Battle Scars

You may notice I've been mostly posting about culinary school but honestly that's about all there is going on right now.  I think I've finally fallen into some semblance of routine.

Speaking of routine, I'm starting to develop a reputation in class for my routinely blue-bandaged hands.  In the food industry, we are required to wear bright blue band-aids.  I will give you ten seconds to figure out why this would be the case.

10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

Did you figure it out?  I know, I'm kind of disturbed, too.

We wear bright blue bandaids because the color stands out from the food we are preparing (there's not a lot of bright blue food out there).  So if a bandaid were to fall off (God forbid), it would not escape notice.  

And apparently it does its job of being conspicuous as I have had plenty of people commenting on the fact that I always seem to be donning one of these blue beauties.  

How about a visual?

Usually students find themselves wearing blue bandaids the first week or two and then it tapers off.  But I guess I've been rather consistent.  I swear, I'm not a total klutz with a knife, it just tends to happen when I'm in a hurry (usually deboning meat or fish).  I just hope my poor battered hands make it through the rest of the year.  At least I will have plenty of battle scars to show off in the end.

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