Largely because I did fairly well on a test this morning.
Not spectacularly well, but better than the last one (which was still adequate). If I can keep this up, I should finish this term's audit with a respectable grade and be re-admitted to the nursing program.
So far, so good. So far, so good. Just keep on pluggin' away. Don't worry about what you could've done better last week, and for God's sake don't worry about how you're going to pass the NCLEX. Just stick to what you're doing right now.
Elsewhere in the news,
The Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act of 2007 looks very promising. It also makes me feel good. We're supposed to be wary of "feel-good legislation", but I can tell you I'm ready for a change from the feel-bad 109th Congress.
Signing MoveOn's petition to Congress to urge them to remind President* Bush whose job it is to declare war made me feel good, too.
Finding out that the Administration's intelligence findings on Iran's nuclear program were (ahem) flawed didn't make me feel good, exactly, but at least it's getting some publicity before the war, this time.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Seek serenity and clarity."\\
Monday, February 26, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Things People Send Me
Kathe's son Jake sent me this, about unusual houses: http://www.2spare.com/item_72903.aspx
Wes Clark sent me a link to a petition to forestall the invasion of Iran: http://www.stopiranwar.com/
Kathe sent me the secret key to the universe: http://www.timecube.com/
Universe Today sent me their regular weekly space exploration newsletter: http://www.universetoday.com
MoveCongress sent me an update, too: http://www.movecongress.org
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids invited me to e-mail State Senator Frank Morse about kid tobacco freedom: http://tobaccofreekids.org
Kathe sent me a link to our favorite online comic strip, an episode based on my favorite quote from leonardo da Vinci: "Mathematics is the alphabet in which God has written the Universe."
I get all sorts of stuff in my e-mail. What's in yours?
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Outlook hopeful."\\
Wes Clark sent me a link to a petition to forestall the invasion of Iran: http://www.stopiranwar.com/
Kathe sent me the secret key to the universe: http://www.timecube.com/
Universe Today sent me their regular weekly space exploration newsletter: http://www.universetoday.com
MoveCongress sent me an update, too: http://www.movecongress.org
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids invited me to e-mail State Senator Frank Morse about kid tobacco freedom: http://tobaccofreekids.org
Kathe sent me a link to our favorite online comic strip, an episode based on my favorite quote from leonardo da Vinci: "Mathematics is the alphabet in which God has written the Universe."
I get all sorts of stuff in my e-mail. What's in yours?
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Outlook hopeful."\\
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Fat Tuesday, Ash Wednesday...Lye Soap Thursday?
This year, I notice something I didn't on the occasion of previous Mardi Gras(es): people wearing strings of beads, even though they were going about their regular lives (work, school, library) without any other hint of festivity.
It reminded me of 14 February 2006, when I noticed lots of people wearing red, as though they'd gotten their Saint Valentines mixed up with their Saint Patricks.
Oh, well. I suppose it's a sign of a vigorous culture, that new practices and observances are appearing.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Remember what I said the other day about priorities?"\\
It reminded me of 14 February 2006, when I noticed lots of people wearing red, as though they'd gotten their Saint Valentines mixed up with their Saint Patricks.
Oh, well. I suppose it's a sign of a vigorous culture, that new practices and observances are appearing.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Remember what I said the other day about priorities?"\\
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Woman-Free Dollars
Okay, Susan B. Anthony, you've had your dollar. Sacagawea, same for you.
Now get out of the way, because it's time for men to be honored.
The U.S. Treasury will shortly begin issuing one-dollar coins in new designs, five different per year, to commemorate the 39 (and counting) dead Presidents.
Whether he was President for 31 days or twelve years, whether he saved the nation or nearly destroyed it, each former President will be honored (sometimes for the tenth or twentieth time).
Women who contributed to the nation's history will have to move to the back of the queue.
We will be honoring James Garfield ahead of Clara Barton.
William Howard Taft ahead of Harriett Tubman.
Gerald Ford ahead of Rachel Carson.
Oh, yes, and Richard Nixon will finally get his portrait on a piece of U.S. currency.
Richard Milhous Nixon.
Some time around 2015, innocent children will be paying for cartons of milk with coins bearing the portrait of Richard For God's Sake Nixon.
Instead of Amelia Earhart.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Consider your priorities carefully."\\
Now get out of the way, because it's time for men to be honored.
The U.S. Treasury will shortly begin issuing one-dollar coins in new designs, five different per year, to commemorate the 39 (and counting) dead Presidents.
Whether he was President for 31 days or twelve years, whether he saved the nation or nearly destroyed it, each former President will be honored (sometimes for the tenth or twentieth time).
