11/17/25

Today I had two exams in my fundamental and assessment lectures. So I got up at around 6:45 am and studied my fundamental stuff until I had to leave at 8:30.

hair was a little crazy this morning

My first exam, I did not do good on. I thought it wouldn't be too bad, it was over stuff like communication, teaching, and death, and I went over all of that yesterday and today. But the questions were just so hard for me, and I got a 67%. I'm really hoping they'll go through and give us some points back because that's actually failing. My exam average now for this class is a 76%, so I need at least that on the final now. Dammit. I mainly feel bad for my mom because she was just thinking how I was doing better and taking things more serious with my pharm exam grade, and now this. After the exam Mrs. Hall talked some about clinicals and then a guy came in who was offering a NA job at his place, and then we were out of class. CJ was asking what I got on the exam and I was like, "Not the best but not the worst," but I think I literally was the worst.

After class I went to the library for a bit to study for my next exam, but I couldn't study very well there. My allergies were just really bad, my nose was running like crazy. I saw the other Bronson and talked to him for a second, so that was interesting. Then I left and went to my car to study. Janell didn't want to buy me lunch, so I was fasting this morning. In my car, I studied for a while and then ended up falling asleep for about 20 minutes and that scared me because I thought I slept through the exam. It was perfect sleeping condition though, the sun was shining on me, I was tired, I wish I could have kept sleeping. Then I actually went to Grauel, the English building, to study for another half hour. They had cookies in there so I also had a chocolate cookie.

I walked into this exam and the room was absolutely packed. That was because there was another class in here taking their HESI thing. So there were two cohorts in this room and I came in after everyone else already found a seat. So I was just wandering around for a bit looking for a place to sit. I ended up having to sit next to Carleigh (I think that's her name). There were also some internet issues, I don't know if it's because there were so many people on it at once, or what, but I could not even get on Canvas. Eventually I decided to be smart and connect to a random guest Wi-Fi instead of SEMO's and I got through and started the exam. Once I saw the questions on this exam, I was pretty confident because I actually recognized the stuff from studying. So I went through it pretty fast and ended up getting a 92%. So I was happy with that. We could leave right after we finished for this one, and people were really talking about how hard this exam was. Like, I don't know how they could think this exam was hard and the first one was easy, I have no idea.

After that, I went to Nana's and played Fortnite for a little break. I really didn't do anything else the rest of the day, I never left Nana's. My mom came by and brought me a free small fry that I ordered and she picked up, as well as a full thing of delicious Sam's Club sushi and a giant loaf of Cuban bread. So thank you mom. I also did some work around Nana's. I cleaned off the side porch and sweep it off, so that's something. Then I went in and took a nap for a couple of hours. When I woke up, I ate some more, watched YouTube, and played quite a bit of Metro Last Light. It's been almost a year since I started it, so I kind of want to finish it. I love Metro. I also made some pancakes because I was really craving them.

That was basically my day. Failed an exam, that was awful. Did well on an exam, that's good. Then a lazy rest of the day. 3.5/10.

11/16/25

Today I did not do much, so I'll write this super fast. I got up and went to church with my parents even though I only got a few hours of sleep last night. Church was alright, nothing too crazy.

After church I went home and was home for the rest of the day. I had a ton of assignments due, so I started on those. My mom had made roast, so that was a good meal. I got a couple of dosage calc assignments done, did a musculoskeletal assignment, then took a break to build some of the hotel Lego set. I also played some Deadshot. Then I did some more assignments. I had a kind of big patho thing that I got done and did the references for our pharm TikTok assignment. I also skipped chapter and didn't respond to Grant when he asked why I missed it.

For dinner, my mom made this wild rice soup, and that was really good. Then I realized I have two exams tomorrow, so I studied for those and my mom helped some. That was basically my day.

2/10, super boring day.

11/12/25

Today was my head-to-toe check-off day, so I set alarms to wake up early and practice, but I didn't really get up early. My time to be there was 11:30, and I don't think I left until the very latest that I could. I didn't even practice that morning.

