this is where the problems decided to begin... When you watch movies at a movie theater it's not popping in a DVD and someone pushing play, it's a little more complicated than that. The movie is shipped to the paramount a few days before the movie is suppose to play; it comes in big orange or gray cans. 
In the cans are reels, which have film wrapped around them.
They are then taped together and put onto a platter. 
From this platter they are fed out through the projector and out onto another platter. It seems like a complex system but once you get the hang of it it's not that bad. Well in making the movie it must go is a specific order, the film must face a certain direction and be put in a the order the movie plays. Well Marmaduke had a problem. It's 2nd to last reel (generally the climax of the movie) was put in backwards, the end of the movie was playing before the beginning, to make it better the picture was upside down and had no sound. At the Paramount 5 this would be an inconvenient 20-30 minute fix because of the equipment available there, but the night this happened I was at the Teton Vu Drive-in. The only equipment I had was the contraption that could tape the movie back together. I could go into immense detail about how the movie had to be fixed but no one but projectionists would be able to understand and empathize with me. But I will tell you that to fix the movie it took 4 hours, we canceled the movie and started the other one. After fixing Marmaduke it had to be brought to the Paramount and preview to make sure we had put it back together right. Talk about a late night....I was lucky and was able to get home and in bed by 3 am because I convinced a co-worked to stay up and watch it. I generally would have stayed and been a good manager and watched it but I had to be at a friends' apartment at 7:30 am. We were going to Lagoon!!
I was a little excited to go, there were 9 of us who decided to go on this day trip, and I got so sunburnt in the process. My chest was bright cherry red the next day but it was completely worth it. I even built up the courage to go on the Sky Coaster, it is the giant swing
Only two of us were brave enough to go on it.
This is Me and Megann, she promised me that she would go on this scary ride with me only if I pulled the rip cord, that was my down fall. Once they strap you into the harness your nerves start to run, you wonder if this contraption is actually safe....swoosh! The floor drops out from under you as they drop you from your vertical standing position to an horizontal dangling position 3 ft. above the ground. The rope tugs and you are slowly lifted up...up...up...and up. About the time you start to feel you are just getting too high you look up and realize you are only half way there. Finally you reach the top, there isn't a feeling like it...Pure terror...excitement...anxiety...you wonder how long they are gonna keep you waiting up there, it feels like eternity until you hear the golden words over a speaker, "OK fliers on the count of 3 pull the rip cord and fly, 1...2...3..fly." I freeze for a second, ripcord in hand I pull, nothing happens, I had pulled the cord to the side instead of directly out. I reposition and try again, I pull out and CHINK. The noise of the cord letting free of the claps and two bodies falling through the air, we fall for what feels like 30 seconds until the resistance of the safety cord is felt. From there was swing back and forth, stretching across part of the park, screaming like maniacs. The rush of adrenalin floated through our bodies, this euphoric feeling lasts for the rest of the day. There is nothing like free falling 150 ft, for an extra $15 extra bucks. It is worth it every time and I recommend it for everyone.Back to school, every day in school just floats through, more assignments are piled on and more hours at the library pile up. Until today something exciting happened. Today is Wednesday, and on Wednesdays I have Lab for my Nursing 100 class. Up until now I have only felt like a CNA in the hospital setting because all we can do is hygiene care. Today in Lab we learned how to give shots!
I was so excited to be able to finally feel like a nurse. We learned Intradermal, Subcutaneous, and Intramuscular shots, but only practiced the Intramuscular shots on each other;
my partner and I chose, along with most of the class, the ventrogluteal muscle, the back hip. The needle wasn't that big but today was the day I felt I was becoming a true nurse, it was exciting giving my first shot and I hope I didn't hurt my partner. She did an excellent job and I have no pain from the shot. We also did something odd, we had to learn how to give Intradermal shots in case we ever need to give a TB test. To practice this one of our awesome instructors, Sister Killian, pulled out several sawed off pig's feet our of the fridge. We practiced injecting pig's feet for 20 minutes, I hope my future patients don't have skin like it did because I was afraid of the needle breaking off.
These past few days have surely been eventful and because I waited too long to blog they have probably lost some of their luster but I will keep trying to get postings up in a good time.
