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today, i stuck myself with a butterfly needle during my phlebotomy class. I am, so far, the only one who has made that mistake. My instructor says it's common, and her assistant shared how she had stuck herself many times after their needle supplier altered their design a few years ago. So, I'm not as shaken about this mistake as I thought I would be.

I have my nursing assistant refresher course tomorrow. I am a little nervous about that because even though I've been working as an assistant for years, it's been in an in-home setting, so I'm a bit rusty on procedures that rarely happen in the home like bedpans and changing sheets with a person in the bed. But then, forgetting these things is why I'm going to the course in the first place so I should calm down...

i am....not satisfied, but hopeful with last night's election results. Truth be told, almost a month ago I was convinced that nothing would change; that the House wouldn't flip, because taking 23 seats in a single, midterm election sounded impossible; that turnout would be up, moderately compared to traditional mid-term election numbers, but that apathy, pessimism, and blatant and concentrated voter suppression would keep those gains mediocre at best. So, having no faith in a Blue wave at all, I'm deeply inspired by all the wonderful things that happened last night. There will be over one hundred women in the House of Representatives! (Okay, not all of them are Democrat... :/) Michigan has a matriarchy! It's also heartening to see that people have not given up just because the election was not the overwhelming Democratic victory many were hoping for. I thought, if there's any setback at all, people would be convinced that their vote doesn't matter, so they would just go back to ignoring elections again...I am glad to see that many are realizing the grind involved in changing how government works. It's been ignored so long, and the institutional damage began long before Trump took office.