random thought...

i'm thinking...

...it would be pretty fun to start a band, call it Deleted by Artist, then write a song called Song Has Been. i bet that would cause at least slight hilarity on the part of myspace users.

i haven't been so freaked out by a storm since i was 6

so, i love storms. i mean, they're basically amazing. they don't scare me and i sleep right through them.

tonight, not so much.

it was already raining pretty hard with lots of thunder by the time i went to bed, but i fell asleep easily enough. then i got jolted out of a very strange dream by my bed actually shaking with the thunder. i was going to go back to sleep but my heart was beating soooo hard. so i got up and opened my computer, to check one of those nice convenient animated weather maps. i don't think i'll be relying on that website anymore, because all it showed was a small light storm over denton county. of course right after i saw that i heard the tornado/severe weather sirens going off. so i woke my parents and told them, and we brought the dogs inside and went down to the basement to watch the weather channel. we were under a tornado warning and a flash flood warning, but once both were past we came back up to bed.

of course it's just my luck that i can't sleep now. i mean, after being scared awake and having to go deal with my dogs, who were freaking out...my heart is still beating really hard.

agh. oh well. i will be tired tomorrow but at least i'll have a sort of fun story.

"Horacio! Horacio Hornblower!"

since i'm wide awake anyway...

here's an update on what's been going on in my life. some of you already know a lot of this.

i am transferring away from sam houston to...well...that's TBD i guess. but i'm also changing my major from music education to nursing, and so i am currently spending every waking hour on summer school...hence the no blogging. :) i have a lot of hours to get out of the way, plus the NET test, before i can even apply to nursing school. 55 total prerequisite hours...40 to be completed before applying. so, yeah...basically i'm taking 20 hours just this SUMMER. i've got about 6 out of the way already from shsu...so i'll have to take something like 14-17 hours this fall, and another 13 in the spring (all at northlake, which means...i'm staying in flo mo for a year!).

the "plan" is just tentative, and depends very much on my grades, financial issues, and my own personal preference. there are two schools that i am really seriously looking at for nursing. one of them is texas tech...and then theoretically i could start there in july of 2008 and live with my best friend, who will also be going there for nursing. the other is a new discovery...my brother recently informed me that the main thing his school (Belmont) is great for aside from music is nursing. and, basically...i know i love the campus, i love tennessee, and i LOVE my brother--who i would get to see all the time if i went there! as Ryan said, i've had to make a lot of "grown-up decisions" lately...which i think has kind of been good for me. an encouraging thought is that my brother couldn't stop saying how happy he was for me, how proud he was that i'm working hard...he said it was "good to hear [me] so passionate about something." i guess no one's heard me that passionate, at least not about learning, in over a year.

after discussing things with some of my fellow science majors, i think that in the fall i am going to start volunteering at one of the area hospitals, in either the ER or the pediatric ward. i would get to start doing what i want to do, and not have to wait until i graduate to get some experience! and aside from how much i will enjoy it, if i can get in good with some of the doctors, they might be willing to write me recommendations when i apply to nursing school.

i am so...so...SO excited. granted, i never sleep anymore, but psh, sleep is for the weak! but not really. it's actually really bad for you to lose a lot of sleep all the time, so DON'T DO IT PEOPLE! :) still...i love my classes, i love my teachers, and i love my new friends from school! we may work hard, but we have fun.

all that to say...so many changes have been and are being made in my life...and i like it! i could go on and on about how much i love my science classes and how excited i am to become a nurse...oh wait, i already have.