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!