November is beautiful

Really, it is. I know it always gets a bad reputation, but I have been really reveling in November this year- the subdued but still multi-hued palette, the melancholy, the way all the remaining flowers have given themselves over to fluffy white stuff. It's a very witchy time of year. I want to cast spells in the woods and make potions out of roots and such things.
Actually, I want to do anything other than what I need to be doing, it seems.
Procrastination, you are not my friend. And yet I can't seem to give you up. Like a bad relationship, I keep telling myself I will let you go, but while my words say no, my actions keep inviting you in.
Any bad habit or unexpelled vice feels all the more frightening to me now as we come nearer to beginning our journey towards parenthood. Trying to find a healthy balance between acceptance and complacency. It is part of my work right now to accept that we are where we are while simultaneously striving to grow and shed the old skin to make room for the new.

weather, pets, and clinicals

March has roared in. We're in the midst of an ice storm of sorts, not too bad but all the little trees are bent double and all the branches are curved and hanging low giving the land a surreal look. We're thinking of adopting another dog, or possibly another cat, or both. We went to our county's animal shelter today which was depressing, to say the least. No luck there, but the neighboring county's highly superior and much less sad SPCA had a promising dog. We're going to bring the current pup there to meet him, and if they get along we might go for it.

School is going well enough. After a perfect storm of seasonal depression, sleep deprivation, difficult clinicals, and a rejection from an internship I had really wanted the waters were choppy there for a few weeks, but I am feeling a lot better now. I really like doing clinicals, now that I have gotten the hang of it. I've been on a med-surg floor in a hospital plus another nursing home rotation. Only one week left of each of those and then I'll switch to pediatrics and OB. Yay!!