"this is the real thing."

a month away now from graduation and almost done with maternal/child health, i find myself in a funk...and not the george clinton kind of funk. in the past week, i got a 77% on the first half of my final and a 76% on a peds test. in the class, i have a 84%...my lowest grade since january. perhaps it's the fact that i'm so close to graduating that i've slipped up a bit. maybe it's because i know i'm going to pass that i'm getting a little overconfident. whatever the reason is, i need to step it up...now is not the time to fall. i have three more exams this coming week and i take the second half of the final on june 16. to make things more stressful...i take the exit exam, aka. the final obstacle before graduation, on june 18.

ah...june gloom never felt so exact.

however, i've come too damn far to not excel now. seriously, i used to be a year or so away from graduation. it's become a month and soon it will be days away from july 7. this is not the time to back down from adversity. it's only fitting that the lakers are in the finals right now against the magic. i'm in my own kind of finals...i need to win and come out a champion. my time is here, my time is now. i can still get an A in maternal/child health...and i will pass that exit exam.

one of the many things i've learned during my time in nursing school is that
if you can't accept it...CHANGE it.

any time is the right time to make a difference and make something good happen.

changing things up - jl