365 Project 1/8/10 and 1/9/10

My 1/8/10 submission may possibly break the rules. No picture today, but a very blurry video.

You remember the post I did about my Rockstar Partner?

Yeah, this guy.

There was a comment and a few emails about video being needed.

It took me awhile, but I managed to catch another one of Rockstar Partner’s shows, and while the video quality is craptastic (totally my fault), the audio is decent… If not a little loud.  So without further ado, I present RP.

This is a guy who I have barely known a year who has been there for me from day one.  I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to get to know not only him, but his ridiculously beautiful and sweet wife and their even more dazzling baby girl.

Working in private EMS, particularly in my area, well, it’s kind of thankless. It’s nice to have someone you can trust completely who will listen to you vent.  Venting is a good thing.

That’s where RP and I are. I’m grateful to have him around.  As a partner and as a fellow classmate.

By the way, when he’s singing at the top of his lungs at three in the morning, he doesn’t sound anything like this. And the lyrics don’t make much sense. Again, my apologies for the video quality.

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Lying in Wait.

Date:  01/09/10

Time:  1350ish

Subject:  My Dashboard, five minutes before a CCU clinical.

I know, this is some captivating stuff, yeah?  The truth is that I had my camera on me and knew that I needed to take a picture for today, and this was the only thing that caught my attention.

Medic school is stressful.  Anyone who’s done it once (or twice, or three times) will tell you that.    Even more so if you work full time and/or have smaller children while you’re going through it.  You work your ass off and try to be a good parent and a good spouse.  You are constantly buried in a big red book, or drug cards, or ACLS algorithms, or trying to remember what cranial nerve controls what.   When you aren’t fighting like hell to be a good parent for your little ones, you’re listening to a lecture.  When you aren’t fighting to stay awake during a lecture, you’re at work.  When you aren’t at work, you’re at a clinical. When you aren’t doing clinical time you’re fighting off nerves (at least I am) during a lab.  Every once in awhile you get to sleep.

It’s not fun, ya’ll. Not by a long shot.

That being said, becoming a Paramedic is something that is just in me.  I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world.