Who has got the best reason for not studying?

Karen Embry, the tri-athlete extraordinaire, started a post, asking who has the best reason for not studying this weekend. She claims her daughter playing a trumpet kept her against the wall all weekend. A likely story.

As for me, I have just been sitting around getting fatter and fatter, reading this and that, writing a paper or two, putting together a power point presentation for Journal Club and so on, mostly sitting on my growing butt. That is the reason I have to get out and ride my bike, watch a stupid movie or two, make some phone calls to people I have not talked to in months. That is the reason that I am not paying too much attention to school this weekend. Basically I am tired.

The bicycle ride with the Velo Monrovia bicycle club this morning was really sweet. Actually I have not lost too much strength in the last month sitting on my study room chair. I do have to get an exercise bicycle for the house. I have rollers but the plan is to get a 1upUSA trainer. I’ll let you know how it goes.

If I get too tired of studying anesthesia I can always go back to UCLA and work again with my pal Betty Lee. Let me see, studying vs. going backwards, is that an option? I loved working at UCLA and have so many wonderful memories and friends from that institution but going forward is the only option. Today is another day and the road goes ever onward – but Bilbo said it best:

Roads go ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;

Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.

Biblo Baggins