UVA/UNC weekend

I witnessed one of the best games in UVA history last weekend. The Hoos were down the entire game but ran the ball down the field to score and tie the game in the last seconds. We held UNC to a fieldgoal in overtime and then we scored a touchdown to win! No one expected such a fantastic finish. Of course, after a win like that, severe celebration is in order and we definitely lived up to the expectation. Here are the pictures I'm allowed to post....

Rushing the field

Barbie brought some black gummy worms...this was the result

And the cameras come out....
Me and Wags


Me and Travis

Me, Brian and Lindsey

Back in the Saddle

After a summer of outpatient clinic work and fall clinicals on the psychiatric unit, I am thrilled to be going back to an acute care setting, the coronary care unit. I went up to the ICU yesterday to meet my preceptor and was overwhelmed by my excitement to get back to the bedside. There are machines to learn, complicated diagnoses with comorbidities, and a wealth of medications to master once again. The acute settings are just much more my style right now. I hated sitting around talking to psych patients about how they were feeling (emotionally) without really being able to do anything about it because I was not on their primary medical team and there were no psychiatrists to be found. I really missed the acute nursing care that is required in places like the CCU. I've heard wonderful things about the unit on which I will spend the next seven weeks and am so ready to get back to working with heart patients!

O.A.R. twice in one summer! How lucky am I? Last night a group of us went downtown to see the show. We forgot how much concert-going makes people want to make out and hang all over each other. We also forgot that college boys are stinky (literally). We began weaving our way through the PDA and grody boys to get to the front of the crowd. In the end, smelly boys prevailed, pumping their sweaty pit stained arms all over the place and passing gas to kill a cow. But the music was amazing and we had a blast!

Um, I'm peeing my pants. Watch this if you missed it.

Last weekend I celebrated with Greg and Amanda as they tied the knot in St. Michael's Maryland. Amanda and I went to William & Mary together, lead Young Life, and lived in the infamous 902 house. She moved to New York and I to Colorado. We stayed in touch and visited one another a few times. Then about a year and a half ago we both called each other and said simultaneously, "I'm going to nursing school!" Now she is studying at NYU and I love that we are sharing this experience together. The entire wedding weekend was a blast and I think some of us are already planning a Collison wedding party reunion sometime soon.

I almost forgot to post pictures from my trip to Denver last month! I spent a fantastic week in the glorious capital city with great friends. Mandy and I went to the New Belgium brewery in Fort Collins and got all of the beer below for free. Four free glasses every time you go in to the bar. You don't even have to go on the tour. It is almost worth moving to Fort Collins just for the daily happy hour.

Here is the day 2 crew at the mile high music festival. Two days. Tons of bands. Gorgeous weather. It was incredible.

The Black Crowes brought a handcrafted drum with them this year.

Brad has officially moved to Richmond. He stopped by my place in Charlottesville to pick up a load and later had this to say on why he needs a mini fridge: "My apartment is like a block long, Linz. I can't be getting up and walking to the refrigerator every time I want a beer." And then this on unpacking the boxes I gave him: "I found this round thing that has holes all over it and I can't figure out what it is. It has a blue disc on top and then holes everywhere." Me: "oh, it is a salad spinner. You put your lettuce in it to wash and then spin out all the water to dry it off." Brad: "Why can't you just wring out your lettuce by hand?"