What is your favorite thing about being a nurse?
Honestly, I love codes. Like code blues, pumping on the chest. The best is the first minute of the code, you strap the person to the table strip him naked, everyone is confused no one knows what’s going on. It’s amazing.
What made you decide on moving to Austin?
I got a job here after graduating college, and it was the warmest place that a job was offered. I didn’t want to move to Vermont, or New Hampshire or Minnesota, I love the sun.
You mentioned that you like stability, and permanency. Would you like to make Austin a permeant home?
I definitely would. But you always have this strange thing as a women, you have to make allowances for a spouse. It is tough being a women you don’t know what social-economic status is going to be what town your going to live in what job he is going to have. you don’t even know what your last name is going to be. But I really love Austin, but for some reason I can’t pull the trigger on buying a house. It is a lot of commitment that I don’t know that I am ready for. I have never mowed a lawn, and I don’t know what to do when the AC goes out, and I don’t want to talk to the roofing guy about fixing my eves. Maybe that just the step I am waiting to take with someone else.
So would you say that you are in ideal job, and if not what would it be?
Being a nurse is my ideal job, but the reason it is my ideal job. Is because there are so many different areas of nursing that I can do. Sometimes I think I wouldn’t get to do everything that I want to do before I have kids. I still want to do niau and go back to the ER do a stint in the ICU and my next job is going to be in their operating room. That is what interests me now. You never know what things you are going to see or do. I have pulled the placenta out of a human uterus. I have done cadaver labs, I have seemed someone get embalmed. I have seen this lady that had…..OK thats enough!
How you would describe the perfect day?
It wouldn’t start till noon, I love to sleep in. maybe have lunch with some friends, spend some time outside. And then back to my friends. Nothing in particular, we just have fun doing just about anything.
How you would describe the perfect date?
I know it’s going to sound lame, It would be nice for a guy to do all of the stereotypical movie things. Because he never does. Like he doesn’t need to bring me a bunch of flowers, but maybe just one. And not open all the doors, but just my car door. Let me order first. Is that sad that my perfect date just includes the common curtseys. Movies are not good for dates, guys always do that, you can’t talk, and the whole time you are thinking…is he going to try to hold my had. And my perfect date would include him making the first move. I don’t really know how to make the transition between that was a very lovely meal and lets make out. I am rather clumsy at it. I guess it isn’t about what you do, but it’s who you do it with…and that sounds like it came out of a chick flick.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Where does every girl want to be in 5 years, married to the guy I love and big fat and pregnant. But big and fat because I’m pregnant, not because I love pasta and doughnuts. I can’t wait to be pregnant. I want this big belly that I can eat cereal off of. And wear a bikini and paint a big smiley face on it. Although after my sister and law was pregnant I am a little weary of all the people that want to touch you. I mean it isn’t ok for you to touch my stomach now why should you touch it when it’s big. My brother made a bunch of shirts for her that said don’t touch my belly.
The 08 election is betting at the door, what kinds of things are you looking for in a president?
Environmental policy it’s not sexy and it’s not popular but that is what I’m going for. You can mess up a lot of things in the short term, economy, and nasdaq, but when you start drilling for oil and clubbing baby seals that’s the kind of things that you can’t bounce back from. I am not so much into the green credits or reduce your carbon foot print. I am about nature preserves and wild life. And preservation. When you camp in tewupesp the north rim grand canyon you can stand a mile above the snake river and you never feel so small. I don’t want bulldozers chain saws and republicans to take that from my children. Certain things just aren’t worth it. I am really big on socially policies. Abortion is a galvanizing issue for me. I will always land on the side of choice, and so will my candidate. It is a hot button issue for a reason.
3 comments:
Typically I don’t comment on my own blog, but this time I just couldn’t let it slide. First of all I want to thank Jalaine for the excellent interview. But I couldn’t resist throwing in my two cents worth on a few points.
Environmental policy is “sexy” in fact it may be the most popular topic, it’s right up there next to Education. Even Bush is starting to get on the environmental ban wagon. If you want to talk about something that isn’t popular try getting rid of a government program such as the park service, the board of education, or Medicare. Remove those and you’ll have an angry mob coming after you (even Republicans). Increase those and you’ll get nothing but cheers from the masses. Here is the problem with most environmental policies; they are set up for the rich to feel good about themselves at the expense of the poor. For instance it is environmentally friendly to drive a hybrid car, so we want to encourage people to drive them. The government will give you $2000 if you buy a hybrid car. And then you will also save lots of money on gas over time. So it’s sounds like a great deal right. In fact it is, but look around and see who is driving the Prius next to you. Are they poor? Nope, poor people can’t spend $20,000 on a car even if it will pay off on the long run…they don’t have the money. They have similar programs for solar panels, if you pay between $10,000-$100,000 to put in solar panels you can get it all reimbursed over 10 years from the government. And then additionally you will save a grundle on your electric bill. Why isn’t everyone doing this? Because most people don’t have the $10,000-$100,000 grand it would cost to install the panels. So we all end up paying money to the people who do have all that cash sitting around.
But speaking of environmental policy I agree that we need to protect our National Parks. Growing up in Utah I had the opportunity of visiting many of the greatest parks in the world: Yellowstone, Zion, Arches, and Bryce National Parks. They are beautiful. But they have had a problem that the parks service has complained about for years. Too many people, and not enough money. There is a simple solution to this problem and if you ask anyone who has studied economics more than about 2 hours they will tell you the way to solve this dilemma is simply raise the price. Most of the money that funds the parks is subsidized by the government, but some of it comes from the visitors. When the National Park Service was created in 1916 the charge to get into the park was $10. The last time I went to Yellowstone it cost $20. Now, had the price followed inflation then today it would cost between $120-150 dollars to be admitted. If the park service was really interested in protecting these parks for our children they would raise the price. Now you may argue that if they raised the price then it would make the parks too expensive for the poor to visit. I don’t have any data on what the average salary of visitors to the park is. But I do know that when I have been to the parks, I haven’t seen many “poor” families (besides my own ;-). I did however see a lot of Prius’s. If you want to see poor families you should try going to Disney land where admittance was around $60 last time I checked. Using Tax dollars to fund the parks is really just funding vacations for the rich, and elderly.
However I was pleased to hear that Jalaine said she “would always land on the side of choice”. Unfortunately though as far as I can tell the abortion issue is the only issue where she sides for choice. Most issues such as implementing an environmental program take choices away from citizens, and puts the power in the hands of the government to decide what they think is best for the country instead of letting people decide for themselves. It is exactly the same as the abortion issue. If a mother should have the right to decide what to do with her child’s life, shouldn’t every citizen have the right to decide how to dispose of his garbage, or what type of car they should drive?
Finally my last comment on Jalaine’s interview actually comes from something I heard in conference today one of the speakers said “Faithful daughters of God desire children”. That is definitely the case with Jalaine.
holy crud gavin... i think you need to calm down... jus- just calm down...
Give it to her Gavin!! And then to Andrew!!
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