The Mundane and the Manic

Hello February! I'm Stu, and right now I'm neck-deep in facts, facts I have to jam in the ole brain before Friday. Why Friday, you may ask? That's the opening day for my clinical exam for the RN degree I'm seeking in life. Oh yeah, I'm a fireman at my day job, which is really a day and night job, considering that I spend 24 hours at a time there.

Okay, so much for the manic part of me. Now the mundane...I'm an email junkie, and my regular internet habits make a daily cycle in this order: bellsouth.net and yahoo to check mail, then to ninetyandnine.com (where you happen to be also at this moment) and finally to an old friendly site but with no monthly fees, aol.com for news and weather. Not real exciting, but remember that the manic side of me is winning right now in my autonomous nervous sytem war. I am feeding the parasympathetic side as well: chocolate, ice tea, and pizza today, in case you asked.

Please allow me to apologize in advance: I will be absent from the blog this Friday and Saturday, as I will be at the test site (tba) giving mock injections and actual ones, performing things that only an RN can perform, and sweating. Following this exam, I have the NCLEX, or national boards to pass, which will happen in a couple of months.

Thanks go to Mrs. C. for her unwavering confidence in my ability to juggle many things in life, and also she is hereby sent the bill if I snap and go off for psych treatment as a result of adding too much to my already encumbered life.

So, kick back, become obsessive about reading my blog, and soon I'll introduce you to the guys at the firehouse, observe their habits, and update you with what my wife heard about the flick, "Brokeback Mountain." Her friend at work went unwillingly with spouse and assumed she could "close [my] eyes during any steamy scenes." She reported that she had her eyes closed for the entire movie almost. So may I (in advance) officially cry "FOUL" whenever this film is mentioned in conversation as being a "good" movie.

Listening to NPR as an alarm method this morning, I hear the Bush bash after the speech so many times at 6:45 that the clock barely avoids becoming a projectile. I dubbed NPR as "National Partisan Radio" during the last elections when the bashing got downright ugly. But until I save up for an XM or Sirius, I will continue to listen, selectively. I mean, when Bob Edwards got the axe, I pulled the plug for about six months on NPR. But now, I'm using the liberal banter as the alarm to wake up, and occasionally hear something on there that hasn't been run through the liberal filter.

I will post links to all these areas mentioned as soon as I "figger it out." Thanks for your patience.

So don't delay, go by a valentine today for your person of betrothal or affection...before prices go up. I wonder if anyone's ever tried to freeze a dozen $29.99 red roses for a couple weeks, only to dethaw on Feb. 14 and present them in all their glory and implied $79.99 price to the sweetheart? Any takers?

Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail me!