After Getting Pwned By 1st Semester...

I'm back in the academic rotation, official as of last week.

I had to resolve some ego issues that affected my prioritizing during my first semester. I'm sure I could reach incredible depths of reflection that would leave me to an understanding of life that could be likened to the perspective of a Dr. Manhattan. But, for the sake of brevity and simplicity, my problem was this: I relied on my reasoning skills on exams much more than my studying skills--and, I dug myself a hole too deep in exam scores that hours of studying for the final could not make up for.

So, many things have happened since October. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day...and, those are just the commercial events. But, basically my basketball team, the Killa Beez, has been making great strides as a team in the AAA-E/Open Division of Dream League.



Despite our 2-4 record, we have grown A LOT as a team, and our skills on the court have shown a lot of improvement. I looking forward to seeing us next season.

I've also been keeping up with my physical activities. For those of you who find going to the gym an exertion of too much effort at times, I suggest you invest in an Iron Gym which runs for around 30 bucks on Amazon. A caveat, though: people with wider shoulders may not be able to get as good variety in their work out because of a doorway's width limitations. But, I've found the pull up bar to be a very effective strengthening tool. Cop eet, ya skinny bastards.

In any case, I'll be threading back into my life on my days after clinical, or other times I have a little bit of down time to procrastinate. Here's some eye candy:


Drake - Lust For Life x HoustonAtlantaVegas [mash-up video] from 5846productions on Vimeo.

This is a very emotive piece, and the two songs used are current (for a month, or so now) favorites of mine off of Drake's So Far Gone album. I know nothing about the artist of the video, but thought I would share such a great combination of audio and visual stimuli. I especially appreciated the accentuating of the most minor nonverbal cues--it really makes it a piece that can communicate almost universally. Check it out!