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my thoughts and … thoughts
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I’m going to try and do NaNoWriMo again this year (add me, jujujuniper, if you want any more accountabilibuddies!), and honestly? I may be able to win … I have been spending a lot of time coming up with the plot and characters for my project, and the level of excitement I have for it
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I’ve gone over, like, seven different drafts of this post and haven’t seemed to be able to word it in a way that sounds cohesive. In one version, I sounded incredibly whiny, albeit unintentionally so, and in another, I could not manage to maintain a thought for any longer than a sentence or two. So
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As a graduation from nursing school gift, my family bought me an iPad Pro, something that I’d been wanting for years but just didn’t have the money for, and for the first couple of weeks after I’d turned it on, I played with it and tried my hand at a few of the Apple products
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I’ve been having kind of an existential crisis over the past couple of weeks, and part of it is due to the fact that I turn 40 in a few months. I know, I know, age is but a number, but 40? It’s kind of a big deal. Like … okay, the concept of being
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Until my mid-thirties, I didn’t realize I’d been raised evangelical Christian. Yeah, it was a weird time for me for multiple reasons, but I digress. Over the past several years, I’ve been deconstructing, which has been both incredibly embarrassing but also empowering, but mostly on the side of the former because like … I actually
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A lot of shit has happened over the past 30 days. I’ve been busy with work, completed ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) training finally, was invited to be a bridesmaid to my friend’s destination wedding next year (eep!), and I got Covid a second time, which basically depleted the rest of the PTO that was
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Well, I went to Bonnaroo this year! Will I go back again? Probably, actually, if the lineup intrigues me as much as this year’s did. Was it as iconic as other years? I mean, not really. Sure, Sofi Tukker, Lil Nas X, Rina Sawayama, the Pixies, Tyler Childers, Kendrick Lamar, and the Foo Fighters gave
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I feel like my kidney stone became a part of my personality about three months into dealing with her. People would ask me how I was and would often include, “is Karen still with us?” Anytime someone would ask me to go somewhere with them, I’d be like, “well, I hurt a lot so I
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Back when I was first being treated for Karen the Kidney Stone, when she was merely 8.4 mm and when I didn’t have hydronephrosis, I felt it was a little weird that I wasn’t being referred to a specialist, especially since the kidneys are finicky fuckers, but I kept my mouth shut and took the
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So I went to the emergency department (ED) today literally right at the beginning of my shift because I 1) was diaphoretic, 2) was tachypneic, 3) had tunnel vision, 4) was dizzy, 5) was nauseated, and 6) felt tingling/numbness in my fingers, right before I got blinding flank pain and nearly passed out in front
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