Not a disaster, just a mess
As it turns out, KPR itself misspoke and Lawrence was not declared a disaster area. I thought that sounded a bit extreme.
The storm was what's called a "microburst", a term which I personally think was made up by local newscasters in coherts with the people at the national weather service to sound technical and impressive and still somehow like an explosion of tiny fruits. It means that the whole town was struck by tornadic winds without there being definite, fully-formed funnels. Isn't it more fun just to say tornado?
In unrelated news, I completed my nursing aide class on Friday! I'm now qualified to work as a 'trainee' until my real certification arrives in approximately three to six weeks. So this morning I re-applied at the hospital and the nice HR lady told me that if I hadn't heard from them in a week I should call them to check on it. I would have done that anyway but it was very encouraging to be, uh, encouraged to do so. I also found out that there's a shift open for 12-hour days on the third floor, by far my first preference. There's also a shift open to work nights in the ER but I don't know if I'm up for that just yet. This hunch is based on the following facts: a) I have no experience yet, b) I have a hard time staying up past midnight, and c) I am very squeamish and would be most likely laying on the floor if anything actually happened. So I'm aiming for the third floor - surgery and pediatrics.
Most hospitals require six months experience though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. And applying other places.
The storm was what's called a "microburst", a term which I personally think was made up by local newscasters in coherts with the people at the national weather service to sound technical and impressive and still somehow like an explosion of tiny fruits. It means that the whole town was struck by tornadic winds without there being definite, fully-formed funnels. Isn't it more fun just to say tornado?
In unrelated news, I completed my nursing aide class on Friday! I'm now qualified to work as a 'trainee' until my real certification arrives in approximately three to six weeks. So this morning I re-applied at the hospital and the nice HR lady told me that if I hadn't heard from them in a week I should call them to check on it. I would have done that anyway but it was very encouraging to be, uh, encouraged to do so. I also found out that there's a shift open for 12-hour days on the third floor, by far my first preference. There's also a shift open to work nights in the ER but I don't know if I'm up for that just yet. This hunch is based on the following facts: a) I have no experience yet, b) I have a hard time staying up past midnight, and c) I am very squeamish and would be most likely laying on the floor if anything actually happened. So I'm aiming for the third floor - surgery and pediatrics.
Most hospitals require six months experience though, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. And applying other places.
posted by sarah at 11:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hello Sarah, good to hear from you. Glad you didn't blow away in the storm. Sounds like you were right in the middle of it. I was thinking of Greek class the other day as I was crunching grammatical structures and wishing that I had paid as much attention in there as you did. Take care.
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