Injury Update

A brief history...

Sport (estimated years of organized play)

• Baseball (10 years)
• Wrestling (8 years)
• Flag Football (1 year)
• Soccer (5 years)
• Cross Country (4 years)
• Track (2 years)
• Tennis (8 years)
• Ultimate (9 years)

Now this is adds up to about 47 seasons. In all that time, I have never been injured in play and had to leave a game. Well, to the best of my knowledge. This past week at Sectionals, I jumped to D a huck. I didn't touch it and he didn't catch it. When I came down on my right leg, my knee was buckled. This caused it to hyperextend. I took a minute to think about my streak and tried to stand up. This didn't go well and I took my injury, like an old old man. About 30 minutes later I was back to about 95% and played the second half of the game.

By the next day, I really couldn't move my knee very much. Jenny recommend a doctor's visit (typical med school advice). After passing up the suggestion, I went on with my day. Later that day Jenny tested my knee with what tricks of the trade she knows and listened intently to my play by play account of the injury and picked the PCL as the culprit for the pain. She probably still thinks a proper doctor's visit would have been a better choice.

As of Friday, I am able to buckle my leg. Now I can bring it almost all the way back. So things are looking good for Regionals next weekend. I hope to test it out at Track on Wednesday.

Time to start the streak again. I hope that I can reach 50 injury free seasons this time.

Sated Acrophile

I really was not trying to be arrogant by picking these words as the title of my blog. They just seem most fitting for me.

Sated: to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully.
First of all "sated" has always been one of my favorite words. I take the concept of fullfillment and accepting of what I have received and am pursuing as an extremely important aspect of my life. I aim to be sated in all my needs in life.

Acrophile: someone who likes heights and enjoys climbing things.
I wasn't even sure if this was a word at first. I just new that acrophobia was the fear of heights, and much of my life has been marked by the complete opposite of that. I truly feel a little bit better about everything the closer I get to a large precipice. It's just a part of who I am. I love overlooking large areas and taking it all in from above. Even in my dreams I see everything from the third person, looking down on life. This could also be taken as a metaphor for always pursuing new heights in all aspects of life, but mostly I just like heights.

http://PenguinvPolarBear.blogspot.com

The origins of the title, in short. I once became fascinated by the concept that penguins and polar bears do not coexist. Mostly because to the average person they are both frozen snowy animals and therefore live in the same place. An obvious flaw in this theory is that penguins would taste great to starving polar bears (as I said in my first blog I will avoid comentary, but coughcomentarycough there). It is also a fun idea because they are both "adorable" animals and who wouldn't want a pet penguin or polar bear.

At one point in a statistics class, I was asked to explain the capture/recapture method of statistical analysis. I know what these means now but lets say at the time it meant nothing to me. Now this was the last question and I had 30 minutes left to go. I figured why not wing it. I went on to explain in much detail my feelings about penguins and polar bears coexisting (as seen above). I ended by requesting that the teachers assistant give me at least 1 point for making the grading process more phone. Ended up that the professor read it and gave me the 1 point. Now I'm an engineer.

In more detailed explanation of me as a person. I have been called a pineapple; hard sharp pointy outside that likes to drop on your head, but when you get deeper into me, you find out I'm quite tasty and nice. I think the penguin and polar bear fits in here quite nice. You can read the idea of penguin v polar bear and think of a slaughter of national geographic proportions. You could also think about how cute they both are and which is cuter. You could see the polar bear as the aggressive competitive carnivore side of me and the penguin as the silly waddling sliding carnivore side of me. Okay I don't eat many vegetables. All I'm saying is when you look at the link for this blog, you have a choice in how you feel about it.

Initiate this blog...

So I was not ever planning on having a blog and while trying to reply to someone else's blog I got sent to "http://penguinvpolarbear.blospot.com". Only I could have created that, and thus I must have created an empty blog in 2006. Well it has been a year and now I guess I'll try using this.

Here are my rules and they may be sad. I am a very argumentative/debative person. I know this could get me into trouble in enclosed environments and thus I have no desire to do it in a public forum. So there will be very little shocking analysis of anything on here. I also have little belief that anyone should care to much about the mundane details of my life. This has just eliminated about everything I could think of writing on here. Most of all if I have something to say to someone, I would just say it to them. In short, I don't know why I need a blog, but I'll play along because I don't want to be that old guy who doesn't know what all the kids are up to these days with their iphones and positraction.

On the flip side, this may lead to long rambling incoherent poetry.