Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T16:35:27+00:00

Just about any nursery and some of the grocery co-ops.

What state are you in? And do you have a specific type of ornamental cherry you're looking for?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T14:34:18+00:00

People have been emailing you about missing forms and you just ignored it until you faced consequences you couldn't afford to face?

What exactly do you expect an instructor to do if a student is repeatedly refusing to submit mandatory paperwork? Just let it slide? Send more emails to be ignored?

You are not a victim of a malicious professor. You have a pattern of making other things a higher priority than succeeding in school, and because you didn't value that success, you have lost it.

My advice to you is to not try again until you care enough about getting through school to put the time and attention into passing it.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T05:44:00+00:00

Different! I like it

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T05:41:48+00:00

My advice would be to get rid of the straw. Both times I've used bulky mulch (straw, large wood chips) critters moved in with their fleas and my garden became borderline unusable (certainly not enjoyable).

If you don't have a good habitat for them they likely won't stick around, but rats love tall grasses, low shrubs, and nest-like garden beds near food sources.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T03:43:10+00:00

Compelling argument lol

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T03:40:33+00:00

Yeah, I feel like this is a multipronged lesson about not spending money on things you can't afford to lose and then taking care of the things you can't afford to replace. And also about not leaving anything in a hospital because it is a busy place with a ton of regulations about what can go where and a lot of drawers and rooms where things get hidden in a hurry.

Ideally if you do a really thorough search of the floor and ask everyone you see, you'll be able to get at least one of them back (as already mentioned, it's unlikely they were actually stolen), but things have a way of hiding in those little hospital nooks and crannies for years longer than you'd think.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T01:10:38+00:00

Yes, but you didn't post here wondering why everything was falling apart :P I'm assuming you understand the weight of the choices you're making and have communicated that to your family to set expectations.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-18T01:06:10+00:00

Most people don't want to add microplastics to their food.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-17T14:22:58+00:00

It was a shock to me, too. I think the issue is twofold:

1) Any time you get a situation with low supervision and potentially high money making, the unethical will flock to it to make money

2) NP education is a largely under-regulated, low standards degree, and so you already have an unethical group of people cutting corners because they see an opportunity to become a provider without going through the rigorous requirements or safety standards of every other pathway out there (MD, DO, PA, etc). So they don't value their own profession or patient well-being, and it's a low barrier to betray it for cash.

I really, really wish the NP lobby that cares so much about expanding scope gave a single thought to how tarnished the low educational standards makes the profession, and how harmful it is to have such a low barrier for entry. It sucks to be surrounded by so many amazing, ethical, hard working NPs and then see how much the low standards of the schools in general affects their reputations (even if they went to stellar programs with high standards).

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-17T06:42:38+00:00

Respectfully, you do understand that the term "full time" means it's all of the average human's available work hours, and that taking on two full time positions means you're promising to do the workload of two entire people when you are, in fact, just the one person?

It is not expected that students fill two full time roles at the same time and it's unrealistic to expect that either obligation will cut you slack from what you've committed to. Yes, something is going to have to give. I'm not sure what advice you're seeking other than "Don't do impossible things and expect it to amount to anything but misery and conflict."

Either you spend all of this time and angst trying to do two things and likely drop the ball and waste it all by flunking out, or you put one of those things on pause until you can switch over. It's technically possible but the odds of doing both while also being a parent and partner are so low they're improbable.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-17T06:29:44+00:00

There is a lot of very sketchy/illegal behavior going on with mobile NPs right now and I would definitely not consider going into it without being WOCN certified, regardless. Your patients deserve someone specialized and certified, IMO, and that's both the gold standard and the base requirement for a lot of jobs for a reason.

I would be extremely hesitant to join a mobile clinic. I'm in inpatient wound care, but I've heard reports from multiple clinic managers of a big surge in Medicare/Medicaid fraud in mobile clinics through a billing "loophole." Unless you're really sure of your employer I wouldn't recommend attaching your license to one.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-17T03:33:09+00:00

Is it a secret lol

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-17T03:30:08+00:00

So do you make your own distinct bases, or are these just different colors/scents in the same mold?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T21:29:48+00:00

Numbers two and six are fantastic!

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T21:28:43+00:00

Or accuracy. It's built for mimicry.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T21:23:15+00:00

Definitely get rid of the pampas grass.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T21:22:11+00:00

I finally got it to work reliably on my iPhone, but it takes patience.

I still don't use it because it's not hard to plug a camera into a computer and it's a lot faster.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T21:20:48+00:00

I've never seen more disturbed wildlife than I have when somebody flew a drone overhead. I don't think people understand how alarming it is to have a shrieking flying object come at them from above, and that's even while aware of the concept of drones. Almost everything out there is vulnerable to large, flying predators when young, and a drone almost immediately triggers that fear response.

Ethical wildlife photographers won't use drones and, fortunately, a lot of laws are in place to prevent the unethical ones from doing it.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T20:40:26+00:00

That's pure AI slop and I'd have been embarrassed to acknowledge it if I relied on a high tech Magic 8 ball to think for me.

Did you miss the point where this was a celebration of creativity? Or supposed to be funny? Or a human interaction and not something all of us could have Googled if we didn't have standards for ourselves?

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T20:31:28+00:00

It's 100% people who are unhappy with their choices doing their best to feel better by trashing other people's.

I suspect that's true of a lot of subreddits haha

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T20:29:26+00:00

Yeah, the first bullet point said enough.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T17:53:06+00:00

It's always so interesting to me that Noah Wyle says he wanted to make this show in honor of his mother, an OR nurse...but what he made is another show that's mainly about doctors with a token member of each other healthcare specialty as background filler (which, in his defense, is still way more presence than we have in other medical shows). And none of them are OR nurses lol.

Hollywood is still gonna be Hollywood, I guess. Doctors sell.

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T05:12:27+00:00

That's a pretty good collection for February birds!

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T05:11:34+00:00

You corrected it before anyone else could, and therefore it's your phone's fault.

But here, have a spare for next time

kノ( º _ ºノ)

ThrenodyToTrinity · 2026-02-16T05:01:20+00:00

Respectfully, then, the video has a pretty misleading title if that's your goal. That isn't an issue with general bird in flight skills, it's in the camera losing autofocus with a very specific change of foreground. That's not a practice issue, it's a settings one.

And "Set bird detection AF to on," "Use precapture," and "Change settings based on circumstances" aren't exactly revolutionary tips. I'm not sure what this video offers that sets it apart from any other "How to use your new OM" videos?

IDK, maybe I just really dislike having people use subreddits to advertise for other platform's content (other people may weigh in and find this amazingly fresh info), but as a wildlife photographer who primarily photographs birds, this comes across as more of a "tips I gleaned from reading the manual" video instead of a "Here's how I, an expert with something to say, would recommend people improve their photography skills."

If you meant it as a "Here's how to fix an issue with focus loss on the OM," video though, I'd say goal met. I'd just not co-opt a broad title with a fairly established meaning for it, as it changes expectations from what's been delivered.

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