Greetings, readers. Sorry for not updating very frequently. I have about 11 weeks of school left this year and those 11 weeks consist of pretty much the same amount or perhaps more work than the 29 weeks that came before them. So basically I am swamped and you shouldn't expect to hear from me too often. But don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you, and I am still alive.

I didn't want to leak the news on this prank I pulled simply because it was on one of my readers, but the cat is out of the bag now, so I can talk about it. My friend Rob goes to law school in New York. I wanted to send him a b-day present last month, and one day while perusing the local GameStop, I saw a copy of the Olsen twins' movie New York Minute sitting on the shelves. So I bought it, which was extremely awkward. Along with the movie, I found a picture I had on my computer of Rob hanging out with the Olsen twins and put it in the DVD case along with the movie:I put it in an envelope and on the return address, I put "NYC Welcoming Committee", hoping that he would see that the postmark was actually from Chicago and he would be able to use this system I like to call the "Process of Elimination" to determine that who and where it came from. However, he didn't. And he's going to be a lawyer. Anyway, after waiting a week and a half after I sent it, I finally asked Rob if he had received it. Somehow, a friend of his who only goes by the cryptic name "BK" convinced him that it was actually from him. The nerve!

Rob recently replied via e-mail. His response is so moronic I'm not even going to post it here. It looks worse than the Britney sans hair pictures. Instead, I'll make my public reply:


This may not make a whole lot of sense to some of you, but I'll tell you Rob will probably feel pretty enraged when he comes across this. Rob, as we say in the basketball community, the ball is "in your court".

Also, readers, I would hate to disappoint you without a list of the weird things I'm thinking when I wake up in the morning for February 2007:

February 1, 2007 - "Yeah, like a soldier."
February 4, 2007 - "Oh God. Tell me you have mechanoreceptors."
February 5, 2007 - "I was talking to Billy Joel about some kind of internship."
February 7, 2007 - "Well then. You were very far from the action, weren't you?"
February 8, 2007 - "I don't know why someone would wear that."
February 10, 2007 - "Damn, the shellacking is pretty good."
February 20, 2007 - "How is there not organized music in there?"
February 21, 2007 - "You got a bag for the dog...that's pretty cool."
February 22, 2007 - "Brother Rich is the best."
February 23, 2007 - "And so we're kinda like partners...get it?"
February 26, 2007 - "Weighting, lifting, skiing, jumping. The four forms of motion."
February 28, 2007 - "Here's a list of people from the movie that you can look up on Myspace."

Listening To: Less Than Jake - The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out
With stronger drinks and longer lines
It's not that big a surprise
That you're feeling more dead than alive.

So the other night, my brother Max (remember, he was banned from the blog a few months ago) went to see Cake in Berkeley. It was a pretty good show. The opener, Honeycut, reminded me of a cross between OK Go and Beck. Beck because of how the lead singer danced and OK Go because when they had finished their first song, I was like "Ok, go....off the stage." But seriously, they were alright. Back to the dancing singer, I think the band would've been a lot more boring if you were just listening and not watching because the music wasn't all that great.

Cake was really good though. John McCrea said they never play with a setlist, they just decide what songs to play as they go along, so I'm going to tell you the songs they played in chronological order of when they were recorded...simply because I don't remember the order they were played in:

Comanche, Haze of Love, Rock 'N Roll Lifestyle, Frank Sinatra, The Distance, Stickshifts and Safetybelts, Mexico, Never There, Shadow Stabbing, Short Skirt/Long Jacket, Comfort Eagle, Love You Madly, Wheels, The Guitar Man.

They ended with a Black Sabbath cover, but I'm not sure what the name of the song was.


Listening To: The Arcade Fire - My Body is a Cage
I'm living in an age
Whose name I don't know
Though the fear keeps me moving
Still my heart beats so slow

Finally done with my anatomy finals! It feels nice to finally be done with that. I still have another exam this week in Immunology, but in comparison it will be a treat to study for. In fact, I might not even start until tomorrow! Going back to Mill Valley on Thursday for "Spring Break". Obviously it isn't spring, but since it's currently 4 degrees and -16 degrees with the wind chill factor here in Chicago and the high in Mill Valley on Thursday is 60 degrees, this will feel like it's Summer Break.

The school got my class a few hours of free bowling last night in celebration of being done with Clinical Anatomy. At least, theoretically done with it. I'm sure there will be some people who will have to retake the class over the summer. I went into the lab practical exam needing a 45% to just pass the class, so I think I made out all right. Anyway I'm just taking it easy today, maybe play that 360 I got for my birthday for like the 3rd time since I've been back in Chicago.

Here's the list of things I was thinking about when I woke up for January '07. Again, if you're a new reader here, read back a few pages to find out what the hell is going on here:

January 5, 2007 - "As a doctor, I wouldn't do that."
January 7, 2007 - "Well, that's preggers for ya."
January 8, 2007 - "I'll tell you what I paid for it! 10 bucks! 3 cheaper dollars! I'm raping them!"
January 10, 2007 - "Seemed like he had his spine right there next to him."
January 13, 2007 - "I was working at a Whole Foods or some kind of fishery."
January 19, 2007 - "You mean your anatomical reasons, then?"
January 20, 2007 - "I don't just recite things."
January 21, 2007 - "When you're in prison, why wouldn't you kill the guards?"
January 23, 2007 - "They'll just take it from infected tissue then."
January 27, 2007 - "Oh you won't see the liver."
January 29, 2007 - "This is more like a knock and you're like 'Uhhh I can't explain it.'"
January 30, 2007 - "Those are technical loci."
January 31, 2007 - "It's the design muscle!"

I think it's funny how as it gets later in the month and closer to my anatomy finals, they become more and more anatomy-oriented. Pretty weird.

Listening To: The Get Up Kids - I'm a Loner, Dottie, A Rebel.
One night
Doesn't mean the rest of my life.
If I go, it's not impossible.
But possible is probably wrong.

Well, my first anatomy test is done with. Still have the lab practical tomorrow. The exam today wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but it was still pretty difficult.

More importantly, I hope you have heard about the bomb scare that was involved in the promotion of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie that is coming out soon (March? I think). Basically on the show there are these characters that are from the inner core of the Moon (which according to them is an actual planet and Earth is the moon, but that would belittle the name of the moon, which is...the moon) who are essentially enemies of the Aqua Teens and come from the moon. They like to steal things, watch porn and flip the bird. For promotion of the movie, circuit boards wrapped with black tape had LED lights on them that when turned on present a picture of either Ignignot or Err flipping the bird. Apparently a lot of people thought they were bombs, but they really weren't anything but an awesome idea for promotions. I think if I were a terrorist organization and wanted to use an ATHF symbol for my logo, it would definitely be the Mooninites.

The guys responsible for these devices have been fined or charged or something ridiculous for it are apparently performance artists, not the people responsible for the TV show. They spoke to the press today about what they did, and I think it's probably one of the best press conferences I have seen lately.



My favorite quote: "Again, not a hair question."

Guess you'll just have to watch to find out what that means!

Listening To: Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat.