Huh.

Have been entering customer satisfaction surveys for our First Aid and CPR courses into Excel. Front side of the form asks what course you took, some questions about why you took it, and then your level of satisfaction with various aspects. Back side asks more satisfaction questions and then a bunch of demographic questions incl. race. The race question reads:

You consider yourself to be (FILL ONLY ONE):

- Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
- White
- Black or African American
- Asian
- Native Hawaiian or other Paciric Islander
- American Indian or Alaska Native
- Two or more races
- Other (Which?)

Many people didn't answer that question. That's fine. It's just for demographic purposes. What made me scratch my head a bit was:

- One person checked off 'Other' and wrote "Human" in the blank
- One person scratched out 'White' and wrote 'Caucasian' next to that option
- And one person scratched out 'Black or African American' and wrote "Brother" next to that option.

Like I said, huh.

Bad news good news

Bad news: I am not going to the city tonight after all. Neither am I going to be able to audition for Steve Irwin in person on November 15th.

Good news: this is because I just got the call. I am going to California to work as a Disaster Computer Operations specialist on the California wildfires. Most likely I'll be operating out of the San Diego chapter for three weeks, as the computer people are nearly always assigned to job headquarters. Tonight I must do laundry and clean up my room as much as humanly possible, hence no parade. Ah, well. I can deal.

So who's up for a fecking long bus ride to see me?