I got changed into my SEMO nurse clothes and left Nana's to go to Crisp Hall. I felt pretty confident about it at first, but when I actually got there, I was kind of nervous. I'd be doing my assessment on CJ and Mrs. Burk would be grading us. So I went up to Crisp and CJ was already there and that Stephanie student teacher girl was there, and they were both outside of the assessment lab. CJ flipped a coin for who should go first, I called tails, and it was tails. So I had to go first. I feel like I would've done better going second, but whatever. Eventually Mrs. Burk came out to get us and we went in.

I started my assessment on him and I felt kind of confident again. I washed my hands, confirmed the identity, did all the essential things that will fail you if you forget them, and went on. I went through the head and face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, back, chest, heart, arms, abdomen, legs, and then finished. Afterwards, she showed me my score, and it was an 85/100. I honestly thought I would've done better, but then CJ started doing his and I realized I did forget some stuff. I forgot to test the sensitivities of the arms and legs, I didn't ask about bowel movements, just some stuff like that. I don't know what CJ got, but his felt a little fuller than mine. CJ was saying some funny things, he really liked the word 'such'. He'd say things like, "We'll check with the bell to listen for murmurs and such." I don't know, it was kind of funny to me. But we both passed, so it doesn't really matter what I got. They also had brownies afterward that we could eat.

Afterwards, I went to McDonald's and got a small fry, and then went back to Nana's. I just played Fortnite some here, watched the new Slushy Noobz nursing home Roblox video (great video), and then my mom got there. She was dropping some stuff off, like that glass table and some blankets that she'd washed. We also cleaned the bathroom out. So she was there for 45 minutes or so. Once she left, I made some mac and cheese, played Fortnite, and then started Deathly Hallows: Part II, the last movie in my two week long Harry Potter marathon. It was kind of sad, I really liked watching these movies for the first time. And this movie was pretty good. Half-way through, my dad showed up and he'd been on the phone with me earlier and was getting me stuff from McDonald's. I only ordered a Dr. Pepper for free from the app, but he'd gotten an extra McFlurry for free somehow, so I got that, too. He came in and showed me some stuff downstairs, like the heater, and then we tried putting my car windshield sprayer on, because he got another one to see if it'd work. And it didn't really, it was spraying too low. So he's going to return that again, and I ordered a pack off of Amazon. Then he gave me a McDonald's apple pie and he left, and I went to finished my movie. It was a good movie, I wish it established after the battle a bit before jumping to 19 years later. Like, they really didn't do anything about Fred's, Remus's or Tonk's death. After the movie, I got a shower, and then finally started studying for my pharmacology exam tomorrow. Yes, I have that tomorrow, and I just started studying at about 11 pm. But I did some hardcore studying for about two hours and then went to bed at 1 am.

So today was kind of boring, but I passed the check-off, watched Slushy Noobz and Harry Potter, and played Fortnite. So 4/10.

11/11/25

Today I did not do much. I didn't have patho class for some reason, maybe Veteran's Day, I don't know. So I stayed at home. I really can't even remember what I did. I know I was out with the animals some. But my mom got home at around 3 pm, and I practiced my head-to-toe assessment that I'd have to do tomorrow on her. She also brought me an Arby's Reuben, so that was yummy.

I had work still, so I went to that at 6 pm, and it was alright. It went by fast enough, I had nine transports total. My first one was from dialysis to IRF, which I had never been to, so I asked the people at dialysis, and it's inpatient rehabilitation on the fourth floor, so I got that done. I had another weird request later on that said MRI to neuro, so I went down to the second floor MRI and no one was there, so I went to the basement MRI on the B elevator to look there. I had just been there for the first time earlier in my shift because Tyler said they were using that MRI machine. Some janitor guy asked what I was doing and I said I had a request from MRI, and he said there wasn't anyone down here. So I went back up to the second floor MRI and this lady found me and asked what I was doing. I said I had a request and we tried knocking on the door. After a minute or so, someone opened it and it was this Colombian guy who said he was repairing the system. So then we went to see if the request meant CT instead of MRI, so we went to the CT people (Stan and some girls) and they said no. So I called ER because the request was actually put in by them, and they said the patient I was looking for was there. So it was ER the whole time and they put in MRI instead of ER. Wow. But other than that, it was a quick shift. They also had little pastry things, so I took one of those from the breakroom.

I went to McDonald's afterwards and got a free four piece nugget, but they actually gave me six. So that was awesome. Maybe because I was nice to them, always be nice to service workers. Then I drove to Nana's and on my way, I saw the northern lights. My dad had sent me a picture earlier when I was at work, and I actually went outside at work to look, but I didn't see them. But on my way to Nana's, there they were. And they were very visible, the other time they were here, a year ago or so, you could really only see them through the camera with Apple's night mode. So that was really cool. I didn't do much at Nana's, I think I just watched YouTube and played Fortnite until going to bed.

So today was boring, I didn't do anything much until work. But the auroras were cool and my extra nuggets were good. 4/10.

11/7/25

I'm writing this several days after, so I may miss some details. But today was my retake of my two check-off skills, so I set alarms for 6 am, but I really didn't get up until 8 am or so. I was pretty confident on them, so I really didn't study or anything. I ate half of a pumpkin fry pie that my mom got me from her Amish trip yesterday for my breakfast. My time to be there today was 9:45, so I got up and got ready and left at around 9 am.

pumpkin fry pie, mmm

Once I got to Crisp, I read over my rubric for a couple of minutes, went to the bathroom, and then it was basically time. So I went up to the lab and did them. I did trach suctioning first I think, and I passed that. At least this time they told if you passed right after you did it. Both Mrs. Stinnett and Mrs. Hall were watching this time. And then I did trach care and I also passed that. The only criticism they had was that the cannula didn't fall all the way into the fake solution, part of it was sticking out. But I passed both of them, that's all that matters.

me after my check-offs. you could tell i was stressed because my
face is flushed and i was really hot afterwards

Apparently my sister was going to go see the cats again today, so I was planning on staying in town. I don't know if I talked about this yesterday, but Janell's been really wanting a cat for her house she's going to be moving into next semester, and she went to the Humane Society and found a cat named Joker that she likes (but she wants to name it Dory for some reason). So I kind of wanted to go to. So I did some stuff to waste time.

I first was going to go to HealthPoint, but their parking lot was basically full and I didn't want to work out when it was busy. So I went to Teen Challenge next and looked around for a bit. I ended up getting a book, Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King. I hadn't just bought a physical book to read in a while. I was reading 1984 earlier this semester and I want to finish that, but I was really craving a physical book.

So I went to the park and read several chapters of that in my car. It was an alright book. It was the first fantasy book King wrote I guess. The part I read was just describing the characters. There's a whole royal family and this evil wizard guy, Flagg. So I read that for maybe an hour.

Then I went to the UC to get food. I was going to get Janell to get me something but I think she was still at home studying or something. I snuck past the lady and used a ticket that Janell got me that they didn't take last time to get a beef burrito with queso and chips. So that was delicious. I saw Gavin in there but didn't say anything to him.

my burrito

After that I went to Walmart and all I got was a box of rice Hamburger Helper. Then I went down one of those county roads out past Walmart because I wanted to just drive around. I would say that we were about in the prime of fall right now, so all the trees and stuff were colorful. I drove for maybe 30 minutes, and it was really nice. I was going on some crazy gravel roads at one point. I ended up going to Gordonville and then to Jackson.

autumn trees

In Jackson I filled up with gas, but it stopped filling up when my car was at 3/4 tank for some reason. Then I went to Teen Challenge in Jackson, and they had some cool stuff, lots of shirts, but I didn't end up getting anything.

After that I drove back to Cape, got a small fry, and sat in the Banterra parking lot until Janell made her way over. Then we went to the Humane Society.

The Humane Society had moved to a new spot since the last time I'd been there, it was a bit of a bigger building. We went in and went to the cat room. There were a ton of cats in there, either lined up in cages on the wall or in separate rooms. She showed me the one she was interested in, I looked at some cute ones like one named Danny Devito. I got Rhea Perlman, Danny Devito's roommate, out, and she scrambled away from me and went under the cages. So Janell was freaking out, but we eventually got her out. I also liked this older cat that was really fluffy. There was a room called the Zen Room with a bunch of kittens in there, and they were anything but zen. They were crazy, but there was this one with a backwards tail that I really liked. So this was a fun trip here, I don't know how long we were here, maybe an hour.

danny devito

Afterwards I went with Janell to get Peace Love Energy, but I didn't get anything. Then she dropped me off and I went home.

At home I got some of my online quizzes for assessment done, which my mom made me study like crazy for beforehand. But I think I passed all of them, all of the questions were easily lookup-able. Then I scheduled an academic advising appointment for Monday because I realized I should have already had that scheduled a week or so ago. And then I watched the Family Fight episode of Always Sunny and then watched Order of the Phoenix. I've still been watching all the Harry Potter movies and enjoying them. And I think it was almost 3 am before I went to bed.

So that was my day, it was pretty good. Passed my check-offs, got to see cats, watched a movie, read a book. 6/10 day. Maybe 5.5/10.

11/6/25

Today was another pretty non-interesting day. I wanted to wake up early, but didn't end up getting up until around 1 pm. I guess it's because I was up until 3 am last night watching Harry Potter. But I woke up because Janell called me because she was going on about getting this one cat from the Humane Society and naming it Dory.

Janell also got home at around 1:30 because I guess she was going to study. So I talked to her some and we looked at Humane Society pets online. We also split a Trader Joe's microwave noodle thing, and then I left to go to my class at 3. I left a little early because I thought I might be able to practice my trach stuff in the lab beforehand, but I really didn't have time.

Class was alright, we were still going over cardiac drugs. On a break, Jayden said she saw me on the Tea app, so that's embarrassing. I probably should not have asked Olivia to post me on there. But then Kenzi noticed my braces were off and she said my teeth looked good, so that was nice. We were supposed to have a quiz at the end of class, but we all started leaving before Mrs. Malahy could remember that we were supposed to have one. So she gave us full credit for it, awesome.

We actually got out of class early, so I had time before work to go practice my check-offs. Jayden, Yeabsira, Noelle, Adriana, and Kylee were up there, so I watched them do their trach care. Then I practiced with Adriana some on our manikin. She also noticed I got my braces off and she told Noelle and that was a whole thing. But they said my teeth looked nice, so that's good to hear.

At 5:45 I left to go to work. Work was kind of busy again. Tyler was there until 6:30 pm, but apparently he'd been here by himself since 6 am. So that's kind of crazy. I had several ER ones, a CT scan from pavilion where the nurse had to come with me because she was on some crazy IV meds. My second one of the night was for interventional radiology, and I'd never been there, so I found the room but there was no one there. So I tried calling IR and no one answered. Then I found an ultrasound lady and had her help me, and apparently the IR lady had already taken the patient up. Like, okay. So after the first rush, I had like, two hours of nothing, and it was so boring. I started just exploring some. I went in one of the RQI rooms on the first floor for a bit and logged into my Workday on the computer in there just to waste time. I went in the one little conference room on the second floor for a bit, some random waiting room I'd never been in before, I was just wondering around. Then I got a request ten minutes before I was about to leave, so after all that, that's when I finally got a request. So I wasn't done with that until 10:50 or so. So I left immediately after that.

I went straight home after work and Janell was studying in the basement. She went upstairs soon because she was really stressed about her microbiology test tomorrow and said I was distracting her. I didn't do too much, I watched Always Sunny (the episode with Franquito) and then I went to bed.

So today was not awful. 5/10.

11/5/25

Today I woke up early at a little after 7 am, but I fell back asleep until around 11 am. So I got almost 12 hours of sleep last night. And somehow I was still kind of tired waking up. I was actually supposed to go to Spice a TKE at 11, but luckily Naethan cancelled it. So I got up and got ready for my assessment clinical at 1:00.

I left for that at 12:30 and the ladybugs outside were crazy today. There were just swarms of them everywhere. I opened my car and like, twenty of them came in with me. But anyways, I drove to class. Class was alright, strict army lady was still teaching. We were practicing our head-to-toe assessments because next week, we actually would have to perform them. She and Stephanie did an example first and then we had to practice with someone we hadn't yet, so I practiced with Teigan, which I already had before, but whatever. So that went alright, she's nice, but there is a lot of stuff to memorize for the head-to-toe.

That class got out a bit early at 3 pm, and as I was walking to the bottom of the hill, I saw Janell's car parked on Normal Street. So I called her and went over to her car. Turns out she was waiting to go up to Crisp to get her TB bloodwork done and get the flu shot. So I walked with her up there because she was scared she was going to faint in there. But once we got up there, the clinic told us they were only doing STD testing today and nothing else. So she'll do that tomorrow. Then I went with her to get her SEMO scrubs from the bookstore.

