summer

the summer is officaly here and i have to say that i am excited i ended the year strong with a 3.62 gpa at unity all a's and b's, i am fairly sure that it is the best that i have ever done there, and so i am glad that i did so well, even more so becuase this last semester was such a struggle for me to get through. witht he end of the school year came several things for me, it means work is right around the conner, i left unity ambuklance for the summer, and i moved into my new house. right now i am actualy not anywhere near new england, i am actualy sitting in fairfax va waotong to head out at the crack of dawn to go to my brothers grandation cermone at UVA in the mornign, i think the real even is not intill sunday so i am not so sure what we are doing in the moring leaving at the ass crack of dawn but whatever, i got my way and i am only here for all of three days, not even before i have to head back up north. over the last month or so i have been putting in motion a place for me to live next year, ok i lied, i have been workign on this since i got back from spring break, but things are now all in place, i will be living in what is well known as the A-Frame to all you folk at unity and in the sorunounding area. its a great little a frame cabin cottage thing that sits on top of a hill over looking the entire area and you can even see the mounts aka sugarloaf off in the distance. I moved in officaly yesterday monring, i went out and had a set of keyes made so i can have two, and i have to say that i am very excited about living there for the next year or so, if all goes well then i plan on staying there intill the end of college
and i hope all goes well, i will be living with a girl named oliva, i think we will get along, in fact we already have plans to get a cat! i am excited to say the least

I left UVAC goign strong i think i spent most of may transporting a PT at least twice a week for dialiasis and oging on just about every other call that came in, although things were quite the last few days there, i am lookign forward to going back and ginia having her I so we have more people on the team who really know what they are doing
I would love to take my I but i just dont think that i have the time for it right now, its a very commiting class with a lot of clynical time, but you know what i think that i could do it if i put my mind to it, perhaps in the spring, but thats only if UVAC will pay for the class


lets see well i am very excited to start work at the start of the week, come tuesday you will be looking at the newest rigdgerunner that the amc has, i have to say that i am a little bit worried becuase lets face it im am not int he best of shape, but i sure as hell will be by the end of the summer, but i hve to admit, my feet and knees have been givning me some problems latley and i am ont looking forward to those flaring up over the summer, lets just keep our fingers crossed that it wout happer. i am looking forward to the hiking and i am looking forward to making some money! i have to say that the bank is jsut about broke at the moment, my car jsut neede a new calipe, i had to fork over a lot of money for the stove and i have sunk a lot! of cash into getting ready for the summer, so i hope that it pans out
im excited
more to come
cheers
t

end of the year approaches

the end of the school year is fast drawing closer each and every day, and with that comes stress and lots of work as to be expected right now i am a little more then a month out of surgery, and when i say a little i mean about two or three days over a month, and things are feeling good, i started PT last week and i like the guy that is in charge of kicking my ass back to where it should be, although i am not exctaly sure where that is since i have not had my shoulder in good shape for somehting like a year and a half anyway i am seeing the guy three times a week for the next month and a bit, and i am hoping that in that month i can make leaps and bonds with the guy , i am hpoing that i can get in a few runs before the school year is over and on top of that i need to be able to go and work soon so things have to be working, and if they are not well then i guess i am going to have to go ahead with it anways, i dont really ave much of a choice. today for the first time since i left nols i put on a backpack and went for a bit of a hike, nothign major just around in the wood lot and down some of the roads and back to campus. right now the trail syestem that is in place on the land that unity owns is not currently trails, but more like streams. it was a muddy hike but i truely enjoyed the time to myself i managed to get the pack on with out too much trouble, but it was not the easiest thing in the world, and the whole thign was under the watchful eye of leslie, after a few mins everything seemed to be feeling good and off i set into the woods, and things were good intill i got back and though t it would be wise to take my back off witht eh right hand, that is to say that i removed the pack and let it drop onto my right arm with out thinking about the whole thing. it wasent pleasent so to say. but i was glad that i was able to sholder a pack with out being in pain i am taking this as a good sign

Surgery and such

One of the nice things about not being able to sleep at night is that you get all sorts of good things done when no one else is around to make noise, things like papers for school realding lots of books and updating one's blog. thus what i am doing now. since the last time i wrote in i have managed to get my self in for surgery on my sholder, and while it at the moemtn hurts like hell i am excited baout the whole thing... other then the fact that its ugly as sin and the staples are going to scar like sin. I am excited about the fact that it is finally getting taken care of, after all the intinal wounding was well over a year ago in the fall of last year. of course if i had it taken care of then, i wouldnt be an issue now. neather the less there is nothing that i can do to change that. right now i am baout a week out of the surgery and i have to say that i am pleased with the ROM that i currently have, but i am not too impressed with the ammount of stiffness. it still hurts a fair ammount of the time but that is mostly becuase i am no longer taking the pain killers that they game me, i couldnt stnad the side effects of those things they were driving me nuts. right now I am on spring break from unity and its good not be having to do too much, but i kow that the second i get back i am going to be going nuts wiht things to do before the school year is over, and i am not looking forward to that crazyness but i am looking forward to working this summer. right now it is looking like i have to go home to my parents house for a few days but i am going to try and keep that as minimal as possible becuase i need o get back to maine and start the process of making money... this summer promises to me a good one and i am looking forward to my job on the at I stand to make some decent money depending on how the whole tax situation goes down who knows perhaps i will claim my self as an independent this year? I am hoping that i can finish the summer with a thousand in the bank after paying off my car loan
one of the bad parts about this whole surgery thing is that right nnow i am out of the emt world. which means that i am out of a paycheck as well as something to do on the weekends. its easy to say no i cant drink and party becuase im on call, but with that taken away i have no excuse other then the fact that i simply dont want to. humph
peace its late

