Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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.