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July 3, 2002

I finished Voyager last night. I am really enjoying these books. I am going to go through withdrawals when I get to the last one. I am now reading The Drums of Autumn, and then the last one written is The Fiery Cross which won't be out in paperback until October. Then, the next one will not be published until 2004. 2004! I could have kids by then! The books are really well written, the characters are so endearing, and the subject matter very interesting.

I have to work tonight, but get paid time and a half for the holiday. It's kind of lame...because we work a half an hour extra on the night before holidays, that is the official holiday for us. Everyone wants to work tonight, to get paid extra and they can still enjoy the holiday. No one ever wants to work the actual holiday, because they miss out on the holiday festivities and are not really getting anything to work. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a normal job. Closed on holidays, weekends, and nights. Wouldn't that be something. I don't think it hit me until half way through nursing school that I would probably have to work nights and weekends and holidays once I was working. It's kind of a bummer. At least up here, there isn't much for me to miss out on. I don't think I would make it if I had to work eight hour shifts instead of twelves. I can't imagine working five nights a week. Talk about not having a life. That would be hard to deal with. So, there are five of us scheduled tonight and unless the census has exploded and tons of surgeries and admissions have occurred, I don't know what they will do with all of us. I guess I will have to wait and see.

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