Homework and Hurricanes

So, a couple of years ago I decided it would be really cool to go to graduate school and get my masters in nursing. My poor husband did warn me, how are you going to manage work, home, boys, your essential wine drinking habit!! - no problem was my reply. I should have listened to him. On the whole I am having a wonderful time in grad school, I am energized by my peers, learning some really cool concepts and theories that are directly related to my job, it helped me get my dream job (more on that later) but you have to do that dam homework!! And so for the past 2 years whenever I am in class the family lives on frozen pizza, everyone does their own laundry, the iron and ironing board are obsolete and the dog looks at me morosely as if to say "Am I ever going to get walked again", and then Colin looks at me morosely as if to say "Am I ever going to get walked again!!!". So right now I am in a particularly intense class dealing with scarce resources in nursing, recent legislative interpretation - wont bore you but it has been very time consuming and lots of research and writing - end result is I have not slept much for the past 5 weeks, one more week to go and I can get back to semi-normal living (if that is ever possible in our house).

So, what with crying about Joe (down to one box of Kleenex a day now - yeah for me!!), work being crazy and an intense grad school class I was sooo looking forward the concert we had tickets for on Saturday night, Ben Folds and the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra in an outside arena - marvelous, love Ben he is raw and funny has great lyrics and wonderful melodies, and I have to say in our old age we are becoming a little cultured and like the odd spot of chamber music. We were really looking forward to it and then.....we found out the remnants of Hurricane Hannah were going to hit us the exact time the concert was going on. Because we are the epitome of mad dogs and Englishmen we did not even consider to cancel, we even got 2 wonderful friends, Dave and Kristi to come with us!! No, we just shoved on the waterproofs, a disposable pair of flip flops and out we went. Rained cats and dogs, wind blew a gale but we had a wonderful time, and Ben was awesome!!

Now looking forward to another crazy week, dealing with adolescents at home and at work. Final week of my class (pray I get good grades), Colin leaves on a trip to goodness knows where ( cant keep up) but I am looking forward to a wedding next weekend, one of the docs in clinic is getting married so the whole of clinic is going to cheer her on - should be a good bun fight!!!