COOL

Cool, as defined by dictionary.com is as follows: Slang for great, fine, excellent, characterized by great facility; highly skilled or clever, socially adept.
The usage of cool as a general positive epithet or interjection has been part and parcel of English slang since World War II, and has even been borrowed into other languages, such as French and German. Originally this sense is a development from a Black English usage meaning "excellent, superlative," first recorded in written English in the early 1930s.

Why do I choose such a topic to blog about. Well my friends, I have been harassed recently to update my blog and because nothing interesting has been happening in my stress filled, lives-under-a-rock nursing student life my friend Darla jokingly told me that I should blog about how cool she was. To which I replied I don't possibly have the time to explain the coolness that is Darla, but alas I will try.

I find that words are not enough to explain the awesome coolness that is Darla so I will use some visual aids to help me.

Here we see Darla at a nursing party wearing a garbage bag and lamp shade. Need I say more.


This is her coolness jumping on a VERY expensive arm chair


I am not sure what to even tell you about this other than Darla is so cool that she stuffed a squishy green chunk of plastic in her bra and paraded around the house. That screams cool!


Also at a nursing party, she brings out the always cool Walrus with licorice look!

In this visual aid, we see Darla practicing her pole dancing skills in Whistler. Can we say cool?

Here is another classic cool Darla moment shoving something down the front of her top. Oh yah! Coolness!!

Doesn't she just depict cool with her face mask and attempt at eating chocolate fondue.

And here folks, we see how cool she is by rocking the turquoise and pink mumu in Whistler at a fancy Greek restaurant.

So there you have it! The coolness herself, Darla. What else can be said that has not been said in picture form. She has been my rock throughout the last 4 years of nursing school. And it is because of her that I truly know the definition of the word cool!

Betcha didn't think I would actually post something like this did yah Darla! ;) Love you girl!

The Benginning of the End

I had my first shift of my Preceptorship today. That is fancy nursing school lingo for paying an extortion amount of money to work full time on a nursing unit paired with an RN for free! Sounds great eh? Yah...no! Never-the-less I made it through my first shift today. Not only was it my first shift on a surgical floor in nearly a year, but it was in a BRAND SPANKING NEW HOSPITAL!

I spent much of the morning running around with my Preceptor trying to find random things about the ward that we needed in one of the 3 totally different stock rooms. It was a steep learning curve for the both of us today learning where everything is, how things run, and how to work all the new state of the art equipment. The patients are patient with us for the most part.

So, as the title states, this is the beginning of the end for me as this is my final practicum and culmination of my nursing school life!! It is 15 weeks long and I will gradually be taking over the RN's entire patient load and she will become more of an advisor for me rather than a supervisor and helper etc. So this is it folks. T-minus 97 days and counting until I am officially an RN and my dream job in emerg can begin.

P.S. Sorry the comics are soo small, but they were cute and I couldn't resist. Just click on them and you can read them larger.