school job searches and snow

things have been fairly quite here in unity for the last three weeks or so even more so the last week i dont htink i have been on more then two calls i think that is a bit unusual to say the least, but then again that is good and it means people are healty, but for some one who depends on a scant 20 bucks a run to pay his bills its not good
so far i have not had a whole lot of luck with the whols summer job search, that is intill today. i finaly had my interview with the amc and i think that it went very well, at least i hope thats how it went. i sent off an email to KP letting them know that i would not be coming back for the summer, and while that was a hard thign for me to do i felt that it was nessary, i willl miss my friends but i hope to make lots of new ones where ever i end uo for the summer, last night i also sent off an email to camp high rocks to see what was going on with my hiring process didnt here back form them today and i have to say that i am starting to lose faith in that camp and you know what im not so sure that i want to work in a place that is going to blow off people like they have to me, of course it could just be an error in commucation and emails got crosse or somehting but it is a bit discouraging. i think that is safe to say that i would most like to work for the amc this summer and i feel like it would be the best for me emotionaly physicaly, body wise that is
as for the snow, we have gotten two good dumpings of nearly a foot since i have beack at school and several little stoms inbetween but i think it is time for more! i would love more snow that is and i want to go skiing
well its late so i guess i schol close since ihad class early in the morning
peace all

same $%#* next day

one of the problems with aa lot of the voleenteer squads out there is the fact that you have the old school and you have the new school neither know the right way of doing things and neither one of them is willing to work with the other. you you get the same old shit every time you go in and then you wounder why your squad is catching so much flak and things are not going smoothly. i got a good pice of advice today, dont let it run you life dont feel commited to doing doing it. well that is the problem, i do feel commited. i have now been an emt for about a year and it has been a big part of my life. but even though it has been a year i still feel like i need a lot more experience to work with, and i dont feel like i am getting that with uvac sad but true, i want to get out of there when i can and go work for a real squad and only run with unity when i have the time. i want things to be good and i want to keep getting new skills, uvac is old school thigns need to change the shit is going to hit the fan.

looking back

looking back on the last year a lot of things have happened since the start of 2008. perhaps a moment of reflection is in order, since now we are actualy in the new year and i am goign to be writing the wrong date for a long time to come, at least half way to 2010
one year ago i was getting ready to start my second semester of the first year of college, i was jsut happy to have made it through the first one in ne pice and i was looking forward to hitting the second one head one, this time last year i ahd jsut started dating leslie and i was looking forward to moving on with the relatenship and to seeing where it went. i had just passed my EMT pratical exam and battaled through the maine winter storms that swept through the entire state right before x mas, i was horribaly sick but in general happy and looking forwarding to taking my national regrersity exam at the end of january and start running with unity ambulance on a regular bases. at this point in the year i had been running for somthign like three months as an observer and was ready to take the next steps towards becomign a full time member of the squad... lets see what else happened in 2008 ... school did get started and i ahd my room to my self because keith decided to move out the spring semester at unity was nice but the classes wer not what i had hoped that they would be i remember finding all of the gen ed stuff i had to take to be very boring and the fact that i was not allowled to be in any of the other cool adventure ed classes annoying. here i am a year later and i still have most of the same thoughts on the amtter of education i recall that mid way thorugh the spring i started really looing for jobs and decided that kingsley pines would be a good optetion to take for the summer, then there was the end of the semester and being worried abotut final grades and not seeing leslie for the summer, lets not froget the epic car pooling road trip fomr maine to va with my car blowing up and our little stop in new jersey and then before i knew it the sumemr was starting and it was off to canada with brother cousing and grand father for a few days to see some plays and visit some family good times and then in the blink of an eye it was time for work . my first real summer camp experience where i found out that i like the work a lot but that i was more like my monther then i had ever hoped o be, when i look back on that time now it seemed to fly by but day by day then it was slow going a lot of work and a lot of fun, i was hard being away form leslie knowing that i would only be able to see her for a little bit of time whe i got done ... before i know it it was time for the teary good buys and the summer was over it was off to unity for a week to see leslie and get ready for nols. wow was i that little and scaed looking when i came to unity as a freshmen?! i hope not leslie is now an ra and i think that she is going to do a great kob. those days flew by i now recall and then it was time to for nols off into the woods for three months 94 days i was out int he west having the time of my life and going throguh some of the hardest challanges that i have ever faced now im bak and it is a new year. when i look at the whole of 2008 this way it sems like there is not a whole lot to it, the whole bloody year zipped by before i really even noticed the stupid thing, some thigns are the same i am once again looking for jobs and looking forward to gionig back to unity ambulance aand excited about the classes for the spring, things are looking up i hope not that they were really down, in several days i leave for maine! i hope there is some snow!