you shouldn’t care, but you do anyway…

good morning everybody, my week has been fairly busy.
OC last night was kinda predictable, everybody saw the relationship between Reese (i mean Taylor) and Dean Cardigan-under-his-blazer coming from a mile away. We (i was over at Ralph’s with a bunch of guys, enjoying KJ and her mom’s Scotcheroos) were hoping for a camera-phone “caught in the act” pic but unfortunately they wanted to stretch out the drama until the baseball playoffs are over (Nov. 3rd is the next OC, House returns on tuesday the 1st). Ralph has a large TV with HD, so OC will never be the same. Anybody got about 10 grand to spare, I could install a nice HDTV setup for you for no installation charge, you just have to let me come over whenever I want…
Heading home for the weekend right after the ophthalmology interest group lunch meeting, and I’m excited. gotta go, that’s about it for now.
-t

The presenter that talked this morning told us that we didn’t have to show up until 8:15. 15 more minutes of sleep = wonderful, especially because it’s raining and I had a little more time to drive in today. She ended at 9:15. Our next class isn’t till 10. So, I’m over here at the library killing a little bit of time online. I kinda wish she had let us come in at 9, but I think part of the reason why she ended earlier was that she got a page from her kids’ school. she said “which kid is faking sick trying to come home this time?” it was quite hilarious.

[huge computer nerd stuff]
The new version of Windows coming out soon used to be called Longhorn, but now it’s changed names to Vista. This happened a while back. However, I sense a conflict brewing: a software program developed by the US Dept of Health and Human Services (they run Medicare and Medicaid) is named Vista Office. It’s actually public domain, and will be offered by various vendors to small physician offices for CHEAP (the cost of CDs, plus the cost of the licenses to run the database, totalling less than $3000 for the first year) compared to the $10,000 per doctor fees for most other enterprise medical software. I’m all for public domain because it generally assures that bugs can be fixed quickly and everything else.
However, Microsoft needed to do a little more research before renaming their product. It’s still in beta testing, so maybe they won’t release it as “Windows Vista” and instead will call it “Windows 2006″ but don’t bet on that.
[end of huge compter nerd rant]

Welcome back, everyone that was smart enough to stay away from that paragraph. I have a flag football game at 9:00 tonight in the mud under the lights at ASU, and i’m excited about some smashmouth no-contact football. I’ve got good cleats, and hopefully that’ll help. I’m getting the blocking schemes down, assuming that our QB bootlegs the correct direction I can usually give him a lot of time. When he just sits back there, though, the rules of flag football aren’t conducive to the blockers giving him a lot of time…you can’t initiate contact (it’s like a combination of blocking a soccer penalty kick and trying to draw charging fouls in basketball, you technically have to pick a spot and stay there and hope you guessed right).
9:51 means it’s time to go back to class, more later
-t

Have I used that title yet this year? It’s automatic to type that, because it describes the blahs of the first school day of the week.
I had a great weekend, even though katie was sick we hung out and did a lot of relaxing (which everybody knows is my favorite activity). James and Mr. Jordan smoked 2 pork shoulders, 2 racks of ribs, and 4 pork tenderloins on saturday (on my smoker, so of course I got taste-testing privileges) and as a result, i’ve got 3 pounds of chopped pork in my refridgerator.
Currently watching the LSU/Tennessee game, I can’t imagine how loud it is in there. I hope Jenny found some tickets, hopefully some alumni weren’t able to make it for tonight’s game — although I don’t see too many empty seats, so I’ll have to find out later.
Other weekend events include: my best golf school performance in recent memory (at least with the driver) and a not-so-memorable UGA win. A win is a win but we should have scored more than 23 points. Plus, we got the bush league announcers. You’d think the 7:45 ESPN game could do better than Gary Bender and Bill freaking Curry. They were awful. Cameron noticed first that Bender sounded EXACTLY like Paul Harvey: “and here’s the rest of the story, this is the nicest grass in college football here in Starkville.”
Came back to Augusta yesterday, and watched Grey’s Anatomy (where I saw the “cool ‘em down and stop their hard for neurosurgery” on TV for the second time this week which means it must be real). ABC needs to start their programming a little earlier, because after desperate housewives is done, it’s 10:00 and the best show of the evening hasn’t started yet (DH fans feel free to protest, but you can’t expect me to like that show as much as a show about surgical interns).
Arrested development now, more later.
-t

and that’s 11 days too long.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050908a
Bill Simmons email-back-and-forth interview with Josh Schwartz (OC creator and producer).
Some good info in there, including one mini-spoiler (KJ I’m looking at you).
Studying sucks, I wish they hadn’t covered every antibiotic in the world in 5 hours of lecture…
I was about to gripe about how difficult it is to know what drug you’re supposed to use for each infection, but I signed up for this.
-t

This isn’t gonna work unless everyone pitches in and helps make this place entertaining…I can’t solely bear the “witty banter” burden.
I had a great weekend, involving watching some Entourage, going outlet shopping (i bought a coat from polo and got a brown belt from banana republic on sale for $10, while katie bought everything she could get her hands on) and watching some football. we went to Mick’s in Decatur (thanks Mrs. Jordan for the gift certificates) and then went back to Leslie’s house where her parents have renovated the basement and living room (pool table in the basement = the best one i’ve ever played on, and the living room plasma TV is incredible). Sunday was a special-music-laden church service then a subpar lunch at Green Tomato (a country buffet on Holcomb Bridge/Spalding run by an Asian family, it was a little odd) then Golf School in the afternoon. I unfortunately had to get on the road to come back to the AUG after that, because of my ever-so-interesting lectures this morning on antibiotics and Nisseria spp. That’s the family of Gram(-) bacteria that causes bad cases of meningitis and all cases of gonorrhea.
That makes me current to right now.
Tonight:
Arrested Development season 3 premiere!
The Ultimate Fighter 2 after Wrasslin!
Studying Bacteria and Antibiotics!
-t