The Long Awaited And Highly Anticipated Next Post

It's 10am Monday morning, and I have just returned from a lovely weekend away, in hospital. I am now officially a human lab rat. Along with 15 or so other guys, this weekend I participated in a clinical trial for this new rhumatoid arthritis drug. They are testing it to see what effect it has with the consumption of food. There are 3 weekend long sessions that we have to participate in. The first, we have the drug in capsule form coming off a fast. The second, we have the drug coming off a fast in liquid form. And third, we have the drug after a high fat meal.
After we have taken the drug, they proceed to suck all the blood out of us to:
a) drink it if they are vampires
b) sacrificially burn it if they are part of the occult
c) play with it if they are really weird
Ok, so maybe they didnt suck all of our blood out...But we did have to give blood a lot. Each session we have to give 16 blood samples. The first samlpe was taken when we took the drug, then one at 3min, 5min, 10min, 15min, 30 min, 1hr, 2hr, 4hr, 8hr, 12hr, 24hr, 48hr, 72hr, 96hr, and lastly at 120hr. And then next Saturday night I go in and do it all again. When we were not giving blood , we could pretty much do whatever we wanted to. We had to stay in the building, and our diets are restricted to whatever they give us, but besides that, we had free reign. There is a pool table there, a couple of tv rooms, an XBox, 3 computers, and everything else that you would normally find in a house. It's probably the easiest money ive ever made. They are paying us around $2700 each for the 3 weekends. Not bad for only having to give a little blood. Oh, and theres that little third arm that im growing out of my head, but that comes in really handy when both my hands are busy and I get an itch on my head.
Everything else is just floating along fairly easily. Dad is pretty much fully recovered from his operation, so after next weekend he will be taking over all the cleaning again. That means that i wont have to get up at 4am, and ill be able to go get a job. Im looking forward to that. And with a fairly regular schedule, I might even be able to start going to this church that runs the Sunday night Harp and Bowl set too.
There is an Internship here that I have been considering doing next year, and I am just waiting to hear back from them some more about that. I do hope that works out, cause I would like to do that. I feel like I would benefit from some study, but I dont want to go back to college, cause I dont want to be stuck into anything for 4 years. So we'll see where this goes.
Thanksgiving was nice. Australians dont really celebrate Thanksgiving, most dont even really know what it is besides an American holiday. But for the last 6 or so years my family has celebrated Thanksgiving. We just like the whole concept of it, and it's a great excuse to have friends over to share with too. So we had about 12 people over, ate a big meal, talked and caught up, then shared all the things that we were thankful for from the last year. It was good to see everyone, most who I hadnt see yet since being back, and a blessing to share with eachother.
I have seen Steph twice since being back, and neither time has gone very well. It's not that either time was bad, but rather just that they were both kind of disappointing . It seems like she has changed so much, even in the 1 year that I havent seen her. There just doesnt seem to be any passion in her any more. She used to be so full of life and energy and passion, and thats what drew me to her, but it seems like it has all gone. I have no idea why, but it really saddens me. And now we are on totally different paths. I knew that we werent going to get back together, but now im not even sure if we can be friends. Its not that we hate eachother or anything like that, but whats the point of being friends if it is just going to be shallow and surface stuff. I want, I need to go deep, and I just dont want to waste time around people doing shallow things.
Well, Dad just got home, so I need to fill him in on the weekend. Love youse all!