One Down, Six to Go

Finished the first term of the RN program today. The 100-question theory final was this morning; scored 93% on it, giving me an estimated A- (93%) on the course overall. Got a great review on my clinical evaluations from my clinical instructor. If I had it with me, I'd post an excerpt, but it's elsewhere at the moment. (Actually, I'm typing this entry from the college, due to a severe lack of students to tutor at the moment).

So now I have a little less than two weeks of no-school. Going to try and finish getting signed off on my Firefighter proficiencies that I neglected when the term started, and will be going to Game Storm in Portland this coming weekend. Outside of that, I'm hoping for a whole lotta nuttin' between now and Nursing 102.

The LPN part of the program is only four terms long, so I keep reminding myself I'm 1/4 of the way there. Then the RN is three more on top of that. Hence, one term down, six more to go. I'll be sitting for the RN NCLEX boards almost exactly two years from now.

Geh, that sounds like a long time. Let's shoot for the LPN in a year, and see how that goes. It's much more palatable in small bites...

Three More Fright Night Books?

Got an email this week from Mark Ricketts at Hogshead Publishing in the U.K. They're lining up new book projects for their Fright Night and Crime Scene lines. I've done two of the Fright Night books (What Went Down and Ghost Ship) and just put in my bid on three more.

The titles will tentatively be an oil rig horror adventure (as a sort of follow up to the previous two "bad things happen at sea" adventures), and a pair of WWII horror adventures, which should be a piece of cake considering the GURPS WWII stuff I cranked out in the last few years. The "spiders" book I mentioned last post is still on the schedule, but Mur Lafferty, another Hogshead writer, has expressed interest in it, which works out great.

Looking forward to getting some writing done again soon. First book will tentatively be due July 2005; the subsequent two would fall around Nov 05 and Jan 06. I'll post details when I know I have the contracts, but I suspect it's pretty certain at this point. So it looks like I'll be doing a lot of writing over the summer.

Who needs a vacation anyway...