unpauper penalty

i had school today.
it was weird. there were only 5 of us, 6 if you counted the nurse who was just auditing the course (she never got to do any of the role playing). we did a lot of role playing.
it was sort of fun.
the instructor would tell us we had a baby coming and we had to get already and ask her all sorts of questions so we would know what to expect/which equipment to get ready. And then she'd hand us this baby and say ITS LIMP AND BLUE. (that wasnt the only thing wrong with it, it was also missing an arm and its remaining arm tended to fall off). and then we'd practice saving the baby.
sometimes we had to intubate. i couldnt figure out why we had to practice/pretend to intubate this baby (which was funny because when it got to the point where we had to intubate, we'd trade the baby in for just a head with balloons for lungs) since we are not allowed to intubate. and we never actually learned how to intubate (which is why we all intubated the esophagus instead of the trachea, but it was fun playing with the laryngoscope and having the secondary nurse hand you stuff like you were some big shot health professional) but they still asked us all kinds of unfair questions on the written exam about how we would fix the laryngoscope placement if we had too much esophagus or too much tongue. i didnt think that was very fair.
i think we should be able to intubate. what if the baby is delivered before the doctor shows up (or there's twins and the specialized team isnt in from some other town) and we start resuscitation and get to the point of intubation before there's an intubator available? what if?
crazy things tend to happen in small towns with limited, certified staff.

the part of the day that wasnt fun was lunch.
maybe it was because i didnt bring any pink apple pie for lunch.
maybe it was because i tried to make a new friend and she became irrationably angry and was yelling at me about how unfair it is that i can get a larger third of my provincial loans paid off than she can and why isnt there a limit on the reduction so everyone gets the same amount reduced and why is she being penalized for having a smaller loan than i?

uh... isnt a third, a third? and isnt it actually i who is suffering by having a huge loan? as if i chose to owe 10 times more than her. she didnt even seem satisfied with the knowledge that even though i will save a greater amount than her, i will still be paying more because my federal loan is 10 times higher than hers.
it was awful. she was mean. and i couldnt figure out why she was mad at me and why she was mad in the first place (If someone is paying off your loan because you work in the town you grew up in and love and inhabit with your husband, shouldnt you be grateful and maybe even happy? instead of being the lonely spinister in town who owes a ridiculous sum of money?). This is the type of person who votes conservative.

edit: its probably a good thing i didnt bring any pink apple pie because she probably would have been mad at me for that (she had a rice cake sandwich for lunch).