Categories: book-review, random, nursing
Tags: jobs, laptop, book review, nursing
Date: 29 March 2009 19:06:43
The power pack to my laptop isn't very happy - the last few days, despite being plugged in, it has seemed to decide whether or not to charge the battery based on minute positional changes which meant that I had to keep checking the bottom right hand corner to see if I needed to hit the power pack or not to stop the battery suddenly cutting out. Today, however much I waved it around it was just not going to work, so I've ordered another one and in the meantime I am on HD's big PC. Which is great, as I never have a screen this big so that's cool, but his funny pen-mouse-thingy (can't remember what it's called) is really hard work! I'm so used to a mouse or a touch pad on the laptop - getting used to this new gadget actually reminds me of the first time, way back when, that I started to use a mouse. The same frustration with the cursor seeming to jump all over the screen and not go where I want it to - I'm sure I'll get used to it, but I'm looking forward to getting my laptop back! His @ and " are round the other way from my laptop too, just to add to the general feeling of incompetence!
In other news, I'm meant to be finishing a book for my book group, which meets tomorrow evening. I started it a couple of weeks ago, but just 4 (very short) chapters in I already knew I didn't like it, didn't read it since and eventually thought I'd read at least some of it this afternoon so that I had something other than "I read the first few pages and hated it" to say. Unfortunately (;)) I appear to have left it at work, and I won't be able to read it tomorrow because I'm at work (obviously!). That's so sad (not). So, my half-baked book review based on about the first 10 pages - Carlos Ruiz Zafon "Shadow of the Wind" - don't bother. It was a runaway bestseller a couple of years ago, apparently, and had great reviews, but it read like Dan Brown to me - cliched, hammy, obvious characters, clunky writing - sorry, life's too short. So instead I picked up another book (which I'll review when I get the laptop back!) which was much better, I'm nearly half-way through already and enjoying it much more. That's more like it! I'll see what the book group have to say about "Shadow of the Wind", maybe if they all love it and rave about it I'll give it another try. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
I've also been planning some nursing-related studying. I'm aiming to get myself back on the register in the next couple of months, hopefully, so need to do 35 hours of related study. I can use some PhD-related stuff - it's a bit tenuous but close enough for my purposes that it will count. I've also identified a (free!) conference to go to, maybe (most of the good conferences that could count cost #200-300 (that's pounds by the way, can't figure out this keyboard) so that's not going to happen any time soon!), and had a brainwave about shadowing someone so that it's not all book-based. Will email around tomorrow to see if anyone's willing to take me on for just a few hours to do that. This is getting serious. I'm starting to look at what jobs are around too - not that I'm ready to start applying yet, but it's good to see what's out there. It's a bit scary!