I know there have been many posts on Tumblr about joining the bone marrow registry. So I finally made the effort. Got my buccal swabs and collected my cells. Gonna throw it in the mail today. You can register for free through the end of January. Two days left! Go to BeTheMatch.org and register. They especially need mixed race and other melaninly blessed donors. So if you’re healthy and between 18-60 years old, seriously consider registering. :)
I don't sleep at night... no biggie.
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. ~ George Aiken
Sad, but most likely true. People love to hate.
I'm Jess. I live in Charleston, WV. I am a nurse on a neurological floor. I mostly care for older people that have had strokes or have other problems with their noggins. Some seizures, head trauma and spinal surgery too. Lately it's also been the satellite psych ward. I work night shift, so it's even more fun since the real crazies come out at night.
Sad, but most likely true. People love to hate.
I'm Jess. I live in Charleston, WV. I am a nurse on a neurological floor. I mostly care for older people that have had strokes or have other problems with their noggins. Some seizures, head trauma and spinal surgery too. Lately it's also been the satellite psych ward. I work night shift, so it's even more fun since the real crazies come out at night.
Why I wouldn't make a good teacher...
- Me: The clouds are really ominous today.
- My friend: What does ominous mean?
- Me: It's like... foreboding.
- My friend: ????
- Me: Haha. Sorry. I guess I should use smaller words to define bigger ones. Let me try again...
So there’s some guy that makes these intricate bird houses and just hangs them up at the dog park we go to in NoHo. I’m surprised they’re all still there, today we showed up and there’s more.
Brit Stephen Fry talking to an Eskimo man about traveling in the dark winter months
- Stephen Fry: So how do you navigate? By the stars.
- Eskimo man: Sure, by the stars... or GPS. *chuckles*
NoHo
So, it’s been a while, but big updates. I did it. I moved away from Charleston, WV. I’m doing traveling nursing, just like I wanted. Well, I hope I will be… having some licensing issues. Lots of things have gone wrong in the whole process, so I haven’t started work yet, but I am where I will be working. Los Angeles. I’m living in North Hollywood only 15 minutes from the hospital where I will be working.
I drove here last week. Alone, save for my dogs… which made it a real pain in my ass to find places to stay along the way. But we made it and in really good time too. Audio books that I’d downloaded onto my iPod helped with the boredom factor a lot. Though it still gets pretty lonely and boring driving by yourself cross-country. I almost had someone to come with me, but I ended not having enough room in my car. Haha.
Things they are a’changing. Hopefully for the better.
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No different
I’m not sure why I got my hopes up. Why I thought this time would be different. This relationship. It wasn’t. I guess it’s not quite buried in the ground with tombstone erected, but it’s close. I know you can’t change people, I would like to, but I’m not going to even try because I’m sure it’s a lost cause. Damn it all. Is it so wrong that I want to start my life with someone before I’m 30? I’m getting closer to it. I’ll be 26 in less than a month and I don’t feel like I’m making any progress towards that goal. I also have a feeling my birthday is going to be another let down. Fuck life.
One month
One month from today I will be 26. Knowing my luck as of late, I will probably spend it alone in this crappy town. I know, 26 isn’t really that old, but I feel like most of the people I know that are my age have their shit together much better than I do. Not to say that my life is a mess, but I don’t really see it going in the direction I am hoping it to in a timely fashion.
The guy I’m dating, who is most definitely not my boyfriend (we had “the talk”, or in our case a series of emails since we’re long distance and I’m not really a phone person), is generally pessimistic about our future together. It could be from him being “burned” really badly in a past relationship, or maybe he just isn’t as into me as I thought he was. Though, apparently we appear to others that we are more than what he says we are. Aka, my friends that we hung out with told me that if they weren’t aware of our situation, they’d think we were together, exclusive (which we’re not, though it’s not totally ruled out as a future adjective related to our relationship).
In addition to this boy trouble, I feel like this town is sucking the life out of me. I am getting the feeling that I’m beginning to sink into another bout of depression, the first indication is that I’m sleeping way more than necessary. At first I thought it was just because I work nights and my sleep schedule is all whacked, but I don’t only sleep during the day, I’m sleeping at night too when I have my days off. I’m also getting overly emotional and frustrated over nothing while crying at the drop of a hat.
I can’t stand feeling this way. I spent most of my teen years in a dark hole of depression and I don’t want to go back. No suicidal thoughts yet though, so that’s a plus. I am going to try to improve my situation as quickly as possible in hopes that it also helps my mood too.
If anyone actually reads this, please keep your fingers crossed that in the next month everything improves for me. I have had a several years of disappointing birthdays, hopefully I’ll have a turn around and this one will be different.
Canceling
So, my contract with Verizon is finally up and I’ve decided to cut ties with them and hook up with another provider. Why? Primarily because it’s damned expensive. I decided to go on their website this evening and look into how I would go about canceling my service with them. And you know what? I couldn’t find anything. It’s hidden somewhere. Crafty bastards. I guess they think if you have to work too hard for it maybe you’ll just give up and keep paying their exorbitant service charges.
It has worked for the moment, but I will figure it out and by the end of this month I will have moved on. Even if I have to actually call Verizon to do it.
Slacking
So, I’ve seriously been slacking with this whole posting thing, just as I expected I would. I’ve meant to post, really I have, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Now I really have nothing to write about, but feel like I should since I’m motivated to finally do it.
I cannot believe it is already September, the year has flown by. I have been at my current job for 13 months and I am making moves to get the heck out of here. I have my precious year of experience, though to do traveling nursing they really want two years (I can’t stay here another 11 months, I’d end up in a loony bin), but I’m going to make it work. Hopefully within the next month I’ll have some definitive plans to get out of this place.
I’ve been dating someone for the last couple of months. It’s a long distance thing and it blows. That’s how it started out, so I don’t know if it would be better if I saw him all the time. It would have to be, right? Though there is that whole “absence making the heart grow fonder” thing. Perhaps it is working because my heart seems to be pretty fond. I am hoping with this whole travel nursing thing I can test the waters of living closer and more legit dating (spending a weekend together once a month is not legit).
So now I’m biding my time here, going to work and trying not to lose my shit, wasting my days (aka nights, since I don’t sleep at night) watching Netflix movies (including a lot of crappy ones that I later regret), and waiting for the next weekend I get to spend with that guy (I hesitate to call him “my guy” even on here since we haven’t had that talk).
Here’s hoping that I have a very productive September, including at least one post a week, minimum.
