What I did while other people were on Spring Break.

It’s been a while since I last posted, and it’s been a while since I’ve done regular posting.

Well that all ends now! Well…it’ll actually end once I start posting regularly again, and one post hardly counts for regularly.

What better way to start again with this blog, than by sharing with you some changes in my life since I last posted:

-I grew a beard. Yes, I did. It’s not a good idea, I know that, but laziness turned into more laziness and before I knew it I had a beard. I would shave it off, but I’m too lazy. Plus it’s easier to just trim it now and then so I don’t get the crazy neck beard that would normally accompany the regular beard. gross.

-I’ve slacked off on going to the gym. I went to the gym one time last week. That marked the first time in about two weeks that I’d gone to the gym. That was last Tuesday. I’ve got to start going to the gym again - not so much for my health, but because I don’t want to feel like I’m paying 29.99 a month for nothing.

-I aced some tests. Specifically, my first exam in Legal Bibliography. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing, but somehow I pulled out a 98. I also made a 98 on my Final Exam for First Responder Class.

-I became a First Responder. That’s right, now I can do any one of the following:  CPR, splint a broken limb, stop arterial bleeding, treat shock, put on protective gear, strap someone to a backboard, deliver a baby, and lots of other neat stuff. Something tells me that my current position in the Parks System will not afford me many opportunities to use these new skills. However, we did go over how to remove a pencil that has been lodged in someone’s cheek - yes, that was an actual section in our book. Does that happen often?

Here are some things you can look forward to in the coming days and weeks on this blog:

- more Greyhound posts. I really like writing them. I hope you like reading them…because there’s a lot more coming.

- a post about riding in an ambulance. As a first responder I get to do a “ride-along” with Charleston County EMTs, in an ambulance, on one of their shifts. I get to ride in the back and go with them as they answer all kinds of calls. I’m a little nervous about it, but I’m more excited. The reason for this excitement is that when I was in the First Grade, my favourite tv show was Rescue 911. Due to this fact, I wanted to be an “ambulance” when I grew up. I had not distinguished the difference between paramedics and what they drove, so it was all the same for me. It would have been easier if the word “car” or “truck” would have been in the name. No kid wants to be a Fire Truck, or a Police Car. There might be some weird kid out there who wants to be a Police Cruiser, but I doubt it.  Either way, I get to live this weird childhood dream to at least ride in an ambulance.

- something really dumb that you’ll skip over, and I’ll delete later.

~ by aeqvitas on March 5, 2008.