Thursday, January 31, 2002

have cold, must find medication for "breathing tube".
just realized I spelt receptionist incorrectly in a previous post - hey, my job was to answer the phones and read the paper.

Monday, January 28, 2002

already lost thing to hold blow hole open - I think it is lodged somewhere in the carpet
Biggest mileage week since training for the marathon - everything aches, the heat pack and I are getting well acquainted.

Saturday, January 26, 2002

email from dad:
How is your course going? Learning the in's and out's of rhinorrhea? Bloody marvelous.

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

new chunk of something for my nose hole. how girlie, it glitters.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Things I am required to document daily:
search and rescue training with dogs
my running/racewalking training
my job search

And on the topic of job search, I have compiled a list of jobs I've had since moving to Canada 11 years ago. I like this list because it defies cohesion in a resume. You say flaky employment history, I say colourful.

To reduce the list I will not include temporary work (less than a month) as a job.
  • waitress - Zugg's vegetarien restaurant
  • shop assistant/muffin baker - Croissant Express (a natural foods bakery)
  • Calendar laminating - damn, I don't even remember what that business was called
  • Golf course mower and flower deadheader - the military golf course right by the Ottawa Airport
  • Receptionist - working for the company of the guy who owned the Senators hockey team
  • coffee pimp - grabbajabba (*worst job ever)
  • frozen yogurt maker - back at Croissant Express, I think out of pity, Jean-Yves the owner, invented this job. I had a key to the store, I kept track of my own hours, my job was to make batches of frozen yogurt and occasionally come up with new flavours. (*candidate for best job ever)
  • coffee pimp/wordperfect pimp - Corel Corporation
  • jewellery manufacturing - beecool body jewellery (*close second worst job ever)
  • web stuff - eyewire

ok, so most of these were summer jobs but at least half of that list has been post-graduation.

Sunday, January 20, 2002

Friday, January 18, 2002

pan mingus

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I have enough new music stuffed in my mp3 player to run a couple of hours without hearing the same song twice. a surprise gift from gerg.

Tuesday, January 15, 2002

Yesterday I ran 15km. It wasn't the only thing that happened yesterday.

Monday, January 14, 2002

Sunday, January 13, 2002

blue blur at the oval
Blue Blur during public skating hours.

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Friday, January 11, 2002

rhinorrhea; nosebleed
melanohistoma; black tissue tumor
acromycosis; abnormal condition of fungus in the extremities

well, I think those are the definitions according to the flash cards from Programmed Medical Language.

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

a study evening at SAIT. Touching people is weird, necessary for an EMT to do their job, but still a little weird. The rubber arm for practising IV's is terrifying. The rubber forearm is filled with squishy granules and two giant tubes to simulate veins. The "veins" extend past the severed ends of the arm and dangle just a little. The rubber over the veins has almost opened up from the few million practise needles - and then I look at my own forearm, the forearm a fellow student will be jabbing their own needle into. Today I wish I had 4 gauge veins.

Monday, January 07, 2002

I think it is called blood and rose revamp.

Saturday, January 05, 2002

I haven't been this cranky in a long while and to cap the evening off 2 of my dogs decide to fight with another dog, and each other, and then the other dog again. ergh. I apologized to the other dog owner but he didn't seem too impressed.