In other news

Life is moving along in its' January slowness. Except at work, which has been quite busy. Not in a bad way, for me at least, but busy nonetheless. Why do people keep arriving at hospital? Flu season? Unhappy? Life getting them down? Needing increased care? I don't know, we have not been crazy busy on our floor, but the rest of the hospital has been non-stop. Which eventually affects us. I was walking into work and thinking, 'I feel like I am doing more than 1 job at the moment'. Which normally happens for me, being educator, you end up doing some of everything. Or at least on our floor that is the case. Which makes my job interesting and always changing, which is good, it keeps me interested. But every so often I feel that I would like it to slow down just a bit. Today was also very busy, but I was mostly focussed on 1 patient for the morning, so really it helped me feel less like being-pulled-in-all-directions, as compared to yesterday when I was doing groups on the unit and orienting a person who was new to the unit and doing a few other things as well.

I have an essay due in my course already-for this upcoming Tuesday. Apparently, I am becoming laissez-faire about writing, as I am quite fine about doing it the weekend before. When I started school for my bachelor's, I was all 'I have to write this as soon as possible because it will take me forever' Now I am all 'Whatever, I'll do it and get it done in time to hand in'

It is an interdisciplinary course and the social worker from our unit is in it. We are in a group together, along with another nurse from Alberta, who is quite lovely. I feel optimistic about it. The group that is, the course, who knows?

We have Family Day now! Hurrah for another stat! I wonder if we will go to Hotsprings? Maybe I could convince Richard to go to Vancouver for a couple nights?