I PASSED NCLEX-RN!!!! / Mom still in hospital

Well, I found out via phone call to the "early results" phone line that I passed the NCLEX-RN exam! I am (almost) a Real Nurse now (I just have to apply for, and pay for, the license from the state). So: what a relief! That's one load off my mind!

Sadly, in other news, my mom is still in the hospital. Every time they get her up to walk around, her blood O2 desaturates (she loses oxygen from her blood). That's why she gets so tired. So clearly there is still something going on with the lungs, although they are saying the chest x-ray showed no changes from the last one. But the last one showed post-radiation fibrotic changes (hardening in spots) and pleural effusion (collecting of fluid). Sometimes I think the cure is worse than the disease. Well, no, I guess that's not true; anyway, it's hard to say, because there's no knowing how bad or good she'd be doing now if she'd never had surgery, chemo, radiation, and more chemo. Maybe in the limitless (according to quantum physics) alternate universes in which she took all different steps to deal with the cancer. But then, if I could access those, I'd access the alternate universe wherein she never got lung cancer in the first place. Sigh.

a "swashbuckling" V for Vendetta: pimping it!

I pimped V for Vendetta to someone today after they questioned me about it in relation to a comment I made on whether or not to view a different flick (CKR's U&A). After I re-read it, in a very pat-myself-on-the-back kind of way, I thought it was a pretty good description of V without giving essential plot points away. So, like, yay me.

Except for a part I must include here--

". . .I've got to say that a Shakespeare-spouting masked and caped protector/avenger (played by Hugo Weaving), who knows his way around British literary history and pop culture and who wields a spatula as well as a knife or sword is a kind of surprisingly hot anti-hero."

--my favorite parts of my own V pimp are ( after the cut. )

Just now when I was wondering what Jonathan Rosenbaum's review of V for Vendetta said (and couldn't find it because he didn't review it), I found the capsule review of V from the Chicago Reader which I remembered liking because I felt it was succinct and accurate:

A popcorn movie that preaches mass rebellion against the government--what's not to like? ... The swashbuckling first hour is superior to the second, which bursts at the seams with backstory, but a rousing climax makes this the most potent piece of agitpop in years."

Especially the "swashbuckling" part. Yay, swashbuckling! It's become so popular in recent years! But I was into it as a little girl, too, when watching Errol Flynn in Robin Hood with my grandmother. Swashbuckling never goes out of style!

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