Becca came with me to the review session/open house for my EMT practical on Friday, and despite getting C-collared, longboarded, KED'd, splinted, and traction splinted, still agreed to come with me this morning to the Massachusetts EMT practical exam as my "patient" and let me do it all again ( Read more... )

My EMT class is done! I passed the final practical exam last weekend with flying colors, and the final written exam tonight; there is a shiny certificate in my backpack that says I passed the course; and I am registered to take the Massachusetts practical exam on September 20: I am on my way to becoming a Massachusetts EMT ( Read more... )

Oh hey, world. I'm still here, alive and kicking ( Read more... )

Spring in Boston is great. I love the brilliant sunshine and flawlessly clear blue sky, the pretty little crocuses peeping out of the ground in unexpected corners, and all the families out and about with small children and excited dogs. Lucky as I am, I don't even have allergies, so I can just revel in Daylight Savings Time and enjoy the extra ( Read more... )

Guys, guys. I BIKED TO WORK today!

!!!!!

And didn't get killed along the way, or even slightly maimed! Ergo, WIN.

I'm pretty sure one of the valets that works in my building was laughing at my amazing blue and be-daisy'd kids helmet, but I feel like that's totally fair, so! This morning has started out well, hopefully this will continue.

The past week or so, I've woken up to birdsong. So despite the snow and ice on the ground, I just knew in my bones that spring is nearly here! And today the weather is so ridiculously gorgeous that I got super antsy and had to run! (Note that Heartbreak Hill is in this route!! I can't believe it took me this long to realize how close to it I've ( Read more... )

It's 01:33, and I'm still in lab. This wouldn't be so bad if I were working on cool project, but I'm not. The day's schedule got all wacked-out because of the stupid pointless very important, hour-long all-TRC "breakfast meeting" at 10:00. It still wouldn't have been so bad, if my boss hadn't rescheduled our biweekly meeting (which is usually at ( Read more... )

Last Friday, I killed ("sac'd") and systematically pulled apart six mice. For practice. I was looking for their lymph nodes, which I will eventually be expected to harvest from experimental mice. Yesterday I dissected two more mice for practice ( Read more... )

I've attained official mouse wench status now, the metric being the number of people that ask me to do things for them in The Mouse House (à la Walker). Last Thursday I did ( Read more... )

More like mug-cakes! A few days ago phrenk posted this link for a cake in a mug, which idea I found intriguing, especially since I was in lab and hungry. marmiesgurl15 tried it and didn't like it much, and phrenk recommended frosting with the cake. I tried an alternate recipe tonight, which uses more traditional ingredients for a chocolate cake (in approximately the ( Read more... )