i still blush!!

ok, i thought i had mastered the "control-my-blushing" technique by telling myself to cool down, but tonight i blushed like i've never before!! at least not for the past few years! ={

so radu offered to take me to bridgeport hospital for a lab session on "how to scrub in for surgery" that supposedly takes 2h. yeah, i also wondered how scrubbin' in can take 2h, but it did! anyhow, i said i could get a ride with classmates, but he said he was free and could take me, and would wait for me. i assumed he'd wait for me outside in his car...but no! he came inside! while all my girlie classmates were sitting around in the lounge, gossiping as always. and he walked right over to me, and began talking to me, giving me his ipod (he just got one, 40gb) to listen. of course it got quiet as everyone wondered who this "stranger" was randoming talking ot me at a hospital 30 min from yale! i dunno why, but i felt the heat rising...face flushed...arrrggh!! and yea, so i was pestered with questions after our class left the lounge to go into surgery rooms. only 3 of my closer classmates know, and i guess half the class now knows too! i just felt bad cuz i'm sure radu saw me blush, and prob thinks i'm embarassed to be seen around him! oh well =P.

on some funnier notes, scrubbing in was soooo funny! with a group of silly girls, you can only imagine. took us 2.5h (poor radu, at least he's patient), but lotsa good laughs! i dunno if you will find any of it funny since you kinda have to be there, but i sure did!
1) this girl in my class has HUGE hair. you have to wear this blue "showercap-like" thing to keep hair out of face, and when she put it on, she looked exactly like Marge Simpson! so the doc kept calling her marge all night--it was hilarious!!
2) they let us borrow scrubs that were obviously too big for us. one thin girl had to put on large scrubs, and the waist was literally 3x her's! so when she pulled the drawstrings, she immediately had a huge "poof" on the front...and of course with 10 girls in the locker room, we had to laugh at that one and crack bad jokes.
3) the special surgical lights hanging from the ceiling need to have covers placed on the handle so they are kept sterile. the handle comes off the middle of the lighting system like a stick...and you put on a plastic green cover that they like to call "condom". of course we were asked to practice putting these on the lamps, and it's not as easy to keep it on! that was quite funny too!
4) roxanne, the tiniest girl in our class (prob 90#), was nearly knocked off her feet when the surgical doors (it's like those kitchen door that swing back and forth so that you "back into it" to open and not use your hands to touch anything) back-swung and hit her! it was sooo funny.

so we scrubbed 2x--it's soooo complicated. we have to clean underneath our nails, wash at least 5 min (hospital requirements) for first scrubbing (my arms hurt from the bristles! all red!), then gown up all properly without touching anything. it's crazy--putting on gloves, booties, hat, scrubs, then the outer gown, and learning the million tools. i can't believe i'll be in surgery in just two months, starting late july! eep!!