Friday: counseling skills training. We did a couple role plays, and I started getting into it. I may not be able to summon greater elementals as a drugged out barebacking fiend worried about his std status, but one could convincingly argue that it’s more of a personality stretch for me.
Afterwards, Ro and I picked up
Saturday, I made some bread from scratch, worked with Ro at the laudromat whilst our laundries spun. Came back home, whipped some of the bread into bread pudding, prepared a tomato based pasta sauce with spinach, zucchini & mushroom with some penne, and tossed a salad together.
Up early on sunday for advanced topics training (optional) the final training of the season. Yay. Involved a urethral swab. MegaBOO. It _still_ hurts when I pee. And I still get a little blood out when I urinate. Like 9 hours later. Fortunately, it’s feeling not-as-bad now. Never again. Urine tests, or I’ll just live in ignorance. But, I got a free lunch for sticking my swab in farthest. (so not worth it)
Kinda meant to go to political discussion group in rockridge. Didn’t get around to it. Got sucked into medic stuff. Enh, oh well. Mostly female (they commented that I would bring some welcome testosterone. Ummmm…), and they sound more chatty than activist. I wanna _do_ stuff.
One of the medics passed the 2,500 clients seen mark. He took the rest of us out to a tasty chinese dinner. Biked home. Another medic spontaneously invited me out to see the bay area from atop the oakland hills. Very pretty view. Nice conversation. Would have liked to have held medic, but didn’t want to send wrong signals, besides, would have been hard to do so in vehicle.
Home now, sleep soon. Work early tomorrow, then date in afternoon. Wall climbing and south indian fare. Here’s hopin 😉