So its getting nice out. By nice I mean quite brisk and the leaves have almost completed their transition from beautiful to ugly. The pumpkins are for sale everywhere, apple picking is winding down however apple cider doughnuts areon the rise. Football makes up most of the Sunday’s activities, I admit to playing in a PA softball league and my attendance fluctuates based on my exam schedule. It is really important to maintain doing the small things that produce joy on a daily basis. For me I jog or I was jogging until a minor setback with my left leg that has relinquished me to spinning on a stationary bike. The downside of a stationary bike is that they view never changes and you are in a gym somewhere with a lot of sweaty people that you don’t know. The upside is that you can STUDY while you cycle and it has done wonders for me.
On any given evening (prior to injured leg) I would attempt to study in my bedroom and average leaving my desk every 7 seconds just to see if there was anyone in the kitchen. Inevitably there was never anyone in the kitchen, as I live alone but it was a way for me to take a break and it became highly distractive to my studies. While on a bike I never feel the need to get off. The fact that I am biking on a simulated hilly road course while reading about endocrinology is more stimulation and constant distraction that I need. I have finally found a method of studying that works for me. I used to be ashamed that I was unable to sit still and study for hours on end. I have no trouble cycling for a couple hours and I never feel the need to get off. Now, I just need to work on building up my endurance and strengthening my legs so that I can spend more than just a couple hours on the bike. I guess I could try a stair-master or an elliptical machine but in all honestly I’m terrified that I might fall off and the women that dominate those machines look really serious. They look so serious that I whole heartedly believe that they are all in some sort of higly competitive league. A league in which there is a ton of free Ben & Jerry’s and a lifetime’s worth of buffalo-chicken pizza with ranch dressing for the woman who logs the most time and has read and absorbed the most gossip from US Magazine. Oddly enough I’m not all that serious about anything, I am also not female, I don’t eat pizza and I can’t read.
On a completely unrelated note, I spent the better part of yesterday learning and DOING male genital and rectal exams. Not a lot to say about that right now other than the fact that it was a great learning experience and my heart goes out to those that volunteer their bodies and body cavities for the learning of others. I made it this far in my life without ever placing a finger in another man’s rectum. But by this time next year I would say a safe bet would be upwards of somewhere in the 200+ digital rectal exams.
My future was looking bright……. but now its looking dark, hairy and over the age of 40.