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02/06/2010: "They got me!"

Last Friday, they finally got me. Got the H1N1 vaccine.

Luckily, we got actual shots, not the nasal mist goofiness, so I had no side effects. I don't think I've ever been so happy to get a shot in my life.

This week I got to go through Combat Lifesaver class. For the third time. Its something that you're supposed to re-certify on every year, and I never manage to get anywhere close to that one year mark, so I keep getting sent through the entire class again. Which isn't all that bad because as we find out more about what is coming back from the battlefield, we know more about how we can actually save combat casualties.

And this was definitely the best version of the class that I've been through. The instructors were awesome, been there and done what they're talking about for real, not just teaching it, and they love what they do. And they had great hands-on simulator stuff - on the final day we had to clear a bunch of rooms and treat the casualties in them (dummies), and they did a good job of making it stressful - it was loud, smoky, fake blood everywhere, and you were constantly being rushed so that you wouldn't get yourself killed.

And then we got to clean up afterwords.

Note to self: do not have the color-blind guy cleaning blood off the walls. Unless he has people to point it out to him.

Corollary to note to self: Don't have the color-deficient guys being the ones to point out the fake blood. They can't see it too well either.

And then yesterday I had my first test in my Statistics class. Which I think went fairly well. I probly won't get the grade back for two weeks or so though. :/