Operating room management

With bewildered eyes and a puzzled mind, I sat quietly in my chair. “Jenny, what is y-intercept?” the teacher asked. Although I knew the exact answer, I kept silent and bowed my head, my uncontrollable shyness barricading me to speak in public. Students all stared at me directly with the chaos of expressions, and my face blushed and burned instantly. I was most embarrassed since the whole class had witnessed my dilemma. That is who I was, evading every challenge because of diffidence. As the…

Three weeks on intense apartment hunting, we found one that allowed children, was an amazing price, was in a good neighborhood, and it was furnished; meaning that it came with furniture. As a result of this, we didn’t have to hire a moving company. All we had was Blair’s toys and her type of furniture, so we just put it in the back of Antonio’s truck. The apartment was around 45 minutes away from the motel we were staying in, so I felt pretty safe that we would not wind up in the same area that…

1. I dislocated my kneecap one day at my old school. It was lunchtime, and the crowded cafeteria was full of noisy teenagers. I was sitting at one of the small round tables at the far end of the room with my friend Cheyenne. Finished with my lunch, I got up to return my tray and felt an unnatural popping sensation in my right knee as I stood from my chair. As my weight shifted I felt my kneecap pop out of place, slide over, and lock into place on the side of my leg. Immediately I fell back into…

Elementary Politics Dressed in a neon shirt and pop art styled leggings, I sit down on the bleachers, slipping my homemade missing link mask over my face. While the rest of the student council finishes touching up their various alien costumes with copious amounts of foil, the student body files into the gym for another all school homeroom. My right leg bounces, giddy with anticipation. I am about to announce this Spirit Week’s extraterrestrial adventure movie theme, which we coined “Out of…

I plopped myself on the schoolyard, rethinking what just erupted in Miss. Caroline's class. All those kids lookin' at me, Miss. Caroline's eyes out of her head, and Scout blabbin' my history away. Out of the corner of my eye I see Scout walkin' over with a slight smirk on her face, like she'd just won three bucks. Next thing I know my face is grounded in the dirt, and I really don't do nothin' to stop her. Only thing that comes to my mind is, Why me? Out of all the Cunningham's, I gotta sit here…

up homework due at midnight. I didn’t feel like going out that evening, because the frigid air made the thought journeying downtown to party, very unappealing. However my roommate did not share the same sentiments. She was bored and restless in the room. She kept pestering me, “what we should do tonight?” “Don’t you want to go out?” I would have told her no but I knew that the rest of my night would be filled with her complaining about how we should have gone out to party. Still trying to…

It was a foggy-creepy-quiet Tuesday morning when I went into the chiropractor's office. I was there because of my back I would feel a pain in my back whenever i went to bend over so my mom took me to the chiropractor to get it checked out.When i finally got into see the chiropractor I was a little nervous since I hadn’t been to a chiropractor in two years and it was a new chiropractor I was going to at first he would adjust my back then send me on my way but when the pain kept coming back he…

It is 8am on a Tuesday, and I was getting ready for school. I threw on a bright pink short sleeve shirt, jeans, some rose gold hoop earrings, and a hot pink jacket that had the printed words ”Love Justice” with a heart between the two words. I pulled my hair back in two pigtails then went downstairs to grab my bag and head out. When I arrived at school I went up to my friends Sarah, Diana, and Alana. Sarah was a tall peppy girl, who had black hair, which was always put up in two buns, and…

I walked briskly on a summer morning on the sidewalk to my college campus, Yale! I had been accepted in the middle of my Canby high school days because of my excellent grades, leadership skills, and my confidence in speeches. One other person had been accepted in my grade at that time named Tanya, but rumor has it that her father works in the staff and influenced the principal's decision with some ‘green paper’. Ever since 5th grade, she has taken my ideas into her projects, wowing the teachers…

only via an hourly bus? How accessible are all those wonderful facilities? Do the pools stay open late enough for that moonlight swim you've been fantasizing about? How frequent is the evening entertainment, and where is it located in respect to your room? (You probably don't want the disco too close) When you're tallying the costs, be sure to ask whether all taxes and service charges are included in the price quotes. And get the facts and figures in writing -- and the cancellation policy. Note…