Here are my personal musings on living. Let's have conversations about what it means to be beautiful beings on this planet. Maybe I'll talk about pop culture. Maybe I'll go on a rant about silly things. Mostly I talk about my experiences and subsequent thoughts about them. Either way, this is where I write and hopefully have something to say that is worth reading.
I passed my board exam.
PHEW!
I am beyond thrilled to be able to cross that one off the list.
Those many heavy books are going on the shelf! ...to be easily retrieved when I need to consult them. Alas, learning never stops.
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It is a touch anti-climatic.
Months worth of studying priming my mind just to be able to fill in 200 bubbles with pencil. (#2 only!)
Strange.
I think I may be detoxing from the stress. Stiff neck, exhaustion, overall feeling of queasiness. It is slowing sinking in, however, that I may actually be able to move forward. That I can close those books.
That possibility is exciting.
Instead of letting the pressure come crashing in with endless "Now whats?" and "Hows?" I'm going to try to release into a little bit of weightlessness. If only for a little while.
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Update time: When I completed my master's degree I completed the first step in becoming a Certified Nutrition Specialist with the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists (CBNS), which is a national organization that allows its members to be licensed nutritionists in all of the states that recognize it. If I want to act as a licensed nutritionist, which allows me to actually make nutritional diagnosis and allows my clients to seek insurance reimbursement if their insurance plan covers nutrition counseling, then being licensed is a good idea. Not to mention that it makes my knowledge more creditable. The next step in the certification process is passing the board exam. I originally thought that I would not be able to sit for the upcoming November exam since I would not have been able to get my application in before the September deadline. The CBNS apparently got a number of requests for application deadline extensions. They decided to extend the deadline, and now I can apply to take the exam in November.
So that is my new plan for the next month or so. Stay put and study my butt off to try and pass the Exam in November before high tailing it out of here. It's not a super fun plan, but it has the upside of feeling like the smart thing to do. Also, autumn is my favorite season in Maryland, so I suppose hanging out and watching the leaves change and the air grow crisp isn't a terrible fate.
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