Comfort in the Trails

A little bit of insomnia tonight. Strangely, it’s kinda ok. In talking with a professor on Monday, I mentioned that I like to run and how much I miss to run along the C&O Canal (another good picture I found here) and my inability to find an equivalent jogging trail. He told me about this amazing site and after running some errands I stopped by this afternoon for my daily run. It is a gorgeous area. The running trail is paved, but surrounds a lake that is reserved as a bird and wildlife habitat. As soon as I get the chance, I’ll bring the camera and post any pics up on flickr.

The trail itself is definitely a lot harder than the treadmills at the gym, but…truth be told, running outside in the woods is like pulling on an old blanket and instantly feels like a home of sorts. It’s a hard run and I was sweaty and out of breath really quickly, but I could instantly see the future weeks and mornings and evenings spent on that trail, and…and I can’t wait.

Elegance

Elegance is something that must be whispered and not shouted.

Via

Images On The Side And Where We See That House Is A Terrible Doctor

No way but to just spill it, but I’ve been seeing shapes and people that aren’t there in the past two/three days. It’s starting to weird me out. Something that isn’t helping is that after finals, I spent a day catching up on House) episodes so on top of random ghosts I’ve been seeing, I’m also wondering if I have some kind of crazy tumor in my toe that developed due to eating a radish while in Mongolia. And let’s be honest, as awesome as House comes off, has anyone notices that every single episode is the same story?

Act I: Where our Medical Mystery Of The Week is presented

House makes snarky remark that is overtly racist/sexist to [insert minority/female/gay character here]. Our MMOTW is introduced with a sickness that can (and will) be a metaphor for a personal issue in [insert minority/female/gay character]‘s life. House does not take MMOTW seriously and diagnoses (and quickly treats) them with X. It is not X and MMOTW gets worse. House looks away from camera with a serious look in his eyes.

Act II: Where House nearly kills the patient at least twice

While most people would think to slow down after a misdiagnosis that nearly kills their patient, we are hit over the head with the notion that House is not most people. Indeed, he is such a genius of a doctor that he treats MMOTW for illness Y just as rashly as he did with the first misdiagnosis. Almost inconceivably Y is not at all helpful and MMOTW nearly dies…again. House looks off into the distance with a serious look in his eyes.

Act III: Where Blind Luck and Genius Intersect…Dramatically

So at this point, MMOTW has nearly died 2-3 times. Things don’t look good and neither House, nor any of the Cottages can correctly determine what is wrong with our patient. House sits and speaks with Wilson or [insert minority/female/gay character here] and an off-hand comment will connect the dots for House leading him to the correct diagnosis. However, he is stopped (SHOCK!) by Dr. Cuddy or others because, well, because he has nearly killed his patient 2-3 times by this point with rash and unsubstantiated diagnoses. However, House is never to be stopped because he is House and the fact that on every episode, without fail, he nearly kills his patient at least once is irrelevant this time because, due to a total fluke, he is now right. Patient gets better, all parties look to one another as if they learned something (they didn’t) and House looks a little below the camera with a serious look in his eyes.

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On a better note that does not involve ghosts or House, go listen to Chantal Kreviazuk’s wonderful song, Time. Pretty!

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