CLOSE CALL- I ALMOST DIED

Dear all,

I thought I saw an awful girl who shall remain nameless (her name rhymes with Bevelyn Drank) in Berkeley today. I had a small MI but luckily I had aspirin, morphine, an ECG machine with leads, a nasal cannula connected to 02 at 2 L/min and a defibrillator; therefore, I am alive. Also, it was a false alarm. Just a black guy with short dreads. Yes, that would normally be my ideal guy, but since he reminded me of said devil, he repulsed me.

Just thought everyone should know.

dream

I miss you all so much. i've even started dreaming about the 8 of us! I had a dream last night that we all kidnapped some girl! I have no idea why. We were in new york city and took her to my apartment (cause apparently i lived there). then, to interrogate her (again, no idea) we took her to starbucks. one of the weirdest dreams ever but it was wonderful because all of you were there! miss you!

This is how we all need to start our days!

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Update.

hello loves,

i'm going to follow in everybody else's footsteps and give an update! I know that you are uber curious about the VERY exciting things happening in my life. I'm taking NCLEX on June 29th- three weeks from yesterday! I've decided to move home on the 18th of June so please pray that my parents and I don't kill each other. It should be interesting. I start work on July 23rd if I pass. I know its a long time difference but I go to the beach on the 11th-19th and duh, I didn't want to miss the beach! I've also made a decision where we should go for our first annual statin get-together! Four words: HARRY POTTER THEME PARK!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha I'll probably be in Clemson until the 18th so CALL ME if you are here. I get bored. a lot.

LOVE YOU ALL!!!

ps someone tell bretta to join the blog!!!!!

hello ladies. as you all know, I am back from Africa and (sadly) not married to an African prince. Although I did meet one and he said I would be worth ten cows!

anyways, just letting everybody know that ashley decristofaro and I got an apartment in dt greenville within walking distance of all of the bars and to Publix (tori, I thought you would like that). so everyone has to come visit and we can get shitty and not have to worry about driving anywhere!

also:
1. Bretta Cook, RN .... CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
2. Leslie Sigler, employed.....CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
3. Megan Thomas, injured...... :( hope your hand is doing better!!!!

LOVE YOU LADIES!!!!!!!!!

-crestor

Black Hole of Depression

The title of this blog sounds reallly sad, and thats because I really am. I am getting really frustrated along the job front. I have applied to probably 3o something positions in this stupid state, not including GA and TN and NOTHING. On top of that I have no NCLEX number still and I am just getting really sick and tired of having an open empty future. I need my Statins to come to Clemson and cheer me up. Seriously, guys, this is my cry for help! Lets drink wine, watch stupid television shows and gossip about meaningless crap..Don't mean to be Debbie Downer but I am green with jealousy over the 6 of ya'll that have jobs and the stupid smartypants that already passed NCLEX (even though I love you all)

June Update

I am really missing you all today, and I wish we could have just a couple hours to spend all together.  I figured the closest I can get is to make a new blog post about what's going on with me, and hope the rest of you will do the same!

I'm spending a couple weeks at home in Lexington, which can only be described as extremely dull. I initially came home because I had two interviews last week, one with Fresenius dialysis company and one with Palmetto Richland. The first one at Fresenius was okay, but I felt like my answers to the guy's questions were not particularly impressive and even though it seemed like a good job, I just didn't leave feeling very excited about it. The next day I had an interview with Richland and went in with the mentality that I had little to no chance of getting the job (on the phone, she was very clear about the fact that there were 400 new grad applicants). In retrospect, it's probably the best way I could have felt about it, because I really wasn't nervous at all. Long story short, it went really well, I loved the unit, I loved the manager, and she called me on Friday and offered me the job. (I accepted.) Oh, it's on the cardiac tele unit in a brand new heart hospital. This will of course be quite a change for me as I'm used to breaking hearts, not fixing them! Haha, oh I'm funny! (I know you all miss my humor.)

This weekend I started looking for places to live in downtown Columbia. I would really like to find a very small house in a neighborhood not inhabited by USC students where I can live alone and 9 times out of 10, will not get shot. This turns out to be harder than I thought. My mom and I spent a good 4 or 5 hours today scoping out rentals, and almost everything was pretty terrible. I did, however, find two duplexes that actually seem pretty nice, and I'm hoping to be able to schedule an appointment to see them both this week. So cross your fingers for me!

Anyway, that's pretty much all that's going on with me. Still don't have a date scheduled for NCLEX, which is making me kind of feel like I don't need to study yet. BUT, congratulations to Bretta Cook, RN! So happy for her, and may we all have commas and letters after our names very very soon!

Love you and miss you all!