The drug test

So last Tuesday I got a phone call from Maria who works in the Pawtucket Personnel office. She called to inform me that I had to go to the Pawtucket Health Care clinic before 8pm Tuesday night to get a drug test. Apparently it is a new rule for the city where all city workers need to get this done. Seeing as I am working at the Pawtucket camp this year, I had to get it done. I have already peed in a cup before so I did not take this to be a big deal, I was wrong to think that. After waiting in the waiting room for a good 45 minutes, they called me to the back. I had to wash my hands, pick a cup out of the bin and then go into the bathroom to do what needed to be done. Before I could go into the bathroom though, I had to leave my bag outside and then they made sure that nothing was in my pockets. Once in the bathroom, I only had five minutes. The toilet bowl water was blue so that you would not be able to dilute your urine and you were not able to flush the toilet. You had to fill the cup up to a certain line which I thought we be no problem but I was wrong. I apparently had not had enough water so it took me forever. It ended up being a little below the line but I didn't have to go any more. I came out of the bathroom and I told the lady who was standing outside the door the whole time that I did not make the line. She said that it might not matter because the urine had to be transferred to a test tube and that was the one that really mattered. It ended up reaching the test tube line so I was all set. I washed my hands and then I had to initial a piece of tape that was used to seal the test tube. I also had to sign a form saying that it was my urine and I did not alter it in any way. The sample was then sent overnight to some random lab somewhere and the lady said that the results would be give to the city in 48 hours. Needless to say, this whole experience was crazy and the whole time I felt like I was in trouble. A word of advice though for any one who has to take a drug test, make sure you drink lots of water.

Martha Bellows and Kayleigh Lagasse: Bird Huntresses

Before I go into the details about the trip to NJ, I need to let everyone know about a most trying incident that happened on Friday. I was home by myself and I was reading in the living room. Suddenly I hear fluttering in the dining room and I look up to see a bird trying to escape. I had no idea what to do so I quickly called my mom who told me that she would not be home for a while so I needed to deal with the problem myself. So armed with nothing, I slowly approached the dining room to find out where the bird went off to. It was pinned between a box and the wall with Cleo the cat on the other side of the box. I scared Cleo away and then I called my friends Kayleigh who lives nearby. She answers her phone thankfully and I ask her what she is up to. She tells me that she is eating lunch and reading. I figure she would oblige to coming over so I explain the whole situation and in response she starts laughing and says that she will be over in a few minutes. While waiting for Kayleigh I went upstairs to change seeing as I was still in my pj's. When I came back downstairs Kayleigh was hear but the bird was no where to be found. I had already closed doors around the house so the bird could only be in 1 of 4 rooms: the kitchen, living room, dining room, and porch. We searched high and low and Kayleigh finally found it in a corner in the porch. We got some gardening gloves so we could try to catch it without contracting a weird disease (Kayleigh is usually prone to this so we had to be extra careful). Kayleigh slowly approached the bird and reached for it when it suddenly started to fly. We both started screaming and I ran out into the backyard. It landed next to the front porch door so I told Kayleigh to simply open the door and let it fly away. She did not listen and tried to grab it again so it started flying around the porch until it flew out the door to the backyard that I had held open. Now that the bird was gone, I had to vacuum a bunch of feathers up from all around the house and wipe out some bird blood that had gotten on the wall and window. How lovely! Kayleigh then left to finish her lunch. I reprimanded the cat but I do not think she really understood what was happening. Cats are crazy.

Foiled!

So I was waiting to get my new laptop and ask Meg how this whole thing works before I started posting, but then while looking at her pictures of Colorado, I noticed that she had already added my name to her list of friends. Silly Meg, she didn't even tell me that she did this. Now I feel foolish for having a blank web page that 5 people have already looked at. How embarrassing! I am positive that Meg did this purposely to expose my lack of computer knowledge to the world. She is so crafty sometimes. One of these days I will show her! So Meg, if you are reading this, I would watch your back because you never know when I will strike. Now that I have officially started this blog, I suppose I should try to put pictures on the site. They are just some old pictures seeing as I am not much of a picture taker. There are some from my trip to Germany, New Hampshire, Princeton, and a few others.