sharpie

I love the many ways you can easily identify PT students. A good sign is a green Rehab Med lanyard hanging out of their back pocket just waiting to be commented on. Another one is that PT students are always carrying around a box of bones for at least the next two weeks. We have open bone labs, so you'll see us lugging around either a rectangular clear plastic bin with a number written on top or a rectangular ghetto cardboard box with a number on top. It's quite easy to spot actually. More signs include that PT students palpate themselves on the bus 95% more often than the general public, especially if they're reviewing lecture notes. Then might even lift their arm up randomly and poke at their armpit, but don't worry they're not looking to surface palpate the inferior aspect of the head of the humerus, their armpit is just itchy. This one's time limited, but PT students just recently had a biomechanics lab, and as such, were required to identify some structures and draw the axes of rotation of major joints with a permanent marker. If you were looking at a student and you see a dot right in the center between their collarbones, that's a PT student. If you're like my doctor who was examining three blue moles on my left hand, don't worry it's not melanoma, you just have to finish my health assessment because I'm a PT student.

So on the topic of permanent markers, Cool Calm Pete has this epic line in his song Lost which goes: "It's like you write with a Sharpie / you made a fine point". I'm not sure why that line is so etched into my mind right now, but every time I hear it I get excited. I just think it's really clever, that's all.

Tangential offshoot of our discussion together: I think that if there was a drug category I could get addicted to real easily, it would be opiates. I find my mood of the day is largely dependent on whether or not I get an endorphin rush from my run, and I'm wondering if this is an addiction type thing to the feel-good ways of endogenous opiates. They probably don't act in the exact same manner, but I'm speculating that there'd be some transferability in the results and their addictive potential.

I hate to say something really lame like this, but I feel more and more like Henry as the days go by. I run every morning, I feel older than everyone else, and as he says to Ben, "I like opiates." I often think Henry is my escape when I'm not interested in being myself, just because he's so darn complex and so incredibly cool.

Food for thought: When I'm chasing Henry, am I running towards a tangible goal or am I running away from myself?

lost

Just figured out how to use iTunes this morning. Yes, my aversion to anything with an apple on it runs very deep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to the point of ignorance.

Catch up on CCP?

YES PLEASE!

black friday

I'm just so impressed by this track from Cool Calm Pete that I seriously can't stop listening to it. It seriously reminds me of shades of MF Doom in his prime. It's the first track I bought on iTunes - actually Mag bought it but it was Will's money so technically Will bought it so thanks Will (haha convoluted!)! But honestly, it talks about everything wrong with the world:

Spend that dough before your bread is stale

You heard? He sold his guns to the enemy
Leader of the free world shot down your cherry tree

Now everyone’s so self-conscious
But trends stay sarcastic, pompous

Vitamins, minerals, iron, niacin
Nexium, Xanax, Valium, Ritalin
Random violence, two lines of coke,
Great recipe, but that’s not the antidote

So just do it, don’t leave home without it
Think different, less feeling, I’m bad about it

Attention shoppers, can of worms half price,
Slice of humble pie ain’t worth the shelf life

Fast life on a sesame bun

Now read the book kid, watch the movies
Straight to video, recycled material

Supersized, all wheel drive
It’s alive, yellow no. 5!

Seriously, best punchlines ever. The economy, American liberty, fast food, drugs, apathy, lack of education, chemicals - our world is dying! And my favorite line - "slice of humble pie ain't worth the shelf life"; nobody is humble these days! And you wonder why I've lost all faith in humanity!

Ah this stuff is like liquid crack poured into my ears!!!

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cool calm pete

This dude's Korean!? Really feeling this track: