Archive for December, 2009
Call me Scrooge
While the majority of Americans are poised to allow a ridiculous notion of an obese elf into their homes, I am preheating my oven … fully prepared to cook any intruders and feed them to my cats. Read more
The irony of marriage in the South
Why is there such an emphasis on marrying young in the Bible Belt?
I find it highly amusing that everyone in the South assumes that there is something wrong with a person if she chooses not to marry before the age of 30. Is marrying at 18 or 20 the better solution? Read more
A nurse in the making
In August, I was sucked up by a vacuum. Not like a quantum vacuum in space … more like a giant Hoover.
I remember sitting in my living room minding my own business when all of the sudden I found myself in an enormous pile of crap (minus the fecal matter). It was more like a neighborhood leveled by a tornado. I was surrounded by a plethora of unfamiliar faces, an abundance of information, bandages, textbooks, needles, syringes, flying papers, catheters, dressings, notebooks, and naked plastic dummies. Read more
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