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Title: Nurse Jackie
Genre: TV Sitcom, Hospital, Drama, Dark Comedy, 30 minute episodes
MPAA Rating: TV-MA
Year: 2009-2015 7 Seasons
Produced by: Showtime.
Top Billed Cast: Edie Falco, known for “The Sopranos,” and array of big star regulars/guest stars.
Brief Synopsis: A nurse who juggles her family and pain-killers. Not a good combo but makes for a laugh here and there. Not realistic on all levels, hallucinogenic, trippy, strange when its not.
My Word to the Wise: It’s anyone’s guess how we “should” portray functional drug addicts working in an ER unit. I have no judgment for that reason. But I kept asking myself this question: should it be so funny in between the darkness?

The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

I just finished binge watching all the “Nurse Jackie” episodes. She reminds me of a trainer I had at Pizza Hut years ago who was bitter my education brought me in to the company above her. She was addicted to cigarettes and happy hour. Some addicts feel they work so hard we shouldn’t ever question them, What a crock of shit. Nurse Jackie embodies this type of what I call “Tweaker” thinking.

This is a good show in many ways because it dares to look at functional addiction with no sugar coating in the end.

I didn’t like every aspect of it though, which is likely in a show that runs this long, there have to be some experiments made to see what the audience bites on. If a character gets under your skin it’s for one of two reasons: 1) They remind you of a true life character or 2) it’s a terrible script with back and forth implausibility. I’d say both are true at different points.

If you like ER shows and/or you liked “Breaking Bad” you’ll enjoy the hybrid. There’s a bit more dark humor in “Nurse Jackie.” A spoonful of humor helps the medicine go down I suppose. But is this medicine? How else can a show present such dark subject matter?

I think every day I write at least one thing I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I’m a “reach out” sort of person but it seems so many blogs out there just don’t see blogging like I do.

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Tell us about a time you found out after the fact that you’d been mistaken and you had to eat a serving of humble pie.

Source: Humble Pie | The Daily Post

Ok, I’ve read a few of the reactions to this prompt and I have a reaction to those. First of all, I recognize that not a few of the WordPress.com community are authors and that is why they come here to blog. Personally, I am an author but of another sort. I wrote a blog about my life up to age 43 and self-published it. I have no delusions it will ever sell many and I’m satisfied with my work for what it is. I have a wife and kids and a 9 to 5 job as a fourth grade teacher and that is the end all of my fame. Anything else would surprise me. Now, back to the “authors” among us. I came to this community to let peers know I have a blog, not to get the to read my book. I write something SMALL every day not to usually exceed 250 words.

There’s a reason for this: I don’t have time to read much more as I blog hop. TBH, very little out there is worth reading beyond those 250 words. But I digress. I think some of these authors stating the progress of their books etc. might do well to get a slice of humble pie. Here you are just bloggers. I think every day I write something I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I am just another one of the teeming throng calling itself a horde of writer on WordPress.com. I only wish there was a way to get “in” a circle with like-minded bloggers who share and share alike, comment and comment alike and try very hard to stay humble and not appear precocious. It’s weird to be in the blogosphere, you have to know what success is because if you think it’s in subscribers, money, or traffic, you’ll probably never be successful.

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I think every day I write at least one thing I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I’m a “reach out” sort of person but it seems so many blogs out there just don’t see blogging like I do.

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Tell us about a time you found out after the fact that you’d been mistaken and you had to eat a serving of humble pie.

Source: Humble Pie | The Daily Post

Ok, I’ve read a few of the reactions to this prompt and I have a reaction to those. First of all, I recognize that not a few of the WordPress.com community are authors and that is why they come here to blog. Personally, I am an author but of another sort. I wrote a blog about my life up to age 43 and self-published it. I have no delusions it will ever sell many and I’m satisfied with my work for what it is. I have a wife and kids and a 9 to 5 job as a fourth grade teacher and that is the end all of my fame. Anything else would surprise me. Now, back to the “authors” among us. I came to this community to let peers know I have a blog, not to get the to read my book. I write something SMALL every day not to usually exceed 250 words.

There’s a reason for this: I don’t have time to read much more as I blog hop. TBH, very little out there is worth reading beyond those 250 words. But I digress. I think some of these authors stating the progress of their books etc. might do well to get a slice of humble pie. Here you are just bloggers. I think every day I write something I think is cool and return a few hours later to find no one had liked it or even had read it. I guess that’s my humble pie. I am just another one of the teeming throng calling itself a horde of writer on WordPress.com. I only wish there was a way to get “in” a circle with like-minded bloggers who share and share alike, comment and comment alike and try very hard to stay humble and not appear precocious. It’s weird to be in the blogosphere, you have to know what success is because if you think it’s in subscribers, money, or traffic, you’ll probably never be successful.

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Writers revise. It’s part of the writing process. It takes your breath away when you go back and scan your own work to find errors. Revision is also a mindset.

In response to: Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “vis.” Use a word, or tie your post’s theme around a word, that contains the letters VIS, in that order.

You would have been so embarrassed if they had been published and you are so glad you caught them and changed them. Revision is the opposite of dogma or stream of consciousness. While all have their part in writing, revision is what gives writing its smart look and cohesive form. The animal in us blurts out whatever it wants without few filters, revision reins it in and makes it more palatable for the reader.

Young men finding their way in the world would do well to revise their goals along the way. They way have lofty ideals to be in the movies or become a real estate mogul when a happier goal is to pay one mortgage and work a job he loves all of his life. These types of goals are like pruning trees. They are called goal revision. Whenever I get a big creative idea I want to try, I have learned to keep it open to revision. The truck is to not become lazy and lose the spur of the moment dream but keeping it alive and ope to revision. It gets easier with practice.

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Shoulda Woulda Coulda.”