snowboarding sushi...

so i am back and safe in columbia after a fun time at sugar hill this weekend on the snowboard. this was my first go at such a venturous sporting event. i was equiped with a burton board generously 'donated' for the day from ken's brother. y'all might not know ken, but he is [i believe] pictured below in this blog sometime back in october during a golfing escapade. well, i would like to say that i strapped into the board, conquerede how to control the stearing, turning, stopping and the like on the bunny hill and then proceeded to demolish in every way each challenge set before my path throughout the day. such was not the case... the demolishing came upon me in the form of mountain clobbering me in the ass and elbow... so much that i feel that my body was basically an ass-bow.
this is because the bunny hill was fully utilized when we got ready and rearing to go... so, it was ken's idea that i should just go to the top and learn on the way down... well, let me tell you i did learn how to get down.. and down.. and down. the first time i tried snowboarding strapped in was down the slope... not something i recommend. straight up balance was ok, but the problem is that i kept picking up so much speed... and not LEARNING HOW TO STOP or TURN IN A CONTROLLED FASHION a priori lead me to picking up lots of speed and finding myself trying to turn at realtively high velocities... this unavoidably disasterous combination allowed me to experience my ass-bow in such a way that i have not experienced before. my virgin bows bruised and my ancient ass assaulted [not in a homosexual manner... just in a homopainful manner], i tried again and again to get down the turning thing.
finally, i was dooped into thinking that i could actually turn as i managed to go from side to side... best with my face up the mountain and not as well with my face down the hillside. i say 'fooloed' because i tried to take a sharp turn which lead to catchin some edge which fully threw me backwards... well, since by this time i was a complete ass-bow disaster, i figured that i should land on someting 'brand-new' and 'untainted' to this point... something soft that could take the fall of a non-graceful rookie... something invaluable to me and others... that's right... [by now i know that april knows what i am talking about]... my head. yep, that soft landing led me to a few moments in time that i now do not remember. so, after arising from my minor concussion [don't worry mom... i'll get a helmet for the future] i decided quasi-wisely that i should be done for the day. april might say that it would be hard to detect the neuances of the affects of this fall on my already-below-normal baseline, i feel some neck soreness the most... BUT I CAN'T WAIT TO GO AGAIN... IT WAS A FREAKIN BLAST!!!!! I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT [annoying molly shannon - character voice].
ahhh... so alas... i begin anesthesiology tomorrow [would have been today, but i had found out where i was supposed to be too late and spent the day at meetings and contacting local buisnesses for our black tie white coat gala] and hopefully it will be an enjoyable time... looking forward to it, am i.
sitting her at starbucks... enjoying some jo with yocum... along with some philisophically psychological conversations about sports... good times... good times.
until next time...
love,
g