A whole week?!!! Don´t do that, you will have withdrawal symptoms, you´ll start seeing flying elephants with OS giant letters on their huge bellies... I know, I was there once... better use a timer as Lisa Kern once advised. Rated for the pictures!

We'll miss you but we want you to get A's like you are quite capable of doing. I procrastinate too and your hovel looks better than mine. Now go study!!

An entire week? Oh my!! I went for a few days without Open, but damn, I was a wreck.

But we understand. It must be done. Remember though, you see the pink elephants, give them pink peanuts!! :)

No! You can't! You must not! We have serious work here being done.... Please reconsider. I know you *will* be back though, so I don't/can't/won't consider this even remotely to be a flounce. Sob, wail, keen, cry.

Live for the day, we could all be dead from the swine flu tomorrow.

You know that "once you check in you can NEVER check out." Sell the kids, give away the house, and enjoy.

how'd you get a picture of my house?
I hope you got some OS-methadone!

You must be me? Your hovel is much nicer.
Move in with me? Ya blog all day. I'll cook.
I'll watch a sun and the moon, order chaos.

Male and Female, Madonna a sacred lover,
Good and Evil, life and death, O primordial,
Opposites existing in a yin~yang, a Universe,
and this ll exist in perfect harmony, no leave?
Sometimes we see a shadow, but there's light!
~
We all see through a same- looking glass darkly.
But when face to face, a doubt will then departs.
I say that to me. Dance in the Light of the Moon!

I just bantering with me. You. It is the soliloquy.
Life is this peculiar? Yes! To be or not to be. stay?
The chores do need to be done. I hear You. Ya me!

Tomorrow is a day away.
No worry. Anticipate good.
You will okay before Ya merry.

huh? What you sayin'? Somethin'!

Cold turkey is the only way!

How clever you are! Trust me, I understand. You didn't even mention the guilt produced from letting other duties slide. My priorities have definitely shifted because of OS!

i don't know about cold turkey. don't they have methadone for os addiction?

An entire week? OMG!! Don't do it.. I done it and it is so pain staking I don't wish it on anyone else. I do wish you the best and please don't be gone long. Because I will miss you.

Brave, dedicated soul...Doubt I could last that long: this is more than an addiction...

This is the cutest flounce ever. Refresh and please return -- in a few days!

I will miss you dustbowl! (Nice house, by the way!) I, too, must curtail my time at OS because I start teaching in the hospital tomorrow. OS has a way of sucking the marrow out of one's existence. Study hard and do well. We'll still be here when you get back. (At least some of us. Many, I suspect, will be in jail or rehab).

I will so miss your gracious presence, diva. Picture me waving goodbye, slowly and with melancholy, from the shore as your ship moves off. I'll be waiting. (And shouldn't we all be tending to our carbon creatures more? You're on to something).

Steve,
I've been in jail and rehab so many times that I'm afraid to leave this place.

I managed to go two weeks now I am worse than before

We will miss you, but your studies are more important, honestly.

..... unless ........ unless it is possible to combine the two ....... perhaps you could type some of your nursing essay's in here? Could that not be of interest to some????????????

Looking forward to your return, when you will proudly declare you have passed.

Study hard!

we'll be here when you get back :).

Hehehehehehehehehe... you are too silly and funny! I, too, am trying to make a break for it, but it is VERY, VERY hard!!!! Hugs!!!!

It can be done. You need to do your homework young lady! Kisses...see you when the semester is over.

Love your flounce and want to see a pic of you in a tutu.

Meanwhile place us in the deep freeze and get good grades on those tests! We are rooting for you to do that!

Monte

I am SO impressed with your decision! You mean you're leaving right after you stop reading all of our comments, right? What if we never stop?

y'all come back now!

Forgo food, drink, sex, but never give up OS. Okay, maybe a little sex. You can always sustain yourself later...Good luck!
Rated & Cheers!

Oh God diva, NO! NO! You must prioritize. Your friends will be left longing for your words of kindness and wisdom.

You're choosing some useless education over OS friends? It's the educators that are truly the cause of your dismay, not us OSers.

You doubt me?

Do we expect perfection as do your instructors? HELL NO!

Do we expect you to rise from a fitful night of dreams fearing you're going to be left asking for pennies on the street corners of Oklahoma City after failing finals, only to study even harder? HELL NO! In fact, we would gladly send you pennies for free.

Do we intimidate you and make you look at boring damned textbooks and wrinkly old cadavers asking for $200.00 dollars to fix their windshields broken by some obnoxious hillbilly kid long ago? HELL NO!

Do we expect you to stay up late at night, responding to question after question? Well maybe.

You can clearly see, far outweighing the pros that the cons of school are surely your problem, not us here at OS.

Choose wisely my dear Okie friend. Choose wisely.

laugh, good luck with that woman :D

Cranky patients or OS? OS or cranky patients? Enjoy your week.

How sad for your poor neglected family. Totally get you though, I took a month off but am now coming back just a little more judiciously.

Since you´re off to somewhere for a good while would you do me a great and personal favor and send me more pix.... They´re no French, rather Southern, but they´ll do... privately so I can put them on as wall to wall murals.... I´m sick of paint anyway.... My housekeep won´t like it but that´s her ploblem.... !! Thankx for the pix (sofar).. have a "good trip"..
From the GripeVine.... & Donah..//