Finished with school for now!

My final grade was an 87, which isnt bad but I wanted an A, dammit. The highest grade in the class was a 92 so I dont feel bad. My goals for the summer are:

1) Finish scrapbooking

2)Knit a blanket

3)Learn more guitar

4)Brush my languages up (ASL, Spanish, German)

5)Work out 5 times a week again.

So far, I've knitted 12 rows and went to the gym yesterday and today, so things are starting out well. I hope I'm buff, trilingual, writing songs, under a cozy blanket and loose-photo free by August 15th!

Two tests down, one to go.

I took the ATI test, which was a joke, not in the sense that it was easy (it wasn't easy, it was just... weird), but that it counts nothing for my grade, its just a stupid benchmark test. That was on Tuesday. Wednesday I had my skills lab exam where I proved I could give a subcutaneous injection and hang an IV properly (which I've been doing in clinicals for five weeks. I think they are a little late testing me.). All that is over and now all I need is a 99 on the final to get an A! Piece of cake :)

In other news, I am embarrassed to say that someone got me a webkinz and the stupid website has games that are actually fun. I have to yank myself off of it to do chores! Its actually really kid friendly without being lame. I'm proud of Ganz. Good job, Ganz, this is way better than that stupid beanie baby craze.

Hmmm and I learned another green day song. This is not much of an accomplishment, but I'll pretend it is. Also I sound like shit and need to go to a private lesson ASAP. And I need to buy or rent some German CDs, these are my goals for summer: German, and guitar.

Clinical Week 5 and Mike Ness Concert

 Clinical week 5 was our last 2 days of clinicals and I have nothing to really report. My patient was 94 and, of course, dying. If things keep up I'll be the "angel of death" for my class. Course, everyone I get is extremely old, so there you have it.

So Sunday was Mother's day, and we spent the morning with one of Jason's coworkers whose children are in Ohio (the kids are our age), so we brought her some flowers (aw) and made some breakfast and took Hannah over too so she could get a doggy fix. Then we went out to lunch with Dusan and Kelly, which was really overdue!!, and had a wonderful time, and I felt little baby Jaksic kick me, it was very exciting, I can't wait for that baby to bust out and wreak havoc.

Then in the evening we saw Mike Ness, who is the frontman of Social Distortion, do his solo thing at Rams Head. I got yelled at for using my camera (with no flash! it was totally unobtrusive) and I think they wanted to take it away but i hid it. It is so stupid that I can't use my shitty little camera when everyone and their mother were using their cell phones to take pictures. Here is a picture I took with the camera:

Here is a picture I took with the phone:

pretty similar in quality to me. I don't understand the logic.

Anyway, Mike Ness is overrated. His set was mediocre, he didn't play solos of any kind (is he even able to play anything other than chords? Its a serious question Im not being a punk), he had no charisma with the crowd (and the crowd had the same amount of charisma, FYI, 1/2 of Mike Ness/Social D's fans are ignorant, insecure, immature jerks), I was not amused. Probably my worst concert experience yet. It wasn't horrible, and some of the music was good, but I didn't come away going "Wow! That was an awesome experience!" I came away from it going, "Wow! I am glad that is over!" And for as long as the set-up was before the band came out, the mixing wasn't done properly I heard an overwhelming amount of pseudocountry guitar and nearly no Mike Ness voice. I didn't love it, I probably will see social distortion but I don't think I'll see a solo Ness show again any time soon.

I also felt extremely tall and gorgeous because there were so many short people there which was somewhat of an enigma to me, and a lot of these people looked really trashy. Not punk, or rockabilly, just traaashy. whew. I guess I am old.

Here's some more pictures of the show, via camera phone.

What is something or someone you find completely overrated?

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Duggars expecting 18th child, pampers stock up 15%

Dear Discovery Health, please stop feeding the Duggars

I wrote this upon finding out the Duggars have their own show now  and they are about to have their 18th baby.

I may be in the minority saying this, because a lot of people like to watch these kinds of trainwrecks, but the Duggars are attention seekers, and the whole circus of their unusual life being exploited on television has gotten out of hand. I personally think that your network is showing zero concern for the possibility that these parents have mental issues and personality problems that may not be obvious on the surface to you or 80% of the rest of America, but they are pretty obvious to me, and I'm not even a psychologist.
I know you'll keep them on TV so you can keep making money from adverts because all the crazy bible belt housewives probably eat this garbage up. But their uberchristian, hypocritical lifestyles and teachings do not attract me to your channel. Frankly, this show repulses me. I expect more from an educational channel. All I have learned from wasted film including the Duggars is

a)don't move to arkansas, they elect incompetent religious radicals and

b)dont have more children than there are daylight hours.

Thanks for your time,
BJ

Oh, how dare I? I dare because these people allow themselves to be under the microscope, by being on television, the very same television that their children are not allowed to watch. oh, I'm mostly condemning them for the mother and/or father's aberrant personality disorders that most likely include narcissism, the exploitation by an american cable network of them to make money, the exploitation of the older children who have to raise their siblings, especially the girls (They ARE being forced to raise children, no matter how smiley they are)... I could go on.

How do you think the one or two kids who will mature and realize they are gay, will cope? How much abuse probably goes on in that home? WHat goes on behind those doors when the smiling happy children go inside?

What will happen when they finally give birth to a kid with CP or a chromosome disorder? Will her vagina magically stop accepting sperm? Will they be forced to care for those they have? Will a "damaged child" be a "price paid" for some sort of "sin"?

Yeah, yeah. Its america, they can do what they want. But there's something amiss, I promise.