renewingable...

well... trying to update on the happings here in kc... hmmmm...
three works i suppose
work
working out
well... not entirely true, but that is what it feels like someitmes. i can't wait for the tour de france to be over, which will free up my nights. i have been a fan and watched it for about the past 10 years now. which brings me to one of the items on my 'checklist'... cycling.
it would be nice to get a starter road bike one of these days in attempts to begin training for some triathlons and such. when i moved here to kc, i checked out what they had available as far as the triathlon scene goes... and behold, they have, not only triathlons, but biathlons as well [sweet!]. this is exciting for me since i swim almost as well as a chicken towing an anvil... almost. nevertheless, my aquatic deficiencies aside, i think it would be a good sporting venue to get involved with. i suppose that i would then have to get my running mileage up as well as getting a bike and such. but, i have said in the past that once i hit 30ish [3.25 yrs away] i would probably do more endurance exercise than the ballistic things i do these days. i guess that the reason i still do those ballistic track-type exercises is because i am still seeing improvements in my speed, jumping ability, weight training... and so on.
anywho... thank you tour de france for giving me the anual motivation to sit my kiester on a narrow, barely-padded seat, hardly larger that the space between my cheeks... and sit upon that for mile after grueling mile in shorts that hug the lines of my upper legs as tightly as michael moore embraces big macs.
anywho... as far as that enduro-pursuit goes, i got my mileage up about a month ago, but have since lifted every day for the past 3 weeks or so. i hate that... i can't see to decide. it is like i wind up half-assing lifting and running because i desire to do both so bad, but don't have time to adequately pursue both.
anywho... my workout frustrations aside... and i am left to my 'list'.
i have also spent a little bit of time lately practicing on my unicycle... i say 'on'... but i most assuredly have spent most of my 'practice time' off of the darn thing. go figure....
let's see... what else on the 'list' have i been invlving myself with lately.
i have been practicing writing with my left hand... for some reason i desire to be able to write fluently with my left hand to the point that it would be almost indistinguishable from my right... i give myself a few years for this task as i am in no rush and it is almost a foolish pursuit of sorts anyhow.
what else... hmmmm...
there is so much... i think i just need to write this list down... but that would actually make me accountalbe for it... ahhhhh.
well... as far as other things going on... this past weekend/early this week i let my match-buddy james crash at my place while he was closing on his house. it looks like a hell of a starter house if you ask me... completely awesome.... more like a mansion really. congrats james... congrats...
and james and myself have been playing a good bit of basketball as well. the one on one has been challenging, but unfortunately for us, there seems to be a lack of interest in basketball or something at the fitness center as hardly anyone plays and we can't really find anyone for 2 on 2 even. i guess we'll just have to keep on keepin on with the mano y mano... but his jump shot is killer and i don't know if i can take much more! haha

so, anywho... i suppose this wasn't much of an update... i have stories... plenty of stories thus far, but i suppose i will either save stuff for a later date or tell anyone else who decides they want to know on a more individualistic bases.

anywho... have a wonderful splendidness,
love to all,
g

detracted distraction...

a fender-bender frame
a tarnished chain
dull-toothed gears
may never roll again
exhaled rubber loops
exhausted from the strain
barely noticable shape to still remain
patient
sitting silent
creaking no more
weightless under no load
molesting intimate miles with a scorching road
patient
no complaint
punishment in silent spoken stride
quiescent ride
scaling every mountainside
supported and tuned
day and night
restful fury
the beast now tamed with a matted metal rod
perched on the ground
used
for now
for good
for what

wenkebach...

for those of you that read these silly ramblings of a chaotic mind foating in the abyss of this etherial reality... i thougt that this was a pretty creative spoof of jt's 'sexy back'...
check it out...!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxJJ2DBPiQ

love to all,
g

even better...

thank you mr. officer a-hole for the 160 ticket when all that was needed was a warning or a question regarding awareness or realization... that's right... i just got a $160 ticket for not having my head lights on at early dusk. f'in redic when i live in an area of town where there are multiple shootings each night, various kidnappings from within a mile that plaster the news each night, et cetera et cetera... glad to see where the man power is focused.
AHC pulled me over and when he came to the window i turned my lights on and he just asked for my license and insurance... if he were nice or reasonable he could have just said 'don't forget to turn your lights on'.
'F' i am so pissed right now...
so 'F'in pissed...
love to all minus AHC,
-g

1st Day...

So, today was my first day as the lowly intern. Interns seem to fall down to that bottom rung on the ladder of residency... back to the bottom yet again, but with some responsibility this time. Not that I can truly complain, today, because it was not a difficuly day... well... it never is difficult to act like a chicken without its head... you just run around flippantly trying to 'get your bearings' on the surroundings as well as how to operate the 'new' computer system.. which is like the vital life-line to the resident. it's a good thing that life-line is so very unfamiliar to me. fumbling with new access codes that could be it's own mini-book... novella if you will... trying to remember which goes with what and what goes with whatnot. a mountain of newness to become accustomed to.
voondebar [i am going for phonetics here]!
well... so i am at a place for less than a week and already have been pointed out as a possible 'trouble maker'... great... fantastic... but let me explain.
so the residency coordinator and chief resident each let me know that the lady from gme [graduate medical education] had called complaining about me during one of the orientation days. apparently during one of the sessions i had a maxim magazine out and was reading through it. although this probably, initially, doesn't look well for me... it is true, and actually explainable. first of all, the issue wan't that good, but it was meant to fill a time. you see, i had taken care of a few things [to be done in orientation] ahead of time... and the lady [perhaps now jokingly] told me to do something else to fill my time. when i saw this space on the schedule i reached for the maxim... and the rest is history. oh, well... time to be a good boy for now as far as that goes. besides... at least i was awake and trying to listen... moren than i can say for half of the attendants there, but unfortunately i don't think that the people in the back analyzing that type of behavior could tell who was sleeping, since i doubt so many complaints were filed.
anywho... after this and such the other interesting of note that i wanted to jot down was the first perscription that i dispenced as a doctor...
april, you will love this...
ketoconazole... yep... tinea for a pt. in clinic today. it felt weird to sign on that, which struck me awkwardly. alas, however the day was relatively responsibility free for me, but i can see how things will pick up. there was only 1 call today and the 4th year took it as it was a ed nothing. or at least nothing could be done anyway. not that it wasn't anything... or worth going... since i wish i would have gone and gotten the experience.
saw some interesting things in clinic... pt. with a brachial plexopathy and extensive lower arm/hand grafting d/t getting his hand caught in a conveyor belt and suffering subsequent burns... a guy with a complex boxer's fx that extended superiorly and became intraarticular... a boy with a bilateral rhizotomy performed for spasticity... a guy with multiply head surgeries s/p leiomyosarcoma removal on his vertex which invaded the parietal bone, where the cancer was removed, bone was cut superiorly and then moved back to help cover the defect and the healthy calvarium was covered with skin graft... what makes this guy's case even more interesting is that he also had a kidney transplant a few years ago and has a pacemaker... talk about complicated. but he looked amazing and his family was wonderful.
anywho... you get the gist. both the 4th yr. and i basically just kind of followed on coat-tails... which is good for the time being as i like to see some of the things that dr. hendrix does [plastic surgeon who did a hand fellow].
well... time to get some reading in... a little anyway... and reflect on what tomorrow will bring.
until then....
i really need to get some pics up... of this lower rung thing.
love to all,
-g