This is my first week of med/surg clinicals, and I'll be spending tomorrow and Tuesday learning perioperative nursing. I'll get to provide some pre- and post-op care for surgical patients, but during the actual procedures my job is pretty much to stay out of the way. I feel like I'm sneaking in to a private party - like someone is going to discover me in the OR and tell me to get out.
On Thursday I have an appointment at a tattoo parlor. I got my first tattoo the ripe old age of nineteen, and for reasons that escape me now, I decided to get a Chinese symbol. It's supposed to mean 'happiness', but who knows what it really says (if anything at all.) I relied on a page out of a book at a tattoo shop to translate a difficult character-based language correctly? Anyhow, I've been wanting to redesign that tattoo for a few years, but I couldn't settle on what I wanted to put over it. I finally decided that the shape lent itself well to becoming a little oak tree. (My other tattoo is a sun - it's interesting that both of them will be images from the natural world. I think it's fitting.) I came up with some rough sketches, and I took them in to a tattoo artist last week. I like what she did with my idea, and I'm pretty excited. Sammy is coming with me, so I should have some pictures to post afterward.
Now that I think about it, I should have posted a photo and held a "redesign Mandi's tattoo" contest. I know there's some artistically inclined people reading my blog. Oh well. :)
5 comments:
I know how you feel. I got the same little nagging feeling the first time I walked into the teachers lounge when I did my student teaching.
From what I can tell on your blog, you are a very committed student, so I am sure you will shine when it comes to practical applications.
Chinese symbols were cool at the time. They still are, somewhat.
I've got a good friend who decided that his first tattoo should be the international symbol for 'biohazardous material'. He said it made it hard to get dates, so he evenutally had it changed into a pretty nice looking (but rather large) lion.
What made you decide to redesign it?
So ... last nights Lost was sort of a mind-blower, eh?
Before we were a couple I did some tattoo designs for Tinseltroos. There's some work in progress ones here and the finished version is here. Because we became an item just afterwards she ended up not getting the design done and instead had the one she deigned herself. Oh well.
Aww, thanks Dan! I appreciate the vote of confidence!
Jacin, I've been wanting to redo that tattoo for several years. It was faded and old, and it just wasn't me.
A. - Those designs are beautiful! I should have posted a photo of my old one and asked for your creative advice... Although, I know how insanely swamped you are with work right now, so the timing would have been pretty bad. Ah, well. In another life perhaps.
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