Stealing

Today was my last day in the Pediatric clinic. The overwhelming majority of the kids there are so cute that I want to take them home with me, there are also the select few who are poster children for birth control. A water main leak caused a closure of clinics this afternoon which left me enough time to catch up on lab work. After returning home I watched the local news present a stunning piece of journalism on stealing from malls during the holidays. The footage was apparently shot by a 12 year old and his cell phone camera, this can be the only explanation for the granulated images, shakiness, and inability of the camera to capture more than an arm on film. Criticism aside, it reminded me of the time about 14 years ago at Value City as I was shopping for my yearly pair of athletic shoes. I played four sports and the shoes were supposed to last me a calendar year. Needless to say, you could see my socks by early September. Anyway, as my excitement reached its peak when I finally found the pair I liked and my mom could afford, I reached for the box of 10.5's. Grinning ear to ear I opened the box to find a dirty, broken down pair of high top Voit basketball shoes. Someone had pulled the old switcheroo and I was left with a pair of low top Boris Becker Puma knock-offs. Good Times.

Birthday

Well today is my birthday. I went for lunch with my family earlier today, nothing fancy, just good eats. Made my usual trek up the road to Indy, pretty routine outside of the standstill traffic 30 miles outside of the city. I am still trying to decide what I want for my birthday, but I have already gotten some good gifts. MP got me a heated shaving cream system, Brian Regan DVD (www.brianregan.com), and new glasses. Okay, I get the hint, I'm hairy, not funny, and blind as a bat! Oh yeah, she also treated me to a wonderful dinner at 'The Melting Pot'. Back to studying for me, more birthday gift upates to come.

Mall

I was forced to go to the mall today and it was exactly what I expected. Here are a few things I learned today:
1. No matter what technology exists or how popular internet shopping gets, high school kids love the mall.
2. If you buy something from a kiosk, you are a complete sucker. No one needs a pair of 24 inch turtle slippers, let alone a pair of three toed sloth ones.
3. No matter how good your makeover from the Clinique or MAC counter is, if you are 5'1" and 190 pounds you will not transform into Jennifer Aniston.
4. The number of bags a woman carries is often directly proportional to the thickness of makeup applied.
5. News Flash! 50% off means that prices were raised 60% on Wednesday night.
6. The frugality of purchases is inversely proportional to the degree to which the purchaser's hair is coiffed. (contributed by My Brother)

Movies

Until something exciting happens in my life or until I get done studying for boards this blog will largely be populated by what I believe to be funny quotes and stories that pop into my head.
As a brief commentary on the state of public education in Smalltown USA, I'll relate the question posed to me by a chubby, 15-year old girl as I walked into a movie theater with my two brothers: "Are y'all three twins?" Of course I was compelled to reply, "Yes."

Favorite Number

On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the best and one being the worst, what is your favorite number between one and ten?

-Frank Caliendo on the saliency of information given to him by his agent Barry Katz

Start

Just started my blog, I will see how long this misadventure lasts. More to come....hopefully.