Thank you PBS, for watching my daughter while I study maniacally in the next room.

Thank you state-mandated daycare/elementary school for watching my kids for one more week so I can study maniacally.

Thank you husband, for working four hours of overtime today and on Saturday and on Memorial Day so we might be able to pay the mortgage.

Thank you professor of Anatomy, for writing such impossibly difficult tests that I will just really have to memorize EVERYTHING about hormones and blood today.

Thank you, Local Community College, for being such an unreliable and poorly paying employer that I have been inspired again to become a nurse.

Thank you, floor nursing, for sucking so hard, that I will go on to become an NP or midwife right away and multiply my last year's wages by 10.

Thank you, endocrine system, for including so much organic chemistry that my ego leftover from the easy A in Anatomy 1 is immediately knocked down to size.

Thank you, Bob, for inspiring me to pick up my blog again ... and put off my studying just a little more.

Right brain, thank you for making creativity so easy for me.

Left brain, please WAKE UP.