{..::Topic::..}: the stress is starting to get to me

One week until the two part exam. I'm nowhere near ready and it's horrible. I am screwed. Royally royally screwed. So much to know, so little time. Okay I've had just under 3 weeks, but still ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Plus I still have to get one more comp. CRAP!!!

Seriously I'm losing it, slowly but surely. Stuff I already know like the back of my hand are becoming so damn confusing that I'm now further behind than when I started. It's the worst thing in the world. I understood it all well and then one person just got it all mixed up in my head. GRRR! I hate when that happens. See I'm the type of person that takes a while to fully understand something, but as soon as someone brings it up in a different way I'm gone. They just have to have another way of thinking of it and it sort of wipes out all of my hard work in understanding it. Just frustrates me to all end. Oh well, I just have to study my ass off for a week and then keep at until September... but I digress

Nothing all that much more interesting going on. No morgue visits today, and only two cases in the OR. Good news, I used the newer machine in the OR, yay for me (of course I wasn't fully alone, but I did most of it). Easier to drive, but it's a big machine. Definitely not made for short people like me.

Actually I do have a rant for the day. Stupid security. See there are only two sets of elevators at the hospital that are regularly used. The staff and visitor sets. On the same floor as x-ray there tends to be traffic jams because lots of patients coming and going from our department (and surrounding ones, ie ultrasound and CT) and stuff like that. Well any ways, workers are supposed to get off the elevator, making room for stretchers. Stretcher with patients are the main priority. But so is x-ray. Especially when we are a STAT. Whatever. That's just how it goes. Usually you can get a stretcher and the portable x-ray in the elevator. So today we got there before anything else and once it was free we got in but there was a stupid security guy (I guess directing traffic or being an ass, I'm personally leaning towards the latter). So any ways, we were to get off after the stretcher so we went in first but we had to get the machine in the corner, a little awkward. Usually it goes good though. Unforunately the stupid security guy would not move so we couldn't get our machine in properly, and then our machine acted up on us and we couldn't move quick enough for the ass. The short end of the stick, he kicked us off. Then he had the nerve of making it seem like we were the assholes. All because there was a patient that had come down with his family (which really isn't supposed to be, but whatever). The security guy decided that becuase we were taking a little more time that it was therefore probably making the patient's family feel like they weren't important. So instead our poor patients on the wards that are too sick to come to the department have to wait because the security guy felt the patient on the stretcher and his family thought they weren't important enough. UGH!!! When we finally did get on, we told the guy that when we're on STAT we have the right to kick everyone off, but he just tried to make it seem like who cares and that patient's on stretchers with family come first because they shouldn't have to wait. Any ways I digress... It just was frustrating. I'm not exactly discribing this the way I want to, but my head is moving faster than my hands and it's easier to explain not in typing but oh well...

Any ways, I'm tired and I still have to do more studying. Later dayz...

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{..::current..mood::..} hungry and tired
{..::currently..reading::..} Principles of Radiographic Imaging
{..::currently..watching::..} Kate and Leopold (yum Hugh Jackman)
{..::currently..listening::..} Kate and Leopold *drool*
{..::useless.fact.of.the.day::..} In 1971, the postal code was introduced in Ottawa, Ontario.
{..::alias.quote.of.the.day::..} SYDNEY: you look great. . . you lost weight?
WEISS: oh, thanks, yeah. i sort of gave up all the foods that i enjoy. i'm miserable, but i look really good.

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