living in moab, it is a curious thing so far.
i'm currently taking a wilderness first responder course so that i can get my raft guide license, which in turn will allow me to spend the summer working as a raft guide on the colorado and green rivers.
the first responder course has been very interesting so far. interesting types of people spend their summers as i do. and a good variety of them are represented in my course.
for instance, this morning we started the section on poisoning. in it is included drug-caused poisonings. when the instructor (a med-student from the university of utah) began talking about mushrooms, he was quickly interrupted by an older student, who began describing in much detail the differences between the mushrooms show in the slideshow. he said which were poisonous, which were hallucinogenic, which were edible.
then there were ticks.
the first image was of a man pulling down the edge of his underwear to show a tick embedded in his hip. that elicited the response, "free beer if you show your ticks," and "it's rough when you get them on your boys."
more interesting info: according to the med-student, normal bowel-movement range from once every 3 days to 3 times a day. so if you're going 4 times a day, that's too much.
and of course, if you have a bloody nose that just won't stop, you can use an item called a rhino-pack, which can be used to plug a nose and absorb blood. if you don't for some reason want to buy one of these over-priced items, their is an identical item that sells for much cheaper. they're called tampons.
btw, i've got a pretty good tan on my arms.
