Status Update

It's been a while. School has been busy, but fun. Last week I was on ambulatory rotation, where we go out to the local farms and deal with REAL LIVE animals. This week it was goats and sheep. Our group was amazingly efficient. We knocked out quick physicals on 57 goats in a few hours. Goats are fun. Next week is surgery. I'm a tad nervous about that. I need to practice my sutures again, and everyone said anesthesia has been really stressful. Here's hoping things go well.

On the WoW front, I've stepped back (yet again, but this time for good I think) from my guild's heroic raiding group. I had tried only stepping in as a healer if they were short, but even that was leaving me too frustrated and mad at people. So only heroic pugs for me, and the normal raid where I can tell people to shut up and keep vent clear for calls during boss fights.

I do feel bad when I think about last night's normal raid. I was incredibly tired, and had spent the day at Sandals, an all inclusive resort. So I may have been a bit tipsy and not as calm as I usually am. I snapped at a few people in vent for talking while we needed to call stuff out. But I swear to god some days I really want to take an air horn to vent to get people to be quiet and listen. You can type in chat about why you died during the boss fight, I don't need to hear it in vent while the rest of us are still fighting.

Now I know why I've heard some people say raid leading brings out the angry in them. It is so nice to step back and pug with people I don't feel responsible for, I don't need to watch or offer advice. I can sit back and heal. I think I've done a decent job with the casual group. We're not perfect, and I think I need to go over the rules again. I took the gems/enchants required bit out of the calendar comment because I wanted to put some other stuff in but at a quick glance that needs to be gone over again.

I always feel like good communication of expectations and rules makes things run so much smoother, but for the casual run I don't want to overwhelm people. Somewhere, written when I was incredibly frustrated with the last raid I was a part of before this guild, I have written up my hypothetical raid rules. It takes about ten minutes, if I were to speak it out loud. But it is as comprehensive as I can make it and lays out exactly what I would expect of anyone are I to lead a progression raid.

I really wish we had a website as well as a Facebook page so I could post a truncated version for rules for the normal raid. Things like vent. Because I had someone who wasn't in vent the last 2 weeks who told me it wasn't in the calendar note. Apparently it wasn't clear the first time they came when I whispered them after the raid apologizing for not making sure they were in vent because I wasn't used to new people not having the vent info, that they needed to be in vent. And spamming the info at the start of the raid wasn't a clear enough sign. Even though I doubt people would read it, I could post rules somewhere and then I wouldn't feel like I have to go check up behind everyone to makes sure they know what I want them to do for preparation. I could just refer them to the post and remove people who don't listen. Oh well, a girl can dream.

Here's hoping I can get the last Darkmoon Bunny I need for a friend this week. But since I got really super lucky getting the Voidtalon mount, I don't know what I'll camp next. Happy Easter everyone!