well after six months plus i've finally figured out how to add a journal entry. (yaaah apathy) i don't know if it makes me a luddite or not but i'm so used to coffee and conversation over smokes at a diner/bar that the idea of posting an online journal seems somewhat antipersonal and a little bit egocentric. but hey, i do live in lancaster, so you know i must be desperate for some good conversation that doesn't involve young christian republicans or f&m "intellectuals"; and yes, they are marginally different, the f&m kids like emo at least . Still surviving the return to nursing school, but i really wonder about the american medical system and resource allocation. without getting into a huge capitalistic vs sociolistic debate on health care any thought on the direction health care should go in the future and how to get there? and while i'm on the subject of education, when did we as a society decide that college was compulsary to prove you can hold a real job?