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About Me

so, this is my new love. you watch it now!

For Michael and all the other underdogs in the world: I love you, buddy. I'm glad I met you, and I don't know how I could have gotten through the first semester of nursing school without you. I'm sorry I didn't do the same for you.

My Interests

I like to read and knit and bang my head to metal music. I'm a new nurse; so new I squeak, and I'm studying to pass the NCLEX, so I can have "RN" after my name. I love people and hate them at the same time. So I'm the perfect nurse!

I'd like to meet:

Maya Angelou and Ozzy Osbourne... and Tony Iommi, and Mahatma Ghandi. And Kimya Dawson, because I think she'd actually be somebody I could get to know.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White

Music:

Ozzy and Black Sabbath, first, last, and in-between. Kimya Dawson, who is funny and courageous and beautiful in her own homely way; kind of like me, sort of. Johnny Cash and Hank 3. Slip Knot and Pantera. Alannis Morrissette. Deicide. Meatloaf. John Lennon's "Imagine" album. Sepultura. Cradle of Filth. Janis Joplin. Lamb Of God.

Movies:

"The Grapes of Wrath." "Requiem For a Dream." "American History X." "Beavis and Butthead Do America." "Billy Jack." "Jeremiah Johnson." "Shrek."

Television:

No TV for me! I need to pay the bill...

Books:

Steven King, mysteries, Nursing Textbooks with gross pictures...

Heroes:

My husband, who lives through adversity every day. My oldest son, home safe from Iraq. My youngest son, for living with me all these years. Me, for working so hard to be a nurse, something I hadn't even dared to dream of for most of my life.

My Blog

my patient died last night.

I admitted him on Friday, and last night, I zipped a body bag over his face.It was a peaceful death, and his face was almost smiling as it disapeared under the rubberized fabric.Five minutes before he...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:48:00 PST

today, I WISH I could believe in god.

so I could pray.I’d pray to keep my oldest and youngest babies safe while they are so far away from me.I’d pray for the end of the war; for the end of all wars, for that matter. If I&rsquo...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:07:00 PST

this is so hard...

Do you know how much pain there is in the world? And real, deep, searing terror with no end? No you don't. not really.it's no wonder I can hardly listen to a lot of the metal music I used t...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:05:00 PST

36 hours in 72!

Yes, I have worked my very first three-twelve-hour-shifts-in-a-row, finishing last night. So how did it go? One word: pain. both mine and patients'. So, I have definitely heard nurses say that all the...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:39:00 PST

Life is hard.

I met a boy one cold day in December of 2005. We had very little in common, and yet we were the same. It was nursing school orientation! Finally, we were starting on a great journey we had been packin...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:41:00 PST

"I feel the excitement only a free man can feel...

at the beginning of a long journey whose outcome is uncertain."So, I start working tomorrow. Well, not really, but I do start getting over $20 an hour tomorrow. and no, money isn't all that impor...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:10:00 PST

So, I was just thinking...

One of my myspace friends, one that scares me a little and whom I would never want to meet in real life, sent out a bulletin declaring "2008 the year of hate." and I know it rhymes and...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:17:00 PST

Why do people say, "Merry Christmas?"

Not everybody celebrates Christian Holidays, you know.I know it's meant as a gesture of good will, but I think it's a bit self-absorbed for a stranger such as a store clerk to wish people a "Merry Chr...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:59:00 PST

Sometimes people just suck so hard.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_DOUBLE_HOMICIDE_FL OL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME Poor baby. Poor mama. Poor other girl who got set on fire. Poor guy who tried to help ...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:25:00 PST

don’t anybody read this one.

Why am I awake again??? I so much just want to sleep and sleep and sleep. And yet, after maybe one and a half hours, I am awake. again. awake awake awake. I guess I'll sleep when I get tired eno...
Posted by Ozzy Rules on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:37:00 PST