To-Do List

Now that school is all but over, i'm feeling incredibly manic, and getting a bit of spring-cleaning fever. So my to-do list today is a mile long, even though I keep getting distracted by things like the computer. But it helps me to write it down. Isn't this fun?

-Make birthday breakfast for brit (in progress... the ebelskeiverhshgcko pan is heating up)
-sweep and mop floors (done!)
-clean the bathroom (done!)
-finish folding the laundry
-clean the living room and vacuum
-clean off the random surfaces in the bedroom (and vacuum)
-dust the random surfaces in the bedroom
-pack one more box
-do one more load of laundry (of random crap that got missed)
-clean off the kitchen counter
-shop for Brit's birthday dinner (red chicken, yum!)
-make brit's birthday dinner

... And we'll see from there.

I believe congratulations are in order.

Today was my last day of clinical, pretty much EVER. I handed in my last big pain-in-the-butt paper, and now I have nothing left for the rest of the semester except a small, 1-day-max single page "information brochure", and then the (pretty easy) final. And then next semester is widely considered the easiest of them all... we're thought to know nearly all we need to know (HA!), and the semester focuses mostly on review for the NCLEX. And clinicals? "Clinicals" consist entirely of personal choice areas... half a semester in Community Nursing, which you're placed in according to your area of preference, and then the preceptorship- which for me, is 8 weeks in Labor & Delivery.

So congratulations, me! The hard part is over. And I've already treated myself to an hour-long bubble bath with candles and classical music. Which isn't as comfortable in a small tub as you might think... but still, you should try it sometime.

::SQUEE!::

Invisible Girl

Ok, I'm really not trying to be emo or melodramatic, but seriously, how forgettable am I? It seems like remembering my name (JENNIFER. how hard can that really be?) is just absolutely beyond some people... most notably people who make a real effort to remember names.

When I was but a wee freshman, I had a philosophy class that I loved. The teacher made it a point to memorize everyone's name, and made a huge deal out of it, too. Yet somehow, though I attended every single week and participated regularly, he was still asking my name up until a month before the end of the semester.

The same thing happened in my music class last night. And in this one, I really do participate regularly... At the beginning of the semester, I had to personally introduce myself to get a syllabus from him, and we actually had a conversation. Several, actually, in the first few lectures. And I'd say I make a comment at least every other week (it's a once/week class), and every single time he has to ask my name, even though he's made a point out of having nearly everyone else's memorized by now. Oh, and next week is the last class of the semester. Ouch.

Maybe this is why I'm so bad at remembering other peoples' names... I'm just so used to not needing to. Or maybe I really am being dramatic and only remembering the negative experiences. It just really threw me off. I didn't think "jen" was that hard to remember!!

Tagged

(tagged by Cassie...)

10 years ago....
I was only 12, almost 13. That seems kinda silly. I was in 8th grade, that may or may not have been the year we went to Disney World, and I don't remember much beyond that. Much that's interesting, anyway. I was a pretty boring kid.

5 things on my To Do list today.....

1. Write my med/surg case study
2. Make dinner
3. Write my med/surg case study
4. pack when i'm bored and sick of writing
5. procrastinate writing my med/surg case study

If I became a Billionaire....
I'd pay off my student loans (which aren't much, but they're there), finish out college because I actually do want to be a nurse, buy a beautiful house on a beach somewhere warm, and put the rest in a high-interest savings account so brit never had to work again and I could just work when i felt like it.


5 Jobs I've had.....

1. Food Service Worker
2. Delivery Expert
3. Telemarketer
4. Various secretarial temping
5. Student!

5 of my secret bad habits.....

1. Procrastination (not so secret, considering i'm writing this when i should be studying)
2. Whining
3. not cleaning up after myself, even though i say i want a clean house (esp. leaving dishes out various places)
4. being waaaaay too trusting in people
5. picking my nose :)

5 places I have lived.....

1. This apartment, in provo UT
2. my grandpa's house in orem
3. BYU dorms (and various other apartments in provo/orem)
4. My parents' house in NJ
5. my biological parents' house in NJ

5 things people might not know about me.....

1. I've never lived anywhere but NJ and Utah
2. My favorite animal in the whole world is the Killer Whale
3. When i get really stressed out, or i'm in an incredibly tense situation (like when i would get in really big trouble with my mom), I laugh. I can't help it.
4. I love to cook and feel domestic, even though I'm bad at actually doing it.
5. I'm a math nerd.

I tag Emilia, Natalie, and Wendy. Do it!

FAIL!

I think I've decided I just fail at doing interviews. I've had so many over the past few months. I've always said I don't have a job yet because I haven't found the right one, or like it's my choice somehow, but I'm really starting to wonder.

I just bombed what should have been the easiest interview of all time. Care Centers are almost always desperate for employees, and everything I've heard about them indicates that the interview process is rarely as much an interview as a "So, when can you start?" Not so with this one. It felt like everything I said was the wrong thing, and she let me know it. She must have corrected me 3 or 4 times. I felt so dumb. Jerk.

So i'll be surprised if they actually call me back on that one, which is pretty sad. I actually wanted it.