Full day

Where to begin…well, to start the day off, Carrie had a seizure while I was at breakfast and hit her head, twice I’m guessing.  First she hit her eyebrow on the counter, giving herself a bone bruise and goose egg.  Then she hit her head on the floor.  She has a nice concussion now.  The hotel was quite nice and paid for her cab to the ER though, since it happened on their property.  It wasn’t their fault, but it was still nice.  We have no idea why she’s having seizures, as her medicine level is where it belongs.  Hopefully the epilepsy center will see her and figure it out.

Today was another day of training academy.  We learned a bit about space physiology and then station stuff.  Even though I’ve made it through much of my fam (familiarization) manual I found it more interesting than the other stuff because it’s helping me learn the multitude of things expected of me.  We got to ask a lot of questions, and learned how few answers there are. lol

In the afternoon we watched the discovery channel’s special on the Columbia disaster.  There’s something a bit eerie seeing and hearing the last communications we had with them before they broke up.  Tomorrow morning we’ll go over it more in depth with someone who trained the crew.  I don’t expect that to be the easiest class.

The last part of the day was a tour of mission control.  We got to go into the Apollo mission control and sit down.  It was funny because a tour was in the tourist area in the back.  I bet they were jealous. ;-)  I took a few pictures of the console.  It’s a trip to be in there.  We also got to visit the bat cave, which is the projection room.  After that we visited FCR 1, which is the ISS mission control.  There I saw Shannon Lucid signing off her role as CAPCOM as the ISS crew had started their sleep cycle.  So that was cool, even if I wasn’t close enough to say hello.  We also stopped by the other flight control rooms being used for shuttle/hubble sims for the upcoming mission.  All in all, an interesting tour.

I don’t remember what we’re doing tomorrow honestly.  Too tired.  I’ve been refreshing my memory regarding my graduate thesis so I could rerun some points for my advisor.  He’s writing the paper for publication.  I hope I am giving him the right numbers.  I’ll have to ask him if he wants a graph or not.  But I have to get to bed asap so it’ll have to wait until tomorrow.

You know, I’m super busy, and I’m in tons of classes, but I love my job!  And I figured out I will be training astronauts always or the majority of the time because the class I’m assigned to is for crew only, at least on the upcoming schedule.  Everyone else takes it online.  How awesome/intimidating!  lol