May 10--Already May? Mae?

[zyzyly]

I have been plodding along, trying my best to make it to the end of this semester intact. It feels like it has been going on forever. I think there are about two weeks left. I am all done with lectures and clinical stuff and preceptorships. Now it's just getting ready for finals, writing evaluations, letters of reference, and all that kind of stuff.

I have been planning to take a Friday off for a few weeks, but have been thwarted up until today. I had plans to go in this morning, but decided there is nothing I need to do that can't wait until next week. Malida is off as well, so we will do something together. I think we will go up to the iris farm and see if they are still in bloom, then have some lunch at the High Hand Nursery.

I got the results of my Holter monitor test the other day. Much to my surprise, I have a lot more arrhythmias than I thought. Most of them are not as fast as the one I captured on my watch, and they last for less than 15 seconds. It kind of explains why sometimes I think I feel something happening, but when I check my pulse it is normal. Or back to normal I guess.

So now I have an appointment with a cardiologist coming up. He is one of the old school guys who I know from when I was an ICU nurse. I'm surprised he hasn't retired yet.

I'm making plans for how I want to spend my summer. I have some work stuff to do in June--a three day class on simulation and a couple of weeks of work on this project I am undertaking. That should take me to about the third week of June, and after that I am off until about the middle of August. We are going to Thailand at the end of July, so it gives me about a month of really not having to do much of anything. I imagine taking a bunch of day and overnight trips up to places where I can practice my landscape and star photography.

I joined the local photography group and signed up for one of their classes on star trails. I kind of already know how to do it, but it would be good to be able to practice it with someone who has been doing it for a long time.

I've been giving some thought to why I pretty much stopped writing here. It wasn't really a conscious decision, but it was more that I kind of got tired of hearing myself. I am thinking that when summer comes along, and I am doing different things, that might change.



The eastern Sierras from the Manzanar internment camp. Highly stylized.

Comments

[luscious_purple]

That's an incredible photograph. Marvelous.

[mallorys_camera]

For what it's worth, you're one of my favorite diarists on DW or on LJ. You're droll and insightful. It's a sideways glance at life that lingers on quirky details, and I like it a lot. If you do stop writing here, I will miss you. But, of course, I understand it.

You're a really talented photographer.

I also think the BS associated with the accreditation process has been wearing you down. And, of course, finding out you're having more arrhythmias than you'd suspected must be sobering, possibly even depressing.

[zyzyly]

Thanks!

[zyzyly]

Well thanks! I don't think I will stop writing, I just need to get my head back in alignment. I think you are right about all the various things you mentioned. Summer break is a week away, and I am looking forward to it.

[mallorys_camera]

The hoops we had to go through at Highland whenever JCAH came round were nerve-wracking.