It’s strange…though it doesn’t seem like it, I think about posting updates here fairly often. As in, once a day or so. But I’ve always felt the need to quash these instincts. For some reason keeping (friends/family/blog) up to date constantly just isn’t something I do - rather, I’ll hold out until some branch event of my life has wrapped up neatly, at which point it can be packaged and presented.

So here is a latter-year’s resolution to let go of this incessant need for a complete story and let the fragments fly as they come around. (Of course, the psychology of relating this resolution by name to the oft-broken new year’s resolution is tell-tale…)

Let’s see…currently unconcluded events…

Summer. Summer was pretty much a lot of studying and lectures/rotations for EMT certification. There are some good stories there. So if you stop breathing or pushing blood around, let me know. I’ll convert ya, no sweat.

Why unconcluded? I still need to take a national exam to finish off the certification and actually practice. I went into it thinking I’d want to work EMS/911, but the life of constant calls to life-in-danger events was just a media-induced fantasy. In reality, most of the time is spent at the station with little to do, and 95% of the calls that are actually run require little in the way of medical care. Of course, it’s that last 5% of people for whom you’ll need to use ALL skills available, so the work does balance somewhat. Then again, each and every call was a rush when you first get into the ambulance and let the sirens fly…

(more to come)