore new flavours of tea.

33. Lose 55 pounds.

34. Eat healthier.

35. Eat more fruits and vegetables.

36. Exercise daily.

37. Do my yoga and meditation every day.

38. Stop pulling my hair.

39. Stop picking my skin.

40. Cleanse my face every morning and night.

41. Be unapologetically listy.

42. List 43 men I wouldn't kick outta bed.

43. List 43 women I wouldn't kick outta bed.

@ 43things.com

Hey, actual stuff is happening in my life. I think actual events in my life comprise about two percent of this journal.

I finally got a job doing one-hour photo at Rite Aid. I'm not getting much time in at all, but it took me so goddamn long just to get this. And as I understand it, Barack Obama is going to give us all a six-figure job and a tub of prescription medications upon inaugaration.

Things I have processed photos of:

* Newborn puppies
* Homely children
* Republican National Convention
* Dead deer
* My thumbs

I'm also back in school, or will be starting in January, for a two-semester CMC course. CMC stands for Certified Medical Clerk, but I plan to make up much more interesting answers for conversation. Medical Terminology class + Medical Ethics & Law class = Dr. Gregory House v2.0.

Last but not least, my goddamn meds quit working. Well, sort of. The beneficial effects stopped, and the side effects kicked in full force. Awesome. My GP offered to add Zyprexa to my meds, which would be combining an antidepressant, an anticonvulsant, and an antipsychotic. My GP is a GP for a reason. Time to find a psychiatrist.

Further bulletins as events warrant. (That is probably a well-intentioned lie.)

Shut up. About. Your damn. Kids.

Every single one of the twelve of you, shut up shut up shut up.

Post something, anything, fucking anything that is not about your kids. Just once.

There is a thread on our discussion board for chattering about every family anecdote ever. Use it. Keep every family anecdote ever off the fucking seminar discussion board where I am obligated to read every single post.

Isn't it amazing that so many of your kids have ADHD and isn't that some kind of psychology thing and doesn't your toddler come up with the most precious insights and doesn't that just say so much about early development and isn't behavior modification like rewarding kids for doing chores shut UP.

Can you seriously not discuss any topic except via your children? Has motherhood seriously narrowed your worldview so much that you can only relate to anything through that lens? Is a subject this fucking fascinating irrelevant to you if it doesn't filter through that lens?

No, don't answer those questions. Don't. Just shut up.

Signed up for two online courses to keep my brain oiled-- a fiction workshop, because it's definitely my weakest point in writing, and beginner's Welsh.

My Welsh is already off to a great start.

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod.