i love it

all they ask you to do is run around the lake with lots of nice, fun people, and then they give you free stuff and feed you. if you ask me that is one heck of a deal. they also take $5 off the registration price for the st. patty's day dash.

today i worked with a patient who had a total knee replacement surgery and lots of accompanying complications. of course i was paranoid that the doctor was going to tell me i was next...
but fortunately he said there is nothing structurally wrong with my knee. i will do 6 weeks of physical therapy and then see how it feels. i have been thinking about rehab nursing for a while. maybe i'll see about seeing about it over the summer, since it looks like i'm going to have to be here anyway.

tomorrow i go to the o.r.
everytime i say that i think about rushmore when:

max fisher says to luke wilson: "nice nurse's scrubs."
luke wilson: "they're o.r. scrubs."
max fisher: "o. r. they?"

that will never not be funny to me. i love it.

it will be nice to be in a different environment away from the same old things, away from the crazy instructor (who, by the way, completely LOVES me now. bi.polar. in the last 5 days everyone else has somehow magically gotten on her bad side and now i am her favorite. things that i don't understand: #1.), and to see what nurses do in this other world. i think:
it will either be totally awesome;
or
completely suck.
we shall see.