Lately:

I have very little to update you all about, but here are a few tid bits: I spend my days working, studying, or dickin' around and feeling guilty that I am not studying. It's a nice little cycle.

Also with all this free time and limited finances and no car I've been thinking and writing and reading quite a bit. Sometimes to my own demise. I feel I used to be more free with my thoughts and in my writing, I'd like to think I can get that back, but we'll see. Maybe my time spent pursuing science and medicine has beat all the creativity out of me.
I know that is not true, I think science and art actually stem from the same place.

I'm reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, and have become slightly obsessed with vampires. The community college offers a class that studies vampires through art and literature and film. Break me off a piece of that (wha? it just came out). I think I might take it and ballet next semester, that is if I'm still here, which is debatable.

In nursing news, it looks like I unofficially, officially have my dream job on the Neonatal ICU. I just have to pass my boards (AHH!). If all goes as planned (which it rarely does) I will start mid-October.

Merton said this to me today, " Fair day of recollections in the novitiate chapel, and I was happy in it and accepted its imperfections, and accepted everything. That is all that is needed. When you accept what you have, you see all that you have received is more than enough and you are overwhelmed. I desire other things because I fear to be content with what I have- I fear it is inglorious. In the last few days I have seen what matters is to be humble enough to admit that I am content with just this. Leave the rest to God."