28 June 2008

Advice For Myself

Don't go to Home Depot on a Saturday morning before 9am if you are 1) a woman 2) alone and 3) wearing anything other than a turtleneck, baggy pants, and maybe a head scarf. I do not think any girl deserves the kind of lechering, grinning and mental pawing that I encountered while trying to pick up packing tape this morning. Girls, please remember - Sunday afternoons at Home Depot are packed with families and therefore safe. Saturday mornings are for contractors who forgot to stop and refocus after getting trashed ogling girls at the Admiral on Lawrence. Avoid these people at all costs.

Never say to your husband, "Don't worry honey, I will have the apartment all packed up when you return". Because, HA! You will drink too much the night before (and fall down the stairs, WTF) and you will not want to pack all day. And your cats will frolic in the open boxes like it is the kitty Wisconsin Dells (slide, pam, slide!) and shed all over your pots and pans which were previously the only items in the house which had not seen the underbelly of a feline.

Do not check the NCLEX website every 5 minutes to see if your results are posted. THEY ARE NOT. Every message board and piece of official literature tells you they will not be available for 48 hours. So relax. Your fate as a RN is in someone else's hands and just because you are a highstrung nursing student (and possibly, a nurse, but how would you know?)those 48 hours aren't going by any faster.

Do not think of combining drinking and packing. Especially before noon.

Wait until at least 12:30pm.

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