Finals week results

Well it's over. I made it through the fall semester and while I haven't gotten the *official* word on my Human Development grade, I'm about 99.9% sure that I got an A which means I got A's in both my classes this term! I worked my ass off for my Anatomy/Physiology grade and all that work finally paid off. I was kind of nervous midway through the term, but was able to turn things around and do well. I have to say that it was the hardest class I have ever taken in my life. Next term I'll do the 3rd term of A&P and then I'll be done with that requirement. Don't get me wrong...it's all super interesting stuff that I'm enjoying learning, it's just hard with the pressure of wanting to get an A to be competitive in the application process for school.

Speaking of school, I'm thinking more and more about Physician's Assistant school instead of nursing. It's a super up and coming field and would be really interesting work with a good deal of responsibility. The only thing I don't know about is if my crisis line experience would count as medical experience in the application process. I guess I'll have to talk with someone at one of the schools to find out.

Work is getting to be so taxing on my spirit these days. I don't know if it's because of the holidays that everyone is freaking out, but the calls I've been getting these past couple of weeks have been super intense. I just don't have the energy to give to people anymore like I used to. It's hard because I'm trying to leave this field that I'm in now, but have to stay in it for now to pay my bills. I find that I just don't give a shit about the majority of the people who call in. Perhaps this is self protection against the stress of the work? Hard to say, but it's really hard to drag my ass out of bed at 3:30AM to do the early bird shift at this job. I keep telling myself, "but I can knit in between calls"! But this is getting to be not enough to compensate for the misery I have to hear 32 hours per week. And I just picked up a bunch of shifts over the holiday break to make money to pay my tuition in January. Why can't I just win the lottery? Oh yeah, maybe it's because I never buy any lottery tickets!