My last day at Event 360 was on Wednesday so I am officially full time working towards my new career as a nurse. As everyone knows I was hoping to start taking classes as soon as January 27th, next Thursday. Well, after spending an entire day trying to get all of my paperwork in order so that I could register I ultimately determined that the classes I wanted to take were all full. This is particularly sad because I waited in several long lines, including a particularly painful 2 hour line, to find out I wasn’t going to be able to get into the classes I want.
Then today I went to the DMV for the 3rd time. The first time was to get my NY State driver’s license. The second time was to try and register the car, but some of my paperwork was out of date. The third time (today) was to try and register the car with current paperwork but it turned out I needed a copy of Matt’s driver’s license. So I am the lucky devil that gets to go back to the DMV for a fourth time! Good thing I don’t have a full time job anymore, I would never get this car registered…
Well, I better get started on resume updating and essay application writing.
Friday | January 21, 2005 at 7:05 pm
[Dan assumes an academic look -- a rash assumption, maybe, but, undaunted ... and says:] I propose a distinction here.
Waiting in too many too-long lines to find out you can’t get classes you need — yes, that fits your category of “working towards my new career as a nurse.”
However, most or all of the DMV visits are properly chargeable to “The Move”, a non-career or career-auxiliary category of unpaid labor, like getting the apartment squared away.
It is entirely possible that this enlightened distinction has no practical value. However, the cost is not great.
I wish you a decrease of procedural frustrations.
Saturday | January 22, 2005 at 1:44 am
Deb, we’re going to miss you at E360. The virtual office just won’t be the same.
Saturday | January 22, 2005 at 1:51 am
And I hit post too fast…as you head off to nursing school, I thought you might enjoy reading this blog:
http://kerilee.blogdrive.com/
She’s one of my friends from college (Matt might recognize her if he saw her picture, she was in my house). Like you, she decided mid-career to switch to nursing (unlike you, she was in TV journalism - she was an on-air reporter in Green Bay). Her blog isn’t always about nursing school, but there are a couple of key posts in there that you might be interested in. Check out the one about her doing her rounds in the OB ward. You thought cat-puke was bad…
And I should get back to studying.