After that, we were going to meet up with my mom because I needed leather shoes for nursing clinicals and I guess Janell did, too. But first she went to Peace Love Energy (which I thought was Peace Love Nutrition until looking it up just now) to get this blue drink. She saw one of her tri deltas working in there.

Then we met mom at Brown's shoe store, which I hate, because the people who work in there get commission, so they bombard you and stick with you the whole time you're looking for shoes. But my mom loves it. So we looked at a couple of pairs that the guy picked out, and they weren't great. There was a pair of Hokas and a pair of New Balance, but they were both a little weird. So we had to tell the guy we may come back but we're gonna look elsewhere.

We rode to Nearly Perfect next with my mom, which is probably my favorite shoe store and where we should have gone to begin with. They're a lot cheaper, had more options, and you can look at shoes without someone looking over your shoulder. So I tried on some pairs there and ended up getting this white leather pair of Brooks that I liked. And they were about 100 dollars cheaper than Brown's.

After that, we went to drop Janell off back at her car because she had a headache. I wanted to eat together as a family (minus dad I guess) but yeah, she went back to her car. My mom said she would still pick me up Culver's though, so that's where we went. But then Janell pulled up next to us at a stoplight and I told her through the window we were going to Culver's and suddenly she wanted to go. So we all went to Culver's and my dream of eating together came true.

Town was really busy today so it took us a while to turn into Culver's from Kingshighway, like several minutes. But we got turned in and I ordered four chicken tenders with signature sauce. So that was delicious and exactly what I needed after only eating a beef stick all day. Janell and my mom split a burger and cheese curds. But that was some good food. There was a little girl behind our booth that kept saying some really crisp '67s' and Janell was obsessed with her.

My mom drove me to my car afterwards and I went home. Janell went to her dorm and then I think she was going to work at the church. At home I practiced my trach things on that stupid little giraffe again while my mom graded me with the rubric, and I think I did pretty good. She said I did too, but they are just so strict with every detail during check-offs, I don't know how good I'll do. I mean, I literally have to pass or I think I have to retake the class or something.

After that I talked to my parents some upstairs and then I went downstairs and ended up watching The Goblet of Fire. I've really been into these Harry Potter movies. I've never seen the movies before. And it was around 3 am before I went to bed, somehow.

So that was my day. I would give it a 5/10, it was fun hanging out with mom and sister.

11/4/25

Today I woke up fairly early, it was 7:40. I didn't get out of bed until 9 though. I got up and made some cheeseburger mac, which was Aldi brand, but was actually really good. Very creamy. I watched some old Slushy Noobz Fortnite videos and some of the Yakuza video on Patreon. Then I got dressed and left at noon to go over to Nana's to get my retainer that I left there yesterday.

I got there and got my retainer and played one round of Fortnite, and then I had to go to my class at 1 pm. When I was leaving, there were these utility trucks at the base of Franks Hill, so I waited, but Jimmy pulled up and said to just take the road next to Franks Hill, so I did, and I was on my way. Don't know why I didn't do that earlier.

Class was boring like this class always is. We went over cardiac stuff today, had our quiz, and luckily we didn't go over the group quiz because we ran out of time. After class I went up to practice my trach stuff. There were some other people up there but they were all people who were retaking it tomorrow because they're in the Wednesday group. So I left after practicing both the trach ones, which took about 20 minutes.

Then I went and got a small fry from McDonald's and then went to the gym. There were kind of a lot of people I recognized at the gym. My old philosophy teacher, Mrs. Janzow, I think I saw Kennady's brother, both of Ian Roth's parents were walking laps in there, and I think that was it. But I got a decent workout in.

