Binary Tuberculosis

I hate April Fool’s Day, just a pre-emptive “that shit isn’t funny”.

“You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.”

Apparently I’m Hillary Clinton…at least I’m close to Gandhi as well.

You are a Social Liberal (75% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (31% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test

Well, looks like the university I am currently attending is in the Final Four, go George Mason University. According to my roommate the odds were 1000:1 against GMU for this past game against University of Connecticut.

I guess I should be happy, but call me a geek, my school spirit is lacking when it comes to anything sports, give me something that shows off mental prowess instead of physical ability. That’s Western Philosophy for ya, where athletes make more money than Nobel prize winners. But then again, things are changing in the East as well, I blame it on Bollywood.

Or then again, maybe I’m just bitter because I’m dumb and suck at sports.

Life’s been pretty hectic. Got a major project at work and very major projects at school, plus the fact that I have a dentist’s appointment on Monday that I have to go home for, which I really don’t want to do, three of the four school projects are due next week and I really need the time. Damn dental hygiene.

Plus, I can’t go to any concerts which are happening these couple months because A) My friends down here are complete holes and don’t like music (especially not concerts), B) I’ve got class on weekday nights, so a lot of the concerts I can’t attend anyway.

I can’t wait to graduate and get my ass back to Boston, 9 more months baby, then a new TB shall come forth from the loins of academia.

I’ve been wanting to mess around with an Asterisk server, but I really do not have the time, even my geek life is in ruins these days. Just as well, Vonage is supposedly opening up it’s SIP credentials “at the end of 1Q 2006″, so any day now I would hope. International DID numbers baby with forwarding to a personal SIP address, that’s slick geeky stuff. I’m going to have to look into DNS settings for my domains and see how they can link to VoIP servers without breaking my DNS/MX/A settings now…hmm, that should be interesting.

I’ve wanted to setup an HTPC for a couple years now too, but I really don’t have the time or cash for that either, but that’s just as well, I’m holding off on the HTPC until I actually have my own place with a great audio/video setup. My desktop PC which I’ve mutated into a pseudo-HTPC will have to suffice for now.

Just got back from the gym. Did weights instead of my usual running, you know, cause of that knee injury I’ve been bitchin about non-stop. Dude, I am jello right now, I kid you not. I used to be able to do much heavier lifting back in undergrad, I’ve really lost a lot of muscle mass.

I’d still rather do cardio personally, but can one do cardio without using one’s legs? I doubt it. Can’t wait for May 1st…stupid 1.5 months.

ITBS, that’s what I actually have, not what I mentioned in my previous post. This time I was actually diagnosed by a doctor with an MRI of my knee in hand. So what is ITBS? Here’s a quick cut/paste:

The iliotibial band is a superficial thickening of tissue on the outside of the thigh, extending from the outside of the pelvis, over the hip and knee, and inserting just below the knee. The band is crucial to stabilizing the knee during running, moving from behind the femur to the front during the gait cycle. The continual rubbing of the band over the bone, combined with the repeated flexion and extension of the knee during running may cause the area to become inflamed, or the band itself may suffer irritation.

So what do I have to do now other than complain? Well, I’m not allowed to put strain on my right leg for 1.5 months, yeah, no running or biking or any type of exercise on my right knee, AT ALL. Extreme annoyance for me. I guess for 1.5 months I’ll be working on my upper body, not like I can do any cardio at all that doesn’t involve my legs. Ugh, haven’t done any real weight lifting since my undergrad days, oh about 6 years ago… Plus I gotta take some prescription meds, I’m not a fan of medicine either.

Oh yeah, so the MRI, I thought it was pretty cool. It’s not really for the claustrophobic though or people irritated by loud noises. Tossed in an open-ended coffin with ear plugs on (and you’re allowed to move at all for 30 minutes), I was gone, asleep for 30 minutes and woken up when the nurse came in and said it’s all done. I wouldn’t mind getting another one…wonder if long exposures are harmful.

I brushed off my Latin to change around the above proverb to suit my needs for my current mini-vacation. The new proverb fits like the last piece of a 1000 piece Taj Mahal puzzle.

I’ve put my little sister on dessert making duty, she’s doing a great job. So far my job has been to buy the ice-cream and think of the ideas to push us into diabetic country, hers is the manual labor. She doesn’t complain to her brother though, good little girl. All the dessert has been the full fatty kind, none of the low-fat chemical froth. We’ve been living like Kings, “Hell Damn Ass Kings!”.

Think hot walnut/chocolate-chunk brownies, amazingly bubbly apple crisp, tons of different kind of heavy ice-cream (thanks Breyers and Ben & Jerry’s), a bushel of girl scout Samoas cookies, plus M&Ms as a dash of seasoning on everything once the warm dessert is gone.

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever eaten this much in a continuous basis, ever. And I’m an eating machine people, an eating machine.

PS: “I don’t eat to live, but I live to eat”