I haven't used LJ in a coon's age and, hence, it seemed most appropriate to start with an Andra livejournal memorial meaningless-post-outa-nowhere. It's Sunday morning. I'm eating honeynut cheerios because I thought they were more regular type ones when i bought them and I'm thinking that I miss my friends that used to entertain me while I was at ( Read more... )

- I am officially National Registry Certified as an EMT. (if I use all caps, does it trick you into thinking it’s a stately accomplishment and, as such, certainly a process that doesn’t involve me strapping little brownish-grey plastic babies to backboards and combi-tubing a “patient” that had no limbs or torso, while wearing imaginary gloves ( Read more... )

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heheh he heheh

yes, amusement: it comes easily for me.

and more "heheh eh heheh":
even with all my fantasies of becoming a paramedic, I could never turn my back on the job I have now. How can I stay mad at a job where I get sent emails such as this one:

Subject: Guinea Pig Brain ( Read more... )

The fates tried to keep me down by making me uncoordinated enough to drop-kick my camera while trying to save it from a treacherous two foot fall (lachesis strikes!) on trip team awesome 1.0 (see destination of species photo set), hence making it more broken -- as well as thwarting my further attempts to humiliate myself and all others within flash ( Read more... )

I realized that I had never known happiness before the moment that I was lying in a pile of andra and horizontal blinds in my warm bedroom yesterday evening. --my not-outside-the-house bedroom ( Read more... )

a peek at a day in the life of the Clan Talaska of Florence Street-- Should you ever have wondered what I do when I'm not posting to livejournal, see Nero's entry for a glamourous misrepresentation of what I'm too busy doing to post.

in all honesty, I'm usually just too busy not posting to post which consists mainly of blank stares and EMT

I don't know how I've never done this before! At work I have microscopes! And slides! And in my skin I have blood! yes! And together they make ( Read more... )

I was doing well this morning, giving into the power of suggestion of my iPod's siren song like a good little media junkie; [song ⊆ sad \ andra = sad]. I'd blocked off most of my morning for an intense moping regimen and had a stocked reserve of anxieties at hand and ready to rock ( Read more... )

When I first started working in the lab I *accidentally* gave myself e. coli when working with bacterial cultures. I followed that up with inhaling a plume of SDS powder which can dissolve lungly goodness with a flare that most hazardous chemicals can't boast and turned the skin on my hands white by getting 30% H2O2 on them ( Read more... )