thez | end-of-the-week blogging: Feb 14th (Reply)

► Once again, no pictures this week, so here are two photos of me ~~screwing around~~ working in the cockpit of a TA-4 Skyhawk back in 2008.

► As I mentioned in a previous post, I went to the Phoenix Art Museum on Wednesday. I’d never been there before; I thought maybe The Met had spoiled most other art museums for me, but I loiter so long at each exhibit that I can’t even make it through the entirety of the PAM in one go. Took some notes on artists and concepts I want to look up later, and I’m sure they’ll be popping up on my tumblr.

► I DID MY FIRST TWO BLOODS THIS WEEK. Which is to say, white blood cell studies. Which is to say, hospitals draw blood from a patient, send it to our pharmacy, I centrifuge it and rinse it until I’ve isolated the white blood cells, tag them with radioactive material, recombine them with the patient’s plasma, and sent it back to the hospital where they inject it and wait between six and twenty-four hours to take an image of where the cells have traveled to in order to locate acute infections. Or you can just read about it here. Anyway, it’s very gross and very cool.

► The to-do list was successful again! I got all the info I need about certification renewal, looked at ticket prices for my Canada Adventure, cancelled my goddamn gym membership at last, did some writing for Akhet, and made some progress on apartment cleaning for

mindsplinters's and

tatterpixie's visit (DID I MENTION instead of doing NOLA this year they are coming to visit ME? WE WILL HAVE WONDERFUL DESERT ADVENTURES AND I'M SO EXCITED TO SHOW THEM ALL THE LOVELY SONORAN PLACES THAT ARE CLOSE TO MY HEART!).

► This week I ought to…

complete at least 2 CE courses for my cert renewal

finalize the dates with work and buy my tickets for my nanners visit

DO MY TAXES, WHEEE

keep working on the apartment (a lot of this is stuff that needs doing anyway, but it’s nicer knowing I’ll have the Casa Clan here soon to enjoy the fruits of my cleaning and decorating labor)