Well, I went to my first wood shop class tonight. All was going well until I stepped out to use the restroom.

The usual restroom in the shop was locked and we couldn’t get in, since the high school apparently can’t figure out how to get a key to the instructor. The backup restroom in the shop office was out of order, since apparently nobody has the sense to keep a toilet plunger nearby, so we had to go out to use the one in the student commons.

Due to me misunderstanding the directions, I went outside and promptly tripped over a concrete block in the parking lot, since the security lighting had broken down (noticing a trend here?) and I couldn’t see shit. I scraped up my hand good, and my knee somewhat, gave my joints a good beating in the process, and got covered in shit since it was wet and rainy. I ended up going home early.

Today the elbow and knee that I landed on are good and sore, so I called in sick to work, and made an appointment to see the Dr. this morning to get checked out on general principles.

As for the class itself, the first day was mainly watching safety videos about the equipment, and briefly going over our first project (a jewellery box). I still need to watch the table saw video (the one we were about to start before I stepped out).