A Lengthy, Yet Empty, Update

There have been complaints recently that people never update these things, so here we go. I’m not really sure how far back in time I should go...

Summer was pretty darn boring for me since I didn’t work at all, but I volunteered at the hospital which was nice, even though it was usually only for about three hours a week. Out of the blue in mid-August, my heart was ripped out and torn to shreds, but looking back on it, I could see it coming. Either way, not pleasant. Still trying to get over that one.

School went pretty well last term. I had a couple of really crappy classes, but I had one elective and I course about the history of popular music, and that was pretty great. I had my last set of exams ever in December, so that’s pretty awesome. Except I have my registration exam in June which isn’t going to be so fun.

Painted myself into a corner just before Christmas and managed to create quite a little triangle for myself. Make that more of a complex quadrilateral, actually. Kept things interesting, anyway, and I shared half the story with a few people and gave them quite the laugh at my expense. And now I’m just hoping that two people (who know each other very well) don’t talk about certain events, and another person will actually want to talk to me again in spite of those same events.

I’m working in pediatrics at the hospital this term which has been great so far. I indirectly made one kid cry on my first day which in turn made me want to cry. Almost passed out twice that same day, but had two relatively successful night shifts since then.

It’s pretty terrible that I’ve only been back here for a week since Christmas, and already I’m somewhat annoyed with my housemate. She got engaged in December, and while I’m super happy for her, she’s on the phone with her mom for hours every night talking to her mom and stressing about her wedding… this being the one that she doesn’t even want to set a date for until after she graduates several months from now. That and I’ve seen her fiancé almost as much as I’ve seen her in the past week. I love it when I get back from the hospital and she’s not here, but he is.

My future is stressing me out quite a bit daily, and I have no idea where I want to go once my lease is up at the end of April. The world is open to me, and that’s just plain annoying. Far too many options. I think I’m going to go to Australia in June, but I haven’t decided whether I just want it to be a vacation for a few weeks or a month or whatever, or a more permanent thing, where I’d live there and work for a few years. I’m leaning towards the latter because I don’t know where else to go at this point, but we’ll have to see. I think that I’ve convinced one of my best friends to go with me, and that will be fabulous, other than one small drawback. And we’ll have some free places to stay for a while, too.

That's all for now. I'm hoping to have some good stories from the hospital to tell, but we'll have to wait and see.