.blessings.

i don't often get to blog about how awesome things go down, so i definitely wanted to record this as a very good day, and that things are meant to happen one way or another. for some time now, my classmates and i have been attempting to lock down our internship sites for next year. we list down our top 10 places for IIA, then top ten places for IIB. if no one puts the same place as you for your number one choice, then you automatically get that place. if more than one person puts the same place, the computer "randomly" chooses. i got my IIA site at a mental health hospital in california automatically because no one else chose it. but then i had a 50/50 chance of getting my site at the cancer center in tampa b/c someone else had chosen it as their number spot as well. she ended up getting it, and i went to my number two listed site which was a hospital in st. petersburg. so i thought, well, maybe it's a blessing in disguise, maybe i was meant to go to this hospital instead. but the cancer center was still on my mind, and so i went in to the clinical education office and forfeited my site in cali so i could go to the cancer center. so if you're still with me, this means that i had cancer center in tampa for IIA and hospital in st. petersburg for IIB. well a week ago, i got an email and a note saying that the hospital in st. petersburg had canceled my site, and would i like to choose my number THREE site or did i need to set up an appointment? we set it up for today and that was that.

timing is everything. i had scheduled a locksmith to make a key for my landlord's car and we had agreed he would stop by any time b/t 10-11 today. well as 1130 rolled around, i started to get a little nervous thinking that maybe i screwed up all my appointment times. i left a message over at the clin ed office and she called me back at 1150 telling me we were scheduled to meet at 12. oops. all good, we pushed it to 115 so she could get lunch. the locksmith finally showed up at 12. yeah. i dunno but that was done and when i got to the clin ed office, it was like, okay, let's get this show on the road. i had narrowed down my options to another hospital in st. petersburg and a peds place in bradenton. i asked her more about the hospital, but was dismayed to learn that it was offering outpatient and hands, both of which i had NO desire to shadow in. upon asking about the peds place, she had told me it was taken...by the girl who had gotten the cancer center spot for IIB! it seems they had canceled her but taken me! so it was a true blessing in disguise! if things had happened the way i wanted them to, i would've been canceled out of that spot! so my fieldwork coordinator started searching for more peds sites or places that would offer peds in combo with other populations. then she stopped and said, oh, how bout this pediatrics place in lakeland which is in south orlando? i didn't remember seeing it on our list, and she went searching for the paperwork after realizing it wasn't filed in our master list. after some detective work, she found the paperwork. it hadn't been filed b/c it had just came in. i was blown away. talk about timing! she said that it's a good thing i came in when i did, otherwise, we might not have considered this place!

the rest of the day was just a wowers. i had inadvertantly traded in my ethernet cable for my wireless router instead of just securing a new one from comcast. i went in and explained my situation and they were able to find it and return it back to me, and then i was able to finally fix my wireless router to my computer.

i just felt like, wow, so many great things have fallen in place today and i just felt really happy, which i haven't felt in a really long time, and i feel blessed i get to share that with you.

please pray i get confirmed for that lakeland site, or you'll soon be seeing a blog about how i went about trying to find yet another site to take me!