the last week and a half has been… substandard. i’ve been sick since last monday. it’s the usual cycle i go thru at least once a year. it starts in my sinuses and i get all stuffy and congested. then i go through a few days where i cant sleep at night. when i lie down, this thick, viscous mucus runs down my throat. as i swallow it, it doesnt actually break off and go down my throat. instead, it just kind of hangs together in one long lumpy string, clogging up my esophagus until i gag and hack it back up. think… think of a gooey cheese on that stays attached when you swallow it and hangs on by a thread from your stomach to the pizza. obviously, this makes sleeping extremely difficult, and i usually move out to the couch so that i can hauk up
smelly lugies every 10-15 minutes without waking up danielle. by combining various cold medications in ways that were probably not approved by the FDA, i’m usually able to suppress the coughing and fall asleep between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. normally, this is an extreme pain in the ass to say the least, but this week it actually turned out to be reasonably advantageous.
IR spectrum for ethyl alcohol. for all u alkis in the audience. i wont mention any names.
yes, while i haven’t mentioned it up to this point, class has started up again, and lo! while there is no longer biweekly cadaver labs to report on, i do have weekly homework and, in what seems to be a recurring theme in these classes, we have a presentation to prepare and along with it, a paper on the same subject. the class this quarter is medical chemistry and our groups topic was infrared spectroscopy. a topic on which i could discourse ad nauseam, but which i will spare you having to read. anyways, both were due on wednesday, so being unable to sleep gave me plenty of time to work on the presentation… and beat a video game that matt bought.
prince of persia: warrior within. moving beyond the old POP for the apple IIe (if you can remember back that far)
so being sick sucks, but i still gotta go to work. too much to do and too little sick time. yeah, in fact the other day, i blew my nose at work and showed the lovely flourescent yellow colored snot to dave. it was nasty. but here’s something even nastier than that.
this pose was my idea.
ok, ok. nice pic, good pose, happy day, yada yada yada. but let’s take a closer look shall we?
gaaaahhh!
oh my forkin god! it looks like my is gonna pop under the pressure! i have never looked that fat in my life! i look so damn tubby that its spreading the skin on my scalp thin! i have got to lose some friggin weight. i mean, i knew i was pushing the pounds before the wedding, but this just looks horrible! i was gonna diet and exercise beforehand to try and fit into the wedding dress i had bought 2 sizes too small, but about 2 weeks into an exercise routine, i really screwed up my neck, putting me out for the month leading up to the wedding. i figured if i couldnt exercise, i wasnt gonna worry about watching what i ate either. hence the suit and tie.
well screw that. i got an email a while back from ritchie showing pics of him before and after losing 50 lbs. i’d show them here, but i havent asked his permission. lets just say that i am inspired by his example. today, begins my quest to go from about 185 to 170 by the end of march. yeah, i know that sounds aggressive, but it’s less than 1 pound a week. exercise is easy. biggest problem is gonna be the change in diet…
the day after halloween is not the best day to start a diet. that’s why i waited til this week….
