Alright, alright...

I have started looking into some decent turntables on amazon (thanks for the idea Cam) and I just put my order in for a badass gaming computer...

Now that that's out of the way, tonight will be a night to remember. It's the first night I've been able to hang out with some of the old roommates of the 904 (my college home junior and senior year) and it's already shaping up to be a heck of a time. That said, I'm going to check out downtown St. Cloud for the first time as an adult and I'm ready to see what this place has to offer. Anyways, I would like to offer this for everybody...

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I discovered Andrew Jackson Jihad the other night when I was unable to sleep because I have such a terrible sleep schedule these days because of my 12 hour night schedule. Anyways, the best way I can describe this band is imagine Neutral Milk Hotel, but with a hint of Punk and way more cursing.

Well hell... It looks like it'll be a hell of a night regardless. I'm in the tough position where I'm still barely feeling any older than a teenager, but I'm having to sign up for life insurance and retirement benefits. It's just sort of weird I guess.

Effing F Yeah.

The last time an advertising campaign struck such a chord with me was the Bruce Campbell Old Spice commercials in 2007 and it worked so well that I even made a post about it in this blog's infancy.

Well... I guess I've gotta go out and buy some tubes now.

Also, for anybody out there who still reads this, does anybody have any ideas on sweet shit I can blow money on. I already have an IRA set up and a 401(k) set up and I'm currently on path to buying a 2008 car in the near future as well as a computer that will set me back around $ 1300, but other than that I have nothing to spend my money on.

Thoughts?

What?

There are few things I enjoy more than free music and crazy ass music videos, but when they come together it's pure awesome.

Case in point, this.

Porch Drinking

Sorry guys, I've been a little bit busy and a little bit lazy lately and that pretty much just means that this blog gets put to the back burner. I'll do a quick recap.

I took my NCLEX exam and I'm officially a registered nurse and I spent all last week in orientation learning different aspects of paperwork and how to use the computer programs as well as all sorts of policies for different procedures. Tonight I have my first real day of work on the unit (I'm on the resource team which means I float to any one of 10 units based on who calls in sick or has time off) and I'll be spending this first week on the Oncology unit and I'm really excited. What I'm not excited for is that within this first month I'll have to switch between 12 hour night shifts, 12 hour day shifts, 8 hour evening shifts, 8 hour night shifts, 8 hour day shifts... yeah. It'll get better after this month because I'll be on a straight night rotation so I'll be able to get used to that again.

That said, I now have tin foil on my windows, not because I don't want the government to hear my thoughts, but because it's the best way I've found to totally block out light and allow for sleep in the middle of the day. If anybody has any other less white trash solutions to that, I would be all ears.

I've lately been listening the hell out of Bon Iver's new album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver and it's absolutely wonderful. I'm a total sucker for all of his work and I bought this hook line and sinker. He took some chances and I would have to say they paid off. I can't quite put it up on the pedistle and say it's as good as For Emma, Forever Ago, but damn... It's close.

I also finally got around to watching the film Brick after a suggestion from Tom and holy zombie jesus, that movie is awesome. It's been on my Netflix watch instantly queue for months, but I finally watched it and it's amazing. I won't give anything really away, but it's a neo-noir (think hard-boiled detective) that's set in a modern high school and it just works. I don't know how, but it works on every level and I can't wait to get some more free time to watch it again just to pick up on everything I missed.

I think that's the gist of what's up in my life now. Big changes, but not really. I got a job at the place I've been doing clinicals for the past two and a half years and I moved maybe a mile and a half from my old place to my new place (one corner of campus to the other side). I guess the biggest change is that I now have a beeper that was given to me from my work. Yeah, a beeper. I'm not even kidding when I say I'm more excited about this than I thought I had any right to be, but yeah, I now have a work beeper. Hello 1993.

Well Folks...

I'm an RN.

I'll leave everybody with this. For the record, this is Brent Hinds, singer and guitarist for Mastodon.

Thank God for System Restore.

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=052911

This is why I love webcomics. Married to the Sea is awesome.

Alright, break time is over. Time to study again.

Crooked Head

Alright, I needed a break from studying. I'm trying to prepare for my nursing boards (NCLEX) that I'm taking on June 1st and it's a bitch to study for. I know that other professions have more difficult tests that they have to show competency, but trying to review 4 years of nursing classes and disease states and interventions and meds, and treatments and god knows what else really gets boring after studying for 6-8 hours a day everyday of the week. I can't really complain because this is helping me brush up on my skills and that's a great thing because I should be starting my job June 6th.

Anyways, in fun news, I'll be seeing Red Fang on Wednesday. Red Fang is a straight up rock and roll band with a little bit of a sludge/stoner-metal influence going for them which is pretty damn awesome as far as I'm concerned.

Check out their video from their newest album, Murder the Mountains. Even if you're not a fan of hard rock, I suggest you check it out because it's a glorious video concept and it's a pretty damn good song regardless.

Red Fang - "Wires"