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fanbot for making it - it was all my idea. Caza didn't find it funny at all. Stoney said it was frickin' hilarious but, in what may be the money quote of the century: "I don't know that I'm the best authority on what's inappropriate." Shareable if you're inclined.
Yay! Early day because today was curriculum meeting = equals Sue is bored but gets free food and gets to leave work a few hours early. As I stared around the room, listening to different department heads blather, these thoughts occurred to me. A bored mind is a dangerous thing.
How Nursing School is like the Buffy Fandom (Well, there's a heading you don't see every day.)
So I spent the Nursing Science Program curriculum meeting thinking about how my job is just like my fandom. Even though everyone is working toward the same thing (either graduating successful nurses or preaching the great gospel Joss) petty disagreements over section superiority ('shipper wars) often take precedent over the good of the program (fandom) as a whole. And then I realized that each section of our program was a lot like the 'ships most prevalent on my flist.
Nursing I: Fundamentals is like: Buffy/Spike. It's the basic building block, everyone has to acknowledge it, because it's canon. More layered than Buffy & Angel (which would be like a pre-req, I guess, Anatomy and Physiology, maybe) it sets the precedent for future 'ships and a lot of its basics (cliches) filter down to other 'ships.
Nursing II: Beginning Med-Surg is like: Spike/Xander. Arguably the most popular class - because it reitterates a lot of the themes learned from Nursing I: (Buffy and Spike) and is comfortably familiar. The White Hat loves the Vampire theme continues. It still contains familiar elements (Spike) but builds on those with new themes (slash) but stays true to material learned earlier (all Spike really needs is someone to love.) And it involves lots of role playing and word games (hello, snarkiness!) and can be a lot of fun.
Nursing III: Psych and Creation of Life is like: Wesley/Giles. A sudden influx of all new material. A concentration on psychology and darker subjects such as violent tendencies and the workings of the mind. It also deals with birth, and God knows Giles and Wesley are the two characters who reinvented themselves, Giles going from Ripper to Watcher and Wes going from Watcher to...Scruffy Wes. It's also the most involved semester, requiring hours of study and independent thinking and not always being everyone's cup of tea. (Heh. Tea.)
Nursing IV: The Lifespan and Death and Dying is like: Spike/Angel. And here we are back at canon, but not a canon we get to see much of, because how do you really teach Death? It's more spoken than seen, and more intangible than not. Lies mostly in the imagination of the student (writer.) It's also the course ('ship) were you delve into the metaphysical, and how different cultures (writers) have different visions of the afterlife. Plus? Death and Dying? C'mon...vampires...
So, yeah. My job is boring. And I'm really supposed to be working on SMCD now. Please forgive me for this glimpse into the mind of Sue: At Work.
fanbot for making it - it was all my idea. Caza didn't find it funny at all. Stoney said it was frickin' hilarious but, in what may be the money quote of the century: "I don't know that I'm the best authority on what's inappropriate." Shareable if you're inclined.Yay! Early day because today was curriculum meeting = equals Sue is bored but gets free food and gets to leave work a few hours early. As I stared around the room, listening to different department heads blather, these thoughts occurred to me. A bored mind is a dangerous thing.
How Nursing School is like the Buffy Fandom (Well, there's a heading you don't see every day.)
So I spent the Nursing Science Program curriculum meeting thinking about how my job is just like my fandom. Even though everyone is working toward the same thing (either graduating successful nurses or preaching the great gospel Joss) petty disagreements over section superiority ('shipper wars) often take precedent over the good of the program (fandom) as a whole. And then I realized that each section of our program was a lot like the 'ships most prevalent on my flist.
Nursing I: Fundamentals is like: Buffy/Spike. It's the basic building block, everyone has to acknowledge it, because it's canon. More layered than Buffy & Angel (which would be like a pre-req, I guess, Anatomy and Physiology, maybe) it sets the precedent for future 'ships and a lot of its basics (cliches) filter down to other 'ships.
Nursing II: Beginning Med-Surg is like: Spike/Xander. Arguably the most popular class - because it reitterates a lot of the themes learned from Nursing I: (Buffy and Spike) and is comfortably familiar. The White Hat loves the Vampire theme continues. It still contains familiar elements (Spike) but builds on those with new themes (slash) but stays true to material learned earlier (all Spike really needs is someone to love.) And it involves lots of role playing and word games (hello, snarkiness!) and can be a lot of fun.
Nursing III: Psych and Creation of Life is like: Wesley/Giles. A sudden influx of all new material. A concentration on psychology and darker subjects such as violent tendencies and the workings of the mind. It also deals with birth, and God knows Giles and Wesley are the two characters who reinvented themselves, Giles going from Ripper to Watcher and Wes going from Watcher to...Scruffy Wes. It's also the most involved semester, requiring hours of study and independent thinking and not always being everyone's cup of tea. (Heh. Tea.)
Nursing IV: The Lifespan and Death and Dying is like: Spike/Angel. And here we are back at canon, but not a canon we get to see much of, because how do you really teach Death? It's more spoken than seen, and more intangible than not. Lies mostly in the imagination of the student (writer.) It's also the course ('ship) were you delve into the metaphysical, and how different cultures (writers) have different visions of the afterlife. Plus? Death and Dying? C'mon...vampires...
So, yeah. My job is boring. And I'm really supposed to be working on SMCD now. Please forgive me for this glimpse into the mind of Sue: At Work.
