January 9, 2006

• Bamboozled does not mean liquored up

  The incredibly belated, possibly overated, and super well hydrated but
  not yet carbon-dated pics of the Chrismukkah party are now posted at
  the picture site, along with some of winter break karaoke

  Is there anything nicer than putting on a clean shirt fresh out of the
  dryer and then walking somewhere in 30 degree weather? if there is, i
  dont have access to it yet

  And while i am ruminating on the weather, I was checking a number of
  websites for my upcoming trip to Japan (sugoi!) and a lot of them
  warned me that Japan this time of year is very, very, very cold. Of
  course, none of these sites would actually say what that means, but
  finally i got some straight answers… Tokyo is usually around low
  30′s, and sapporo on hokkaido, the northernost island can drop to
  tempuratures of -4 celsius! aka about 25 farenheit

  tempurature range in chicago for the last 3 months…between 15-30
  avg tempurature about 25

  i think i’ll be okay. and this has been a warm winter in chicago! w00t!

  Oh and for those of you interested in my return to Japan, here is the
  tentative itinerary…for those of you not interested…too bad

  feb 8-9th arrive in tokyo, spend day relaxing (well, relaxing for me, anyway)
  feb 10th depart for sapporo to experience the magic and wonder of the snow festival
  feb 12th return from magic and wonder of snow festival to tokyo
  feb 13-16th tokyo and surrounding area with andy, and perhaps phil and steve-kamakura, nikko, wherever…fugu eating a must
  feb 16th-18th kyoto, nara, tajima (maybe i can get a place to stay in nara, eh vinh?)
  feb 19th through 22nd kyushu with ari- mt aso, beppu, kogoshima

  all this is subject to change, but if you are in japan around these
  dates and want to meet up, drop me a line. And andy, think about what
  you would like me to bring from america besides peanut butter cups
  (don’t worry i got your back )

  As long as i am boring all of you with the details of my life here are some things i did today:
  *50 pull ups
  *lunch meeting with Dr. Pullen and some other administrators about the future of the AP program (i’m a big man…a BIG MAN)
  *Broke a man’s skull with my BARE HANDS! Hulk Smash! Bwaaaaa!

  to clarify, this was an anatomy lab thingy. In order to reveal the back
  of the larynx, we had to saw off the top of the skull (neat!) and then
  saw along the middle cranial fossae lines (slightly harder) and finally
  use a chisel to pry lose the piece of skull we had sawed

  However, chisels were hard to come by, and one of the girls in my group
  made a half-joking remark that dude, The Josh, youve been working out
  why dont you do it, and long story short, I braced one hand on the
  inside of his skull and used the other to rip out the sawed piece,
  tearing ligaments, skin and fascia along the way.

  Did  i mention how bad ass i felt doing this?

  then as long as i was on the bare (well, gloved) hands kick, i also
  tore out several sections of charles’ spinal cord that were in our way.

  I am going to be really sad when anatomy is over…sure it makes me
  feel dumb for not knowing stuff when they test it, but god damn, it is
  hard not to feel macho when you are tearing out people’s hearts,
  viscera, and cracking skulls on a daily basis

  After that, jayan and i were feeling so pumped we went to the gym to
  work out. As per the dity workout (dity is a fellow student, so those
  of you who have googled the dity workout, it does not exist outside the
  school as of yet) the next two weeks is endurance training so we
  alternate like so

  day 1: 50 pull ups done in 25 sets of 2, followed by 80-100 dips done in 10 sets of 8-10, followed by 4 minutes of squats

  day 2: same as day 1 only do pull ups like dips and dips like pull ups

  day 3 and 4: same as 1 and 2

  repeat for 2 weeks

  Ego stroking aside, i must say i am impressed with myself…even 1 year
  ago i couldn’t do more than 3 pull ups total and that was only if i had
  a spot….now i can do 15 straight, and 50 with breaks, and it
  definetly shows

  according to apryl, i actually have an ass now. Go me!

  Oh and random question for you viewers out there in internet land. And
  i think you all realize that this usually means questions pertaining to
  the fairer sex

  so randomly this girl has started being very friendly to me. noticing
  my clothes at the club, complimenting my intelligence and dancing
  ability, and saying hello to me a few times a day when before i would
  see her on campus perhaps once a week. Now granted, this has happened
  only in a 1 week period thus far, but from someone who has a reputation
  of keeping to herself and her small group

  Now add in the fact that she is cute, but also has a reputation of
  being hard to get…what do her actions mean? is this indicating asking
  her out would be met with favor, or has she just decided to be more
  sociable and i am totally dropping the ball?

  keep in mind that i can not actually trust my own instincts nor those
  of my primary wingman, given our complete and total misreading of the
  pretty punjabi incident. which i am not going into, you wil just have
  to check backlogs

  and that about does it for today…until the next post folks!

  -J

  The josh remains mightily bamboozled

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