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One more thing to add to the list of things not to say in class:

*Instructor lectured on persecution of Jews during the bubonic plague, otherwise known as black death, in which 1/3 of humanity on earth died.

– Random clueless student: “Dr. Rosenfeld, why were the Jews persecuted?”

– Me: “Because they were Jews!”

The class immediately erupts in both jeers and laughter, half the class thinking I am making fun of Jews and laughing about it, and the other half thinking I am making fun of Jews and booing me. The only two people in the classroom not laughing are me and the instructor (who is of Jewish descent, if you didn’t catch it from the name!) He immediately calms down the class, clarifying my statement by saying that what I meant was that that is just what was done to Jews in the day, and has been done to Jews for thousands of years. Anyway, it was interesting.

So yeah, class is over with. WooHoo. Next week I just have 2 finals, a few final papers due, and a end of semester party. We are all looking forward to visiting Washington!

Märia and I have been reading lots of books recently… I have read Superfreakonomics (superfun!) and a biography on Ayn Rand. The lady was genius and crazy all swirled up. =)

Me, Mom, Seporah and Felicity all made and decorated and baked a gingerbread man at Seporah’s school the other day. Everyone had fun.

Yeah, I am coming off very very blah today, so here are some videos guaranteed to make you smile. I dare you to try to watch them and not grin. =)

So my first week of annual training in the guard was all Combat Life Saver class, which I took active side probably 5 times.  So I really kinda just blew off the class.  I sat all the way in the back and goofed off with the others in my unit, who were also all prior service and had also all taken the class multiple times.  Not a bad idea for me.  Or the other 2 E-4s.  But the Sgt who was in charge of us should have been upfront.  He comes off as a really smart guy, really!  But when the test hit, well, lets just say it wasn’t pretty.

As for me, I aced the test, got my IV stick on the first try, and did well enough that 2 others who just wanted IVs, but couldn’t find anyone that could hit them, including the Medics, asked me to get them and I did them too!  So 3 IVs in 3 tries.  I offered myself as a vein donor because towards the end there were lots of people who had missed 8-10 times and we were running out of veins.  So I volunteered myself and got stuck 8 times.  And since I was kind of walking them through the procedure and actually put my own catheter in once, I was only missed twice.  6 successful IVs!

But last of all is this little beauty.  Talk about uncomfortable.