A Bad Influence And Lotta Snots

I have a new student nurse who I'll be preceptoring for about a month. She's a young, beautiful, blonde Russian girl. I love having slaves students. At first they increase the workload, but once they catch on, I have almost nothing to do. I can read and write for hours and just answer the occasional question. It's great to have a break from the drudgery for a month. Sorry, I have a lazy streak.

I also take pleasure in teaching students the correct way to do things and the way we actually do them. There is a difference. I show them short-cuts, organizing tips, coping/defense mechanisms and ways to break the rules without getting caught. I'm a bad influence, but we have a lot of fun.

My students also, so far, have had lives completely different from mine. I love hearing their stories. My last two students were in show business and had great tales. It's too bad I didn't have a blog then to share them. My memory now is too hazy.

My current student is pretty enough to be on the cover of a magazine, but like many Russians, she doesn't smile much. I'm going to break her of that even if I have to tickle her. We have to at least pretend that we're having fun. I just love it when the students arrive.

Being around someone so young and pretty is a little hard, though. It's a constant reminder that I'm not. Don't be fooled by my pictures. I'm photogenic.

We had a male patient who needed to be catheterized. Knowing that my student was leaving earlier than me, he said that I could do it after she left. He didn't want a young pretty girl watching, but he didn't mind me.

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One of my coworkers went to a computer training class and mentioned that the program she was trained on was lotta snots. Her accent is heavy, so I asked her to repeat it several times. Each time she said lotta snots. Not believing that my employer would use a program called lotta snots, I asked her to get on the computer and show me. It was Lotus Notes.