Giving notice

I'm giving 2-weeks notice at the nursing home tonight. I was recently selected for a "college ambassador" position with my school, which comes with a pretty substantial scholarship, so I won't need to work. Woo hoo!

Still, I will have barely worked there for a month. I hate to quit anything, and here I find myself doing it again. The cost-benefit analysis makes it unavoidable, though ... I get far more as a college ambassador for far less work. It make it more likely that I'll be able to keep my grades up.

Fall semester classes start Aug. 13. It'll actually be somewhat of a relief to resume a more "normal" schedule for a change...

Military Motivator

Check out the Military Motivator:

I stand in awe of those who serve. God bless you all.

h/t to LawDog

On today's menu...

... we've got an appetizer of laundry, followed by a main course of a 50-question math review and exam. For dessert, work from 3-11.

I haven't taken a hike, pulled a trigger, read anything for pleasure or played my guitar in way, way too long.

Bah.

Odd hours

I've got 2 more days (er ... nights) of 3rd shift this week -- tonight and tomorrow night. Then I have Friday off, and I work 2nd shift on Saturday.

Several years ago, when I worked for a shipping company during my last semester of college, I worked nights, so 3rd shift isn't all that foreign to me. However, back then I worked a consistent schedule Monday through Friday. It's more difficult to stay adjusted when your schedule varies.

Aside from that, my schedule will go totally rodeo once classes resume for the Fall semester in 3 and a half weeks. Not only will I be taking 15 hours, but I'm an "ambassador" for the college, which obligates me to attend functions representing the College, give tours, answer prospective students' questions, etc. That requires 40 hours a semester.

Frankly, I have to entertain the idea of quitting the nursing home sometime during the semester if things get too weird. The ambassador position came with a $1200 scholarship ($600 per semester) for a year of work, so that'd be enough to trump whatever I'd be able to make as a nurse aide during that time.

We'll see how it goes. My grades come first, so that'll be the determining factor governing whether or not I stay with the nursing home. In any event, I'll sit for my boards and be an LPN by early 2008, so it's not like I'd be working as an aide all that long anyway. I don't plan to work at the nursing home as an LPN (though it's still too early to say for sure...)

In the mean time, though, I'm trying to make sure I get enough sleep between shifts. At least I can sleep while Miss Fluffy is at work. I've got shades and dark curtains in our bedroom, and I pull a toboggan down over my eyes to sleep, so I can shut out the daylight. Geez ... I'm like some kind of adult-diaper-changing vampire...

Pure gold

Tam has been on a roll:

A snippet from a recent post:

Do you know what the difference is between you and I? I don't pretend to care about your safety. My selfishness is out in the open for all to see. You see, you don't care about my safety either. You say you do, of course, but that's not why you want my guns gone. You want my guns gone because the only safety you care about is your own, and yet you refuse to take any personal responsibility for it. Your faux concern for my safety is merely a fig leaf for your own pusillanimity.

Part of another:

The most important question here, though, is where do they get off thinking that it's any of their business what you put in your mouth? So it's not healthy; so what? If you want to pour yourself a nice, frosty mug of battery acid and down it in one gulp, how is that any business of mine, let alone some faceless drone in the government? "Don't put that in your mouth!" is something you tell your three year old, not a middle-aged father of four.

And read this one which puts the UN in its proper light.

Enjoy!

Back again...

Dang - I didn't realize it had been that long since I'd blogged! I've been busy putting new irons in the fire -- I'm more than halfway through my second class this summer, and I worked my first night shift at the local nursing home last night. The nursing home job is going pretty well, though it's hard work. I'm learning alot, that's for sure.

Blogging is probably going to be sporadic until I can get a handle on my schedule.

For now, though, let's get on with it, shall we?