Volunteerism

Apart from a few pieces of broken furniture and other loose ends, my apartment is all set up now. This clears the way for me to start focusing on other things.

As far as my job at the hospital goes, I took and passed the first TB test last week, and am having the second test today. With any luck this test should clear too, and I'll have my orientation/begin work in early/mid March.

The second thing I need to get on/back to is working on my Precalculus. I'm not actually behind schedule on this, since the Calculus summer course I plan on taking is offered only in the second session, but it's important that I stay on pace.

I've been a bit off-track the last week, enjoying my new desk and tv. I suppose it's fair enough to allow myself a week or two for that though, after all the moving. I plan to keep taking it easy for the last four days in February, and I'll get working on the math much more seriously as soon as March begins. Once March begins, I'll also start thinking about ways to find a doctor I can shadow.

That's more of a long term search, and I don't need to find someone this year: in fact, I shouldn't bother finding someone until I've taken the Calculus course. If I do badly in it and go for nursing school rather than medical school, I wouldn't want to be shadowing an M.D. in the first place. It could be a difficult search though, so I should start working on it by and by.

And We're Back!

Moving... not so fun.

The movers themselves made great time, which I thought was fantastic, until I realized that most everything had been broken or damaged. Most of the things are still usable, and just have little chips, so it's not a complete disaster. It's just really annoying. I lost the box with all my computer wires and speakers too... I don't /think/ it was stolen, because that stuff is worth just about nothing. And there were much better boxes a thief could have pilfered. Go figure.

Setting up the new place with utilities has taken longer than I wanted as well. Today I'm finally back up with cable/internet/phones though. I'm typing this from my floor instead of a desk, but lets ignore that; the desk should be good to go soon. The place itself is really nice, although the wall along the hallway doesn't seem to block sound all that well (which, given my sporadic evenings of "let's sing along to loud music" is probably worse for my neighbors than for me... I'll do my best to be nice though.)

Apart from the move annoying me to no end, things have been going well. I'm waking up at 8:00/9:00 without an alarm everyday now, my insomnia has vanished, I'm getting out and running, and I have time to cook (which means I get to eat healthier food as well). I've been going to a theology/chatechetical course at a nearby greek orthodox church for fun, and unless I fail my TB test (.... which had better not happen...) I'm going to be set with my volunteer job at Georgetown University Hospital.

Well, I have lots of stuff to take care of, but I'm here again. I'll get back to updating this on a reasonably regular basis.