I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."

-Henry Wordsworth Longfellow


To those who are sad, sick, or alone today: best wishes and much love.

To those who are happy and surrounded by loved ones: best wishes and have joy of each other.

To those who are spending today someplace distant and dangerous so that the rest of us may be safer: best wishes, much love, and thank you.

Merry Christmas, everybody.

where you post the first line from each month, which is probably about as much of an annual summary as I am capable of at the moment.

January: I went to the Winter Classic today.

February: Tonight at work one demented homeless patient told me I was a bitch because I wouldn't bring him cookies (we don't keep them on the unit and he wasn't allowed to have sweets anyway) and by another demented homeless patient that I was the sweetest girl for bringing him ice cream (which we do keep on the unit and which he was allowed to have).

March: If OkCupid is to be believed, my soulmates are all either lesbians from commonwealth countries or het male Canadian jocks.

April: I had a sudden burst of energy two nights ago at exactly 12:05 AM, and unlike such bursts it has actually lasted for several days, and the result is that my living room and kitchen are so clean that I went to rest my head on one of the cats (this is what they get for sleeping on the back of the sofa) and noticed that his fur smelled actively good from laying on the super-clean and nicely scented carpets.

May: I heart Havlat.

June: My life contains a dearth of extreme cuteness and an excess of ants.

July: I have a yen to visit Iceland.

August: Macbeth is a much more coherent play when Lady Macbeth is a hottie.

September: I keep smelling jelly donuts really intensely in my room, which contains no jelly donuts.

In October, I failed to update LJ even once. Bad emmy!

November: Holy mother of God, online job applications are the WORST THING EVER.

December: I graduated from nursing school yesterday.

I am a terrible diarist and something of a spaz, but there's my year in review, anyway.

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I graduated from nursing school yesterday. I had to speak during the ceremony, and I was sitting up on stage stressing about it, mentally running over my reading and not even half-listening to the award presenter describing the qualities of the winner of the leadership award sponsored by a local hospital.

I would have paid a lot more attention if I realized she was talking about me, heh. Sooo I'm not quite certain what their justification was for picking me since I was spaced out pretty hard during the presentation, but now I have a shiny brass plaque, a shiny gold nursing school pin, and a not so shiny but dearly won diploma.

Hopefully soon I'll have a nursing job, too. The market is grim- I've filled out 57 applications to date and had exactly two calls, but one of them was a phone interview with a hospital in Fayetteville, NC, and it went well enough that they want me to come up for a site visit.

Fayetteville, aka Fayettenam, is not exactly my dream city, but my boyfriend Brendan will be stationed there for the special forces q course next year. I would miss my friends in Tallahassee terribly but barring an unexpected job offer here, staying isn't really an option. I do have one interview here coming up, but I have reason to believe it's a formality and that they're going to choose a classmate of mine who has been working in that department for some time already as a tech. I'm a good student, a good nurse, and a good interviewee, but none of that is likely to count for much against the fact that they already know and really like her.

So I'm nervous, but very very happy. Nursing school was a grueling experience but I got so much out of it on every level, and now it's done. I love the field I'm going into, and I'm lucky to be at a place in my life where I have the flexibility to go nearly anywhere and do nearly anything. I'm also lucky enough to have an amazing boyfriend who makes me stupidly happy and has been incredibly supportive throughout the last few months of chaos. So stressful as the last few weeks have been, and stressful as the job search, probable move, and first year of nursing practice are likely to be, I'm feeling good and really excited about what the future will bring.