Women who contributed to the nation's history will have to move to the back of the queue.
We will be honoring James Garfield ahead of Clara Barton.
William Howard Taft ahead of Harriett Tubman.
Gerald Ford ahead of Rachel Carson.
Oh, yes, and Richard Nixon will finally get his portrait on a piece of U.S. currency.
Richard Milhous Nixon.
Some time around 2015, innocent children will be paying for cartons of milk with coins bearing the portrait of Richard For God's Sake Nixon.
Instead of Amelia Earhart.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Consider your priorities carefully."\\
Monday, February 12, 2007
We Can End This War
Congress can end it, and we can make them do it.
They can cut off funding for the war, leaving President* Bush with only three choices:
Withdraw the troops (in which case, good).
Stage a banana-republic defiance of Congressional authority (in which case, also good: a nice clearcut case for impeachment).
Order the troops to stand and fight, without food or fuel or ammunition (in which case, also good: an absolutely imperative case for impeachment).
We need to do this. The madness has got to end.
We can't just let it go until 2009. We need to do this now.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Unequivocally yes."\\
They can cut off funding for the war, leaving President* Bush with only three choices:
Withdraw the troops (in which case, good).
Stage a banana-republic defiance of Congressional authority (in which case, also good: a nice clearcut case for impeachment).
Order the troops to stand and fight, without food or fuel or ammunition (in which case, also good: an absolutely imperative case for impeachment).
We need to do this. The madness has got to end.
We can't just let it go until 2009. We need to do this now.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Unequivocally yes."\\
Friday, February 02, 2007
Clean Living
After reading Peni R. Griffin's comment on my post from the other day, I feel a little like the nephew in the old joke:
"Uncle, you smoke, you drink, you stay out all night -- it's not healthy!"
"Let me tell you, nephew, one day my doctor is going to tell me, 'You have to quit drinking, you have to quit smoking, you have to quit staying out all night, or you're going to die,' and then I'll quit smoking and drinking and staying out all night, and live to be an old man. But you? What will you say when your doctor says to quit smoking and drinking and staying up late, or else you'll die?"
"Well, I'll say that I've never smoked, never drank, and I'm always in bed by ten."
"Yes, and your doctor will say, 'In that case, there's nothing I can do for you'."
Peni said to eat fruit instead of refined sugar (and no artificial sweeteners, which only increase the appetite for carbohydrates), take the stairs instead of the elevator, bicycle and walk instead of driving.
Darn, I already do all of those.
I love fruit. I make sandwiches that are two slices of sandwich meat and six leaves of lettuce, and I don't like mayonnaise.
I used to drink soda pop, lots of it. And never diet, because artifical sweeteners all taste like poison to me. These days, I drink coffee. Lots of it. With sugar and milk.
Oops. Double darn, there goes the coffee.
Instead, I'm drinking cold black tea, unsweetened. It's bland and slightly bitter, but I find I like that better than just water. And it definitely doesn't have any refined sugar in it.
Oh, well. Kathe reminds me that the difference between slowly growing fatter and slowly growing leaner is only a few hundred calories a day. Maybe I can do this.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Signs point to yes."\\
"Uncle, you smoke, you drink, you stay out all night -- it's not healthy!"
"Let me tell you, nephew, one day my doctor is going to tell me, 'You have to quit drinking, you have to quit smoking, you have to quit staying out all night, or you're going to die,' and then I'll quit smoking and drinking and staying out all night, and live to be an old man. But you? What will you say when your doctor says to quit smoking and drinking and staying up late, or else you'll die?"
"Well, I'll say that I've never smoked, never drank, and I'm always in bed by ten."
"Yes, and your doctor will say, 'In that case, there's nothing I can do for you'."
Peni said to eat fruit instead of refined sugar (and no artificial sweeteners, which only increase the appetite for carbohydrates), take the stairs instead of the elevator, bicycle and walk instead of driving.
Darn, I already do all of those.
I love fruit. I make sandwiches that are two slices of sandwich meat and six leaves of lettuce, and I don't like mayonnaise.
I used to drink soda pop, lots of it. And never diet, because artifical sweeteners all taste like poison to me. These days, I drink coffee. Lots of it. With sugar and milk.
Oops. Double darn, there goes the coffee.
Instead, I'm drinking cold black tea, unsweetened. It's bland and slightly bitter, but I find I like that better than just water. And it definitely doesn't have any refined sugar in it.
Oh, well. Kathe reminds me that the difference between slowly growing fatter and slowly growing leaner is only a few hundred calories a day. Maybe I can do this.
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, "Signs point to yes."\\
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