They were dumb enough to let me play with needles, so of course I stabbed myself

Today in my clinical practice of medicine class we had an injections workshop where we practiced giving and getting injections (we didn't really practice getting them we just practiced on eachother so we got stabbed a lot). Anyway, our professor went through this whole long thing in class about being careful and not messing around while we were holding the needles cause he didn't want anyone stabbing themselves or anyone else. The entire time he was giving this little lecture, I was sitting there thinking, I'm not gonna be messing around and I'm still gonna end up stabbing myself. So we got through the intramuscular and subdermal shots fine and then came the intradermal. I opened up the needle and I could not for the life of me get the cap off. Being the genius that i am, I decided to just pull harder; well, the cap came off, but the needle proceeded to go into my left middle finger on the palm side of my finger on the left side of the finger...it went all the way across my finger came out the right side and hit my middle finger...that would be far ore impressive if you saw how small the needle was. I also managed to stab through multiple blood vessels so now I have a bruise across my finger. Being as coordinated as I am, after that I got a new needle, got it all filled up with saline solution, and then proceeded to drop it on the floor. It was slightly ridiculous. I felt like people felt like I was nervous about the shots or something, I knid of wanted to tell the boiling soup on my hand story or the slamming my head into the ceiling story, but I figured normal people that aren't me can only handle witnessing so much clumsiness in a day.

stupid heater

Today I got home from going to the sabres game w/ med school people (so not the same as nd games with you guys fyi) and realized I had to put my scrubs in the dryer for lab tomorrow; well, funny story about how my washer was open and still totally full of water cause someone opened it and stopped the cycle right at the beginning. There are two possibilities for this, the first is that I'm a dumbass and forgot to close it after i put my scrubs in yesterday. The second (and the one that I'm going with so that I don't feel like an idiot) is that I've had maintainance people in my apaetment the past two days because my heater is broken so I'm thinking for some reason they couldn't have the washer running while working on the heater and opened it and forgot to close it (yes its unlikely but it's what i'm going with.
today they told me that it was my air conditioner leaking that broke my heater. the best part about that is that I had my air conditioner set at 75 so I think its actually been on maybe 3 or 4 times since i moved in. fantatic. supposedly my heater will be fixed tomorrow which would be fantastic cause im cold.
Anyway, theres not actually a point to this. I'm just waiting for the washer to finish so I can put my scrubs in the dryer and go to bed. It's taking forever and I'm bored. It's pretty much all the heater's fault which I guess makes it all the air conditioners fault

Bridget: 1; Deer: 0

On my way home last night, I hit my first deer. I feel like I've done pretty well so far... I mean, I've been driving for over 8 years in the Midwest and have avoided plenty of them, so yeah... it was only a matter of time. It wasn't that bad though... there's not much damage to the car and I'm fine. But I think it's kind of funny so I thought I'd tell you all. Anyway, about 30 seconds after I crossed the state line and entered Iowa, I saw the deer in the ditch on my left. I hit the brakes and just as I was coming to the end of my stop, the deer kept running full speed across the road and collided with the front of the car. Then it went flying into the ditch on the other side. It got some pretty good air. The best part of all of this is that I was on the phone with Jeremy at the time, so he got to hear it all happen. I'm pretty sure I yelled some loud four-letter words (sorry about that, Jeremy). I don't think the deer survived... I didn't walk over and check, but it didn't look like it was moving. R.I.P., Bambi.

22.5

Late last night, I suddenly realized that it was my half birthday. Instead of being a happy moment, it was more of a "Oh shit! What am I doing with my life" moment.

It didn't help that on Tuesday, the very day Nick announced his sweet job (Congrats BTW), I had filled out an application to work minimum wage at Gamestop.

Thanks, cruel irony. FML



Don't worry, that's the end of the downer talk, because in reality life isn't all that bad. Actually, the Gamestop job is coming about because a good friend of mine let me know that they could use some extra help over the holidays. He's worked there since High School, so it can't be that bad. Plus, I could use the extra cash while I work on applications to grad schools and legit jobs.

Meanwhile, I may become part of a very interesting business adventure. The scoutmaster who hired me for camp and the canoe trip wants my help with a new idea of his. Basically, he wants to start selling stuff to the government, especially now that his new partner gives them veteran owned small business status. My job would be to look for opportunities that his company can bid for. I would do this on my own, and I wouldn't get a salary. However, if I found a lead that led to a successful contract, he would compensate me for it.

Yesterday, we went to a sort of meet and greet with other companies, and I realized that I'm probably in way over my head (remember, I went to engineering school, not business school). I'm still going to give it my best shot though. At worst, it just wastes some of my time, but if I can actually find success, it could be well worth it.

My incredible driving abilities (and possibly some other updates)

I've decided that being a medical student is going to wind up with me dying in a car crash. I seem to have too much school in my head to ever be capable of focusing on driving). My first story- I was with Gloria driving to her program director's house for a potluck dinner. This one actually has nothing to do w/ my inability to focus on driving thanks to med school- we were driving west at like 6:30 so the sun was right in my eyes and I had my little visor thing down so it was blocking my vision too. Anyway, I went right through a redlight. Didn't know it was even there until Gloria told me that I went through it. Luckily there were no cars or cops so whatever, but it was bad. My other one really is cause of med school though. I had a test today, it was my third in a week so my brain was pretty fried. Anyway i went up to a light to turn left. The light turned green so i went. About halfway through turning i realized all the lights turned green and not just the arrow so it was not actually my turn to go. Luckily there was a girl on the otherside of light that figured out that i wasnt actually trying to cut her off and just made a mistake and she let me go, but it couldve turned out rather badly. So anyway, i feel like i should not be allowed to drive while in medical school.
speaking of medical school, i had my first anatomy test on friday. There was one question that was an x-ray of a hand/wrist. One of the questions was pointing to the radius and asked what ligament attached there. I hadn't bothered studying ligaments so I was completely lost so i'm looking at it and looking at it and finally i decide to just bs an answer. So i think to myself, ok its on the lateral side and its in the wrist, I'll call it the lateral carpal ligament. So I'm thinking the graders are gonna be laughing at my answer. Turns out it was the right answer. I was really excited. I was even more excited when I realized the test was out of 210 points and not 220 meaning i got an 80 instead of the 76 I thought I got. Clearly i'm a genius.
Aside from school my life is pretty boring so not much else to talk about. hope everyone is doing well!

Splitting out

Right so, just posting to mention that I've started writing my own blog. Reasoning for the most part is explained here. Oh and in case you don't want to take the time to look - I now have a Job :).

Already posted this on my facebook, but if any of you are interested, I have an extra ticket to ND vs. WSU in San Antonio.

Any takers?