I went to work at 6 pm, right after I left the gym. Tyler was there with me until 7:30 and we were both busy with requests for the first hour or so I was there. I had one from ER to surgical that I accidentally took to room 501 instead of 513 because on Epic it showed a 01 and I thought that was the room number. Oops. I had two discharges from neuro which I'd never had at this time of night. For the second one, I guess they lock the main lobby doors, so I actually got locked out, which was scary. I ended up walking all the way around to the parking garage entrance with the empty wheelchair and that door wouldn't open either, but luckily someone was coming out the sliding door, so I squeezed through when they did that. There was a whole basket of candy in the break room and I ate more of that than I should've. There were some kind of complex patients to bring to CT scan. The first was a lady from cardiac pavilion, but the request said it was from CPC, so I went to the wrong place first. Then when I got to pavilion, the lady's oxygen was like, 89%, so she wanted someone from respiratory to come up, so we waited like, fifteen minutes for her, and then both the nurse and the respiratory lady (who looked like Meredith Grey) came with me there. So there was a lot of oxygen tubes and machinery. The second to CT was this guy from med tele who was hard of hearing and was sleeping when I went in there. And I could not get him awake. I tapped his arm some and he opened his eyes a bit but was still snoring, so I think he was still asleep. So that was just kinda confusing. And there were some more ER ones, and I ended up doing nine transports tonight, which is a new record for me.

After work I got another small fry and there was actually a dead bug in the fries that I almost ate on accident. Then I went home and ate the rest of my hamburger mac I made this morning and went to bed pretty early, before midnight I think.

So today was average but not awful, 4/10.

11/3/25

Today I didn't have any classes because fundamentals was cancelled for some reason and there's still no lecture classes for assessment. So I was still at Nana's and today was still a boring day. I don't remember when I woke up, it was earlier than yesterday probably. My mom came over at about 4 pm, after she got off of work, and she brought me Taco Bell, yum. She cleaned some more, we started taking things off the walls to paint later on. My dad also came over a little after she did. But then, they decided the floors weren't that good, so my dad called Buick and he's gonna come redo them. Just as I thought we were done.

I went home at around 8 pm and I got behind my dad on the way home. At home, I talked to my mom some, tried on my new Crocs that didn't really fit, so I guess we'll return those, watched some piano videos and fell asleep before 11 pm. But I was only asleep for about five minutes before my dad yelled down to say goodnight. So then I was back up for another two hours because I couldn't fall asleep. I played some piano and watched some Always Sunny and then I fell asleep.

So there was no class today but also nothing else going on. 3/10.

11/2/25

Today I woke up at 8 am, but fell asleep and didn't wake up until after 2 pm. I did not want to sleep that long. I was still at Nana's and I only woke up because my mom called me because she was coming over here to do some cleaning. So I got up and she got here a little later.

She brought me a Culver's kids meal and a large Coke from the gas station, so that was delicious. Today was honestly another day that I did nothing. I played Fortnite quite a bit, helped clean downstairs some, went over trach suctioning some, and then went to my chapter meeting at 4.

Before I went to that, Indian Nathan wanted me to buy him a white Monster, so I did, and he said he'd pay me back, but he didn't. But I guess that's okay, he's bought me lunch like 4 times. Chapter was boring. I got signed up to run for three different executive positions. I don't even think I'm going to be in TKE next semester, so I've got to cancel those somehow. That was really it.

After chapter I went to 333 to clean because Nyk pressured me into it. We had to wait for like, half an hour for other people to even show up. Then we cleaned, we started upstairs and then went downstairs and got all the cups and cans down there. There were a lot. Then I snuck out of there whenever I could.

I went back to Nana's and finished my homework. I also made some mac and cheese and watched Always Sunny. I also watched Prisoner of Azkaban later on. I'm trying to watch all of these Harry Potter movies, I haven't seen any of them until now. And that was my night.

Today was a 3/10, super boring. But nothing bad happened I guess.

11/1/25

It's now November and today was really boring. I stayed at home doing nothing almost all day. I did catch up on a lot of my homework, but I also goofed off a lot, watching YouTube and starting to build my Lego Hotel I bought a couple of weeks ago. I think my grandparents came over for a bit today, so I talked to them some. Janell also came over later and apparently she was with Gabby and another delta, but I didn't even see her because I stayed downstairs. But that was really it.

That evening I did go over to Nana's because I needed to do something today. Just to get out of the house some. I also took my TV from upstairs over there because it's a 4K TV. And I took a basket of clothes. Some people were going out tonight, but I still didn't feel like doing that, so I drank some at Nana's. By myself. Like a loser. But it was actually a really fun time. I played some Fortnite Delulu with the new Simpson's map and met some really cool people, and I played some Roblox later on, which was not as fun as Fortnite. So that was a fun night. But that was literally it today.

So the night was fun, the day was boring. 4/10 day I guess.