This has been pretty long in coming. The ads and spam finally got to me, so I'm on wordpress now at user name rtayce. My hope is to actually start writing more! And maybe to set a feed to keep up with folks...

If you ski and want to take advantage of one of the few opportunities to actually do hands-on medical stuff, you should come to the ski patrol orientation during one of the next couple of weekends.

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It struck me the other day how similar anger and depression were for me. Each has the quality where I feel like I could grab it by the corner and flip it, but I am often thoroughly reluctant and almost lazy to do it.

"I'm here because I want the training to pull out the people stupid enough to put themselves in these kinds of situations. And y'alls are here to receive the training to /put/ yourself into these kinds of situations?"

Last night was the final WRFA class. It was a really good experience, though stressful in kind of unexpected ways, and right now, I'm glad to have the evenings back (well, really, evening, because the Wednesday that was WRFA from 6-9 is now MTR from 6-10 ( Read more... )

Thinking back on the mission last night - a recovery for someone who seemed like a great lady. It was good to be out there; the adrenaline rush immediately got me out of the slump I was feeling stuck in. I wasn't of particularly much help, since I slipped on an icy slope and fucked up a finger on my right hand, but I learned a tremendous amount ( Read more... )

Being furloughed in February turns out to not be such a great thing. The SAD tends to hit me pretty hard in Feb (and always kind of unexpectedly, since Dec and Jan are so unproblematic), and it's hard for me to not have a task, a team, and a plan in general. In theory I'm going back to work at Sublime on the 14th, which is not the worst thing in ( Read more... )

The other problem with no-but instead of yes-and, especially when it's perceived as (regardless of whether or not it actually is) a pattern is that it sets people up for a crouched, adversarial interaction. This means that 1) the things put forth in the first place will be heavily filtered, 2) the things that DO get verbalized, will be done so in a ( Read more... )

As I was driving home from the studio today, the car in front of me swerved. I looked to see what was going on, and staggering across the road was an incredibly drunk-looking miniature mutt with a very human face. It took me a second to react, then I swerved in turn as the mutt staggered around some more. It took another few seconds to process ( Read more... )

This was going to be part of the 2010 entry, but that was getting to be pretty huge. So to start with, a brainstormy-type list. It's really important for me to get this stuff down in writing; I feel like there are all these things I want to do, but they are so nebulous in my head that mostly they stress me out ( Read more... )