Raq, how long will you be in the states?

I'm helping Kara's teacher do assessments of the class today. It's quite fun. I have to be back there in an hour to help some more. This time I get to bring Aidan. It could be interesting.

A personal trainer avg. salary is 33k a year, nationally. A corporate trainer avg. salary in DC is 42k a year.

Cons: May attempt to assassinate presidential candidate at mention of Chinese food.

Note: may or may not be a con, depending on candidate.

Hmm...the downside really doesn't seem to outweigh the...hello, Mr. Seekrit Servus.

ION, we had our biochem attack training today. There was some humor. We all got our new MK-1 sets, which is the self-inject pen you use if you're in a chemical attack hot zone. These bad boys push 6 cc of fluid into your muscle in under 10 seconds; talk about pressurized. I saw a demo once where the guy pushed one against a piece of plywood - the needle punched right through and the atropine sprayed all over the far wall, about 6 feet away.

So the instructor is telling us how effective the MK-1 is. "We gassed a rabbit with sarin gas, and it went into convulsions; 15 minutes later it was dead. We gassed a second rabbit, and gave it the atropine at 14 minutes--"

My friend D-- interrupts: "Did the rabbit blow up?"

The instructor glares at him. "The rabbit fully recovered. We put it back in its cage and it was good to go."

I poke my colleague: "Great! You'll be perfectly able to do your job! All you do is twitch and nibble on lettuce."

More glaring.

Well, I took the Ambien last night - i definately slept. however, I am still fuzzy so I am thinking it is a rare thing.

Matt's co president was going on and on about how good Matt's plan fro his group is. - you know the one he has been talking about for over two years. Whatever.

Ahem. Sunday, however, is very good for me.

I could do Sunday too-- that would actually be better than Friday.

Another woman who looks better bald than Britney SPears: my niece Kim.

Go check out the rest of her site while you're there. She's a wonderful artist and musician as well. ::shameless plug::

"Great! You'll be perfectly able to do your job! All you do is twitch and nibble on lettuce."

Heh. I'd be worried about those anti-gas shots, though. They were linked to a lot of Gulf War syndrome cases.

my niece Kim.

Seriously stunning.

That is a seriously intense look. After peeking through her site, I realise I have no idea what she actually looks like.

Or if there is an actually.

Or if there is an actually.

That pretty much sums it up: there's an actually, but she hides it most of the time.

Here she is, in "normal" street wear, wearing a wig that looks mostly like her real hair did. Note that she rarely looks like this, thus the quotes around "normal"! Did you check out her paintings? The photorealistic ones she does of machines are just amazing. I have a photo of one at my desk so I can make everyone look at them.