Today, I had to fill out some paperwork that asked my race. The options were White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and other. This was over the top. None of these are “races” as defined by modern day physical anthropologists. I wrote in my “Other” race as Caucasoid, which is one of the four main races accepted by experts in the field today. They are:

Australoid
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Negroid

The attributes with which one is assigned to one of these races do not include external features such as skin color, in fact only skeletal structures and related measurements are used in defining the 4 human races.

That’s right. I am on track to finish up my undergraduate classes at UNC-CH one year from now. When I’m done, I’ll graduate with a Major in Philosophy (with Honors) and a Minor in Information Systems.

I hope to pursue a graduate degree in one of the following fields starting the Fall of 2006. I will likely work towards a Masters in Information Science, with the possibility of a dual-degree in Buisiness Administration. The SILS program offers a few dual-degree programs.

Woooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Just created a podcast RSS feed for the band Scribblin’.

You can access it here:
http://www.scribblinmusic.com/wp-rss2.php

You will need a podcast client such as iPodder or iTunes. In iTunes, I’m having some difficulty getting this podcast to work.

But it should work under iPodder for now. I’ll get it up and running with iTunes soon and let you know more.

I thought it would be fun to document the visual progression of my ankle injury. Time is such a great thing. And with this series of photos, I believe I have proven its’ existence. See? The same ankle but it looks different. It has changed over time. Um, at least I think it is the same ankle. I suppose it could be a new ankle at each moment in time, and it just so happens to depict a logical progression such that my mind is fooled into this whole concept of time. But wouldn’t that result in something similar to Zeno’s Achilles and the Tortoise paradox? Hmmmm… Ya know? I think it would! Grrrreat… I’m not even sure how to get out of this one. I’ll have to read more about it. Enough! On with the pictures:

Day 02

Day 03

Day 04

I was in an immobilizing boot, and on crutches, for 9 weeks. For most of those, I kept my ankle wrapped with a bandage and elevated, when possible.

Anna came back from the horse farm yesterday with some great photos. Apparently the girls got to see some lizards being born /and/ some grubs in the process of metamorphosing into beetles. Wow. The pictures speak for themselves:

Here you can see the adult lizard guarding the nest of eggs while one is hatching:

A close up of the lizard hatching from its egg:

A grub in the process of metamorphosing into a beetle:

Aurora showing the grub to Evie:

And, of course, Evie’s reaction to it:

This concludes the first installment of ANNA’S-Anna’s WILD-wild KIIIIIIIIIINGGDOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!! Stay tuned for more in the future!

Just as I was getting into the stride of my new exercising routine, I go an blow out my ankle! Man! I’ve worked up, over the past two weeks, to where I was running 2 miles three tmes a week. Running is one of my favorite forms of exercise probably because I ran so much in high school in soccer and on the track team.

Well, I went out for my jog as the sun was going down and didn’t recognize a spot on the sidewalk as a rock. I rolled my ankle on it and fell right to the ground. After vocally expressing my dissatisfaction with the situation, I examined the rock. If there can exist a rock with the property of being the most perfect rock on which to sprain an ankle, this rock would be it. It was perfectly shaped and had the perfect hardness on which to sprain an ankle. Maybe I should have kept it for scientific study, where scientists could have used it to design better moon-boots for astronauts. But I just threw to the side of the road.

The doctor said I should stay on crutches for at least 3 weeks. He said he expects my particular injury to take at least 6 weeks to heal. Glee……

If you’ve read this far, you may want to see the pictures of my ankle suffering from the torn ligaments.

A friend and old bandmate of mine, Wil Seabrook, is one of the 15 finalists on the CBS show Rockstar: INXS.

It will be interesting to see how he does. We watched the first episode last night and they didn’t show much of him….but he did make it to the next round. We’ll see more tonight! Go Wil! WOOOO HOOOOO!!! GIT ER DUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man tonight I got up on stage at the Daily Grind. I played three original songs on acoustic guitar and sang to them. What fun.

I wish I knew more “entertaining” stuff on acoustic guitar. We’ll see if I can’t learn more. It was alot of fun. I know I’ll be back again, and I better have more material.

gnite

My brother came by and helped me tackle my first soldering job in over 15 years. I had to reconnect a broken connection on one of the pins on the leslie cable I bought recently.

I was a little worried I would mess it up, but it went fine. The leslie cable works perfectly now. There is some interference noise when the leslie is at tremelo speed, but not at chorale speed. I’ll have to investigate that.

OMG. I haven’t laughed this hard in a loooong time. This guy Steve is a fantastic writer. On his blog, he has a section called Steve, Don’t Eat It!, which is fscking hillarious! I highly suggest the quick read. Wow.