Not so good

So it turns out I'm not so good at keeping a blog after all. :-) So now that I'm ultra busy, I'll try again. I've always been better at getting things done when I don't have time to do everything.

So why am I so busy? Because I've decided to go to nursing school! I have about a year of prereqs to finish so I started those at the local community college. All the classes are online, which is probably the only way I could do it.

So I'm taking Statistics, Anatomy and Physiology, and Human Development. Statistics is awesome. It was the class I was most afraid of as almost everyone I've talked to has said it is horrible. But I am enjoying it very much. For one, the instructor is uber-organized. We have a spreadsheet showing exactly what we should be doing each day of each week, and we can get as far ahead as we want. The math part is a bit tedious, and it really sucks when you make one stupid mistake that messes *everything* else up (I set up spreadsheets to avoid that problem), but I really like the precision of it all. Maybe I need more precision in my life. :-) And, it stretches my brain. I have to work at it ... but not so hard that I hate it.

A&P, on the other hand, I thought I would love. And I do find it incredibly interesting. However, the professor is totally uninvolved. I know what chapters the tests are over and that is it. So I am reading and memorizing ... all on my own. Fortunately, I know how to learn and I have a photographic memory. But I feel sorry for all the students who don't. There's no direction at all. Which is totally unprofessional.

As for Human Development, it's booooooorrrrrrriiiiiing. And the class doesn't make it any more interesting. Nothing more to say on that!

As for why I want to go to nursing school (cause this post isn't long enough yet!) -- I have always been fascinated by the human body. Thought about medical school a few times in my life, but something always came up to prevent it. So one day I realized that I didn't want it enough; if I did, I would have made it happen. But I do want to be involved in health care. Thus, nursing school. And as soon as I made that decision, things started falling into place. It was like the universe had agreed with me. If everything works out, I'll start in fall of 2010. And since I want to be a nurse practitioner, which will require a PhD as of 2015, I'll be in school for quite awhile. My dream would be to work with a naturopathic physician. I think. There's so much choice, I need to learn more.

Oh! And I'm taking the Jewish community conversion class, which lasts a year. But more on that later. :-)