Awe inspired...

As I was flying over the beautiful terrain of Alaska the other day I was amazed at what one often takes for granted. I kind of got trigger happy on my camera out the plane window... and despite what one would think pictures can turn out pretty cool even out the side of a plane moving hundreds of miles an hour! It is just that feeling one gets when nature is so beautiful and all you can do is take a deep breath, smile, and take it all in (hoping not to miss a single thing) ...it is just so peaceful. Travel takes me to Denali national park today, so I am excited to see some more of nature's splendor :)

one down...

I had my first interview today, and I am not exactly sure how I feel about it? It lasted maybe 15 minutes (which definately added to my anxiety), and I just couldn't gauge how it went.... which pretty much sucks. I guess I was just expecting something more definative before I moved...but I do get to move on to round two (meeting the other clinicians on their treatment team)...which is better than a pat on the shoulder and a thank you for my interest in the position?! I guess I was hoping that things fell into place sooner. I just keep second guessing the responses to some of my questions during the interview, (which doesn't help that due to the very short duration were not very many)! I just don't know if the fact that I am REALLY interested in working for them came across? Ah well what is done is done.... just got to be all smiles for round two and sell myself on the popularity round (aka lunch meeting with the other clinicians to see if I "fit" in)

It is finished!!!

So I took my licensure exam today... and I PASSED! That is officially the last major test that I will EVER have to take! That is unless I go back for my doctorate,( cause you can never say never).... but it is not looking like that will happen... So all in all I am extremely relieved! It is time to unpause my life and see where it will take me :)

A wrinkle in time

I have spent the last couple of nights in Twinfalls... and that is the longest I have been here since I left four years ago. A lot has changed... It is weird though, I am not sure which has changed more?... is it me, or is it this tired little city? I had some down time and I drove around just taking it all in. It was very surreal to think that it was almost six years ago that I began my educational journey here... and last weekend I earned my final right of passage from the world of acadademia into the professional world. I spent a bit of the morning and evening spending some quality time with memories sparked into consciousness by landmarks, and it amazes me at what one recalls when presented by certain stimuli... the human mind is a mysterious thing!

Closer to living in the "real" world!!!

I just landed my first interview, and I am sooooo excited! Things just have a way of falling into place sometimes, and I sincerely hope this is one of those times! I am interviewing for westridge academy which seems like a great place to start out my practice in residential treatment!!! Crossing my fingers between then and now that I a pass my license exam on friday, and then land the job on monday!!!

The one who peeks furtively

Skulking behind corners in the shadow of technology
Interloping duplicitously through your cyber glory hole
An emotional voyeur looking for a fix
Trespassing stealthily at another’s expense
Curiosity killing, and the hidden is uncovered
Naked to perception, not furtive, but exposed

SCHOOL = DONE!!!

I walked out of my last final today, and I don't know if the magnitude of that feat has really hit me yet? Sometimes it takes me a while to adjust to change, and this is going to be no exception. I am both excited, and anxious that I am no longer a student, because that means that I have to join the real world as a professional, and that is going to be a definate adjustment! I am not exactly out of the woods yet however, because I have to pass my licensure exam before they will let me actually get a job... so in a week and a half it is sink or swim time!!!

Imogen heap = AMAZING performance

The show was sooooo much better than I could have anticipated! I was fully amazed at her talent, and was in awe at her ability as an artist. This concert is absolutely at the top of my OUTSTANDING list of shows that I have gone to, and I am glad that I decided to go (despite the seemingly terrible timing with school!)

All is fair in love and war... or is it?

rapine \RAP-in\, noun:
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force...
In which raises the question: what denotes property? and by what force can it be carried away???