you shouldn’t care, but you do anyway…

Attention loyal fans and voters:
I would totally use the Juicy plugin, but I didn’t notice that those themes aren’t really supported by blogsome.com — I will eventually migrate back to a real domain (thomas-wood.com revision2?) when I can, but until then I don’t think I can do juicy. I picked the best (simplest and not-uglyest) theme I could easily find on blogsome.com — I think I could manually edit the theme files, but I really don’t want to do all that.
test today was stupid, it had nothing to do with the material we’d been taught and instead was an opportunity to, in Bryant’s words, “antagonize its takers with faulty logic, poor layout, bad grammar, and completely indistinct vaginal exudates.”
I can’t top that.
Tonight is the halloween party, I’m probably gonna throw on a bomber jacket and go buy some mirrored aviator sunglasses and end “the great costume search” there. If UGA had won the game on saturday, I might have gone as the Florida fan again….it’s too soon.
-t

Hey, sorry for the triple post tonight:
I changed to a simpler theme, i didn’t feel like looking at that ugly one anymore. I might edit a theme to fit my design style a little later, but this black/white/red works for now. let me know what you think…or look here, click the tab on the top, and pick out a new one. Let me know what you like best and I will switch to it. First vote wins, I’ll retain veto power.
-t

I couldn’t get an entire batman clip, so I decided to just go through the DVD and take some screenshots.
This is a sequence of frames from one of the opening scenes. Simply quality film-making. I don’t even need to give you captions (although I will anyway).

Drop the Bat Ladder!

“Holy Anchovie, Batman!” (actually the dialogue there)

How convenient! take note of the other types of spray

The caped crusader getting an assist

The shark gets a face full

It drops into the sea…

But it was an exploding shark!

atman’s explanation to some newspaper reporters afterwards:

“that was an unfortunate animal who happened to swallow an exploding mine”

I really want to find a transcript online, just so you can experience some of the writing.
Unfortunately I couldn’t, but if anyone has access to an original script (or wants to transcribe it) I’ll post it.

that’s it for me. I’ll still work on distributing some of the clips.
-t

I re-found one of my favorite links (to assist in those “what was that song I heard today that I liked” moments): using mediabase.com to find radio station top-25 most played songs.
Pretty much you use google and search for “mediabase 107.9″ to find hot 107.9 in Atlanta. Or you can search by call letters if you know them, that’s probably a better way to do it.
I also use it to keep up with what’s being played in the ATL.
Here’s the link (find a city and a radio station) http://w2.mediabase.com/mmrweb/rronline/StationsMenu.asp

Enough of that, I’m gonna talk about my week!
Dr. Manting has used one primary strategy during the Women’s Health Intersession: desensitization. I walked in at 8:02 to a powerpoint of external female genitalia, accompanied by music. It’s been that kind of week. (I’m trying to avoid words that will trigger the spambots).
We had sexual history interviewing this evening, which involved interviewing standardized patients about “awkward” subjects. Some people had conversations about male sexual problems, I got two older female patients with suspected STDs. They actually made a DVD of my second interview, which I have since viewed on the computer. Don’t even ask for a copy.

ATL this weekend, it’s Katie’s birthday in less than 2 hours!
The highlight of the weekend will clearly be the Dunwoody Prep carnival on Sunday =)
-t

It’s the women’s health intersession!!!
Translation: Dr. Manting spends the first 30 minutes of class trying to explain why we are expected to just “scan” the assigned readings, looking for points that are repeated. We’re supposed to learn those on our own, because the in-class lectures are not covering all of the testable material.
That’s fine.
Except when there’s >200 pages of assigned readings. For each day this week. If I want to read 1000 pages in a week, it better be a Tom Clancy novel. Besides, the material is slightly to moderately boring (physiology isn’t exciting stuff) and it’s so hard to read a PDF on a screen without getting distracted. And I’m not going through a whole ream of paper just to print two days worth of readings.

OK, enough complaining. I’m overdue on a few movie and television reviews:

Batman Begins (DVD Widescreen). I don’t have a cutesy “5 tongue depressors” rating system, but if I did (and I might have just created one, I’ll define the scale in a future post) this movie would get 4.5/5. I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was very entertaining, and that’s exactly what I want in a movie. At a little over 2 hours, it was a good length for an action movie (in contrast, a 2 hour comedy is usually bad). It made me want to try out ripping DVDs on my new computer, starting with the Original Batman (Adam West) from the 1960s. I’ll find a good scene, rip it to a small file size, and post a link here so everyone can enjoy it.

There hasn’t been much on TV recently, baseball has dominated the landscape during the week. CSI of course is carrying thursday night TV (as long as Arrested, House, and OC are on a break, it’s about the only thing worth anticipating). I’ve been watching the UFC Ultimate Fighter 2 on SpikeTV and trying to keep up with Nip/Tuck on FX, but that one is a little weird. When Breaking Bonaduce is on, you absolutely can’t tear your eyes away from it (surprised the Sports Guy hasn’t written a column on that show yet). There aren’t any more MTV shows that are absolute “must-see” — am I getting too old for MTV?

I’ve been reading a little bit also, _Bringing Down the House_ (not related at all to Queen Latifah) was excellent and I will lend it to anyone who wishes to borrow it. It’s a quick read (<250 pages) but entertaining, and it makes you want to go play blackjack (despite the fact that it’s probably my worst casino game). Next are _Choke_ by Chuck Pahlaniuk (i don’t feel like looking up the spelling of his last name) and a western called _All the Pretty Horses_ which won some sort of award, and was an impulse buy (3 for 2 at Borders).

I’ve gotta go do a patient interview, ensuring I’ll be on campus past 5:00. Tomorrow is more womens health intersession followed by problem based learning small group, and then thursday afternoon will contain STILL MORE sexual interviewing skills sessions.

-t