Toads-in-the-Hole

It seems a bit odd to use this forum for straight-up, unfiltered announcements, but since we’ve announced the purchase of a speedboat on these newly-born pages, I guess we might announce other items, milestones, events as well ...

Finally, after five months of waiting, my tenure on the short list has ended; this September, I will begin nursing school. The letter arrived in Wednesday’s mail, and yet I still hardly know what to say to this opportunity ... Except ...

Except that I’m really excited to be a student with Joel again. Academically, we ought do much better this time around, I think ...

Except that maybe we’ll be able to have lunches at home ... Together.

Except that I’m a little nervous about the math, especially the drug math ...

Except ... Wow. I’m going to be responsible for the drug math!

Except that I wonder what kind of nurse I’ll be, beyond a chosen specialty. Joel says that the Hallmark greeting card company depicts nurses as either sadistic or promiscuous ... I wonder about that, too ...

Except that I wonder if I’ll really have to wear that little white nurses’ bonnet that was for sale at the Coyote Bookstore when we visited Vermillion in January ...

Except that I’m eager not have to write another essay answering the question: “Why I want to be a nurse.” Now, I can get down to the dirty work of learning to use a syringe and discovering the hidden secrets of the Islets of Langerhans ...

Hmmm ...

Except that in South Dakota (of all places), in the Triplex on the Prairie, I’ll learn to be a nurse.

Except I’m truly thrilled ...And thankful.