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| Over the log!! |
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| Dave was my awesome photographer while I was running. He would have run it too but he had a broken knee. Dave- you the man! I wish you'd come to Guam! Actually I don't think you'd like it here, but still. I miss hanging out. :( |
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| Rope challenge, made it all the way across. |
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| Final slide to victory! |
This was the mud run I did in Pensacola back in October of last year. It was really fun and all my Pensacola peeps should go this year.
Okay, on to the funny stories of the week. So I had this letter that I was printing and the printers are scattered over the building. I don't have one in my office. So I printed, went to the printer and it wasn't there. I printed again, went to the printer and it wasn't there. But this guy who worked in the same office as the printer turned a little red and said, "Uh, ma'am are you trying to print a word document?" I said yes. He then apologized and said he though it was what he was trying to print and kept shredding the document. Apparently we were hitting print at the same time, but he thought the wrong thing kept printing, so he would shred it. I went back to print it a third time and this time (there was actually a yeoman doing the printing and the yeoman did this) we printed a page that said "DON'T SHRED THE NEXT PAGE!!!" Then printed the letter. When I went to get the letter a third time, the guy in the office was laughing and his face was red as he handed me the letter.
Another funny thing that happened is we have a bunch of people who are claiming they are not adjusting well to the rigors of life and need to see a psychologist so they don't have to work. We are trying to figure out what to do with them and how to separate those who really are struggling from those who are faking. So I called the hospital psychologist assigned to us and had a really great talk about how he diagnoses and what he does to make sure someone has a condition versus someone who is just making stuff up. At the end I got his phone number in case I needed to call him back.
The next day he was in the building meeting with our regular doc and some others to discuss this same issue. Regular doc invites me to the meeting because he thought it would be helpful if I were there. Later on, regular doc comes back and says, just kidding, the psychologist doesn't want you there because he says that lawyers and psychologists usually see things differently and he doesn't want you interfering. So I'm all like "wait, wait, wait... soooo, me and this guy have a great conversation yesterday and we're developing synergy and he even gives me his phone number to call him back and now you're saying that he doesn't want to see me? Well fine- I thought we had something, but I guess not." Doc just looks at me and says, "I hate being the middle man."
Last funny story isn't mine, but I'm still telling it. I went golfing with Doc, PAO, and Doc 2. Doc 2 is a funny guy that works on one of the ships. He says he keeps his job interesting by making his patients laugh. So he went in to this appointment this week and they patient says, "I think I have pneumonia." Doc 2 says his eyes got real big and he says "really, you really think so?" all serious. He gets his stethoscope and puts on the man's chest and then jumped back and looked at the guy in shock. Patient says "what? What is it?" Doc 2 says, "oh my gosh I haven't seen anything like this since med school. I need a second opinion." Doc 2 goes into the hallway and grabs a corpsman and says to the corpsman, " go listen to this guy's chest and pretend it's really serious. Corpsman comes in, puts stethoscope on chest, turns to Doc 2 and says "Wow, that's serious." The patient is then really all like, "what, what, oh my gosh, what's going on? Do I have pneumonia?" Doc 2's just all like, "no, a head cold, go take some sudafed and come back on Monday."
