Since my last update it seems like I've been doing nothing but eating, sleeping, and studying.  Fortunately I successfully passed my HII exam (with 7 questions to spare!) and moved into the CRR unit.  Boring I know, but now you know why I don't update my journal very often.   But I finally have a few cool things to share!

As readers of Greg's journal know, he came back home at the end of October and we went to a med. student Halloween party.  Hilarity ensued, as did drunken fun, but can you blame us!   Everyone had great costumes:  Jack Black and Tenacious D, The Village People, She-Ra, Jem along with Synergy,  the Green Giant and Sprout, and even a Summer's Eve Douche were just a few of the best.  Greg and I went as Trinity and Neo.  And I'm proud to say my home-made pleather pants looked AWSOME!  I'm quite proud of myself, especially since I've never made pants before.

Well that's about it for now.  I'm getting ready to go and visit Greg for Thanksgiving and I'm really looking forward to it.  I only get to stay for a few days and I have to study while I'm there, but it will still be a nice break from everything.  

Happy Holidays everyone!

Do the Bartman - Another Matt Groening animation

Because I don't feel like embedding anymore videos the rest are hyperlinked for your continued enjoyment.  Unfortunately I couldn't find anymore animated songs, but they're still entertaining

Sibling Rivalry - growing up I felt like this was my own personal theme song - but then again I bet almost every other brother and sister felt the same
Look at All Those Idiots - featuring Mr. Burns and Mr. Smithers
Moanin' Lisa Blues
School Days
Born Under a Bad Sign
God Bless the Child
I Love to See You Smile
Springfield Soul Stew - for some reason this reminds me of the songs you used to hear from the Saturday Night Live band in the 80's and 90's
  
I think the first 4 songs I posted are the best, but the rest are still entertaining.  Let me know what you think!

I've been having the best luck finding hilarious things to post this week!  Here's another good one, enjoy!

I challenge you to watch this to the end without laughing.  I'm still trying to decide if it was created for gay men or for seriously disturbed women.  The "horse ride" had me rolling and so did the close-up shots at the end.  Enjoy!

One of the Med. students found this and posted in on facebook.  I couldn't resist sharing it with everyone too!  Almost every med. student watches House or Gray's Anatomy (and in most cases they watch both).  If you are at all familiar with the story lines of these shows you'll laugh you're ass off like we did!  ENJOY!  



I love Mad TV!

And  now for a regular update: 

A group of us went hiking today.  We started out at the Kinkade spillway (a really cool waterfall-like spillway comming off of Kinkade lake just outside of Carbondale.  We had tons of fun slipping and sliding on rocks as we climbed up it.  If anyone ever wants to come visit me in the summer I'll have to take you out there.  After fun in the water we headed for Little Grand Canyon for some real hiking and had a blast.  The trail is about 4 miles long and starts out paved until you start to head down into the canyon (and since it just rained yesterday it was wonderfully muddy, but still worth it.)  You end up climbind down this creek-like waterfall and following a twisting trail along a river bottom until you have to climb back up another "waterfall" and head back up to the top of the trail. (all along the river bottom there were small waterfalls too, we got pictures of several of them, but we didn't think to get pictures of the two we actually climbed on...d'oh!)  

 All told it took about 2 hours for us to make the loop thanks to several photo-ops, some trouble navagating a partially submerged path (the very bottom of the river bed had turned into a quagmire thanks to yesterdays rain!), and slipping and sliding up and down the waterfalls.  But it was a GREAT trip!  Here are some pictures my friend took on the trip (I'm not cool enought to own a digital camera so I pirated them from her facebook site - Sorry Katie!)

In general life here in Carbondale sucks and I can't wait until I move back up to Springfield for the remainder of Medical school, but I will miss the beautiful countryside around here.  It's really a nature lover's dream come true.  The hiking is wonderful and the wine trails are great too.  I think that's the only thing I will miss about this place.  I guess I'll just have to come down for a weekend visit every now and then when I need my hiking fix!

Well it's back to studying!  Have fun everyone!

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Hello everyone!  I've decided to take a study break and share with you some of the things that have kept me going this past week.  I hope you enjoy!

I just found this today and considering the recent posts of thephysicsninja I thought it was fitting.  I really enjoyed the music playing in the background.  I will admit though, I didn't find it on my own, I have to credit cynical-c for this one.  If you haven't checked out this blog you're really missing out.  Its updated just about every day and you can almost always something interesting.  Anyway, on with the show: