The Penguin Papers

Just a side note: I'll write on and off here for the next little while, hopefully with more regularity than in the past, but keep your eyes out for changes here at The Penguin Papers - a new look, a new home. I'm hoping to have this done within the next few weeks and certainly before classes resume, barring any major life interruptions. One can only hope. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

So, huh. It'll be October in just a few hours and just today I realized that it's been several months since I've posted. The summer flew by and I'm still wondering where it went, even though I know the answer to that question, anyway. My absence initially coincided with the flurry that was summer semester, the eight weeks of chaining myself to a widely varied number of nursing textbooks. Summer classes ended in early August so I began my "summer vacation" later than everyone else in the house. Now it's time to prepare myself for the grind that will be the remainder of my Associates Degree in Nursing program. I'm anxious to get started but also wary of what I'll become once classes begin. This summer was lost to the books. I spent easily 5-6 hours a day studying, sandwiched in between hour-long jaunts to my parents' pool to cool off with the kids. So, now it's time to gear up for October 20, when I start the remainder of my Associates Degree...