Sanity Gage

I have a small notebook that looks more like a long waiter's pad. Lately I've been writing random ideas onto it. This is one of them. I'll fill it out in more detail later but right now it is a 'Sanity Gage.' Each section will include a picture of someone at that stage. I should write a mock validation and reliability study on it.

Actually, that sounds really funny. I'll have to reference papers that don't exist or maybe mythical documents, i.e. the Necronomicon, etc.

Scanner back up.

It turns out that my fiance's printer's power cord works on my scanner.

Hooray for that.

We'll be updating later tonight.

Scanner down

My scanner is fine but I can't seem to find the power cord or the USB cord! I'm thinking I put it in one of my many boxes but I'm not sure why I didn't stick it with the rest of my cords. I now fear the possibility that it might have been accidentally given to Good Will after we purged the house before moving.

Well, time to really unpack once I get really get back home in a week!

2007-09-20

20 more days until my competency exam covering 3 years worth of information. As my undergrad physics professor would tell us, when asked what would be on the test, 'The sum total of human knowledge.'

I nice way to say bugger off and study.

20 more days and then I get to go off for 24 weeks of clinical rotations (internships). Basically after that test I'll really get to be alive again.

That is to say I have chosen to do this and it is my choice that I experience school in this manner.

No, that is not quite correct.

How about: I'm having an existential moment. That is, I realize that I have chosen to do this and my suffering is essentially my own fault. As everything I do IS my choice and my choice alone I have no place to complain about my current situation.

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Part of that is true. It WAS my choice to be here. However, it was not my choice to be given this much busy work prior to the biggest test of my life. I am learning little from this busy work mainly because my focus is more on the monstrosity looming over yon hill rather than it's little minions gathered about its feet.

Either way it will be over in 20 days. I can only imagine this is what it is like to wait for an execution that you really want to happen.

I quiver in anticipation.

2007-09-20

No real pictures, my scanner has been packed away for the moment. In 20 days I'll be taking a competency/exit exam for my doctorate in physical therapy before I go off to my last 24 weeks of interning. It'll be smooth sailing after that test- well until I graduate and have to take the licensure exam for real. Seriously though, life will be better after the test and I'll be able to focus on new and better things.

AndyWarholGIR:

Remember Invader Zim? The original picture is from the introduction of the show. It is something of a schematic of GIR. I was merely playing with photoshop to make this. As an afterthought I added GIR in the dog suit in the bottom right.

Pseudocians:

My roommate puts this the best: "Galactic Civilizations 2 is the devil. Screw you for letting me play it you bastard!" Poor guy was up until 5 AM one night playing. Galactic Civ is fun for me because you can make your own custom races, their powers, how they act, etc. etc. So my race was called the Pseudocians. This was fun putting together: the pirate guy in the foreground is actually a screenshot of a 'City of Heroes' character (seriously the best character creator even- you can make practically anything), the midground is actually some random picture which was once a shadowy figure (still there) looking through some windows into space, the background was made- poorly by erasing everything in the windows and then replacing it with an image from Eve Online.

Throw it all together and you have the Pseudocian's picture. Ah photoshop is awesome fun.



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What'll it make? I had the idea of taking the dwarf and adding elements of Jake from 'Advance Wars: Dual Strike.' The dwarf will have the same grumpy expression, but his left hand will be holding the head phones to one ear and his right hand will be on a turn table.

Now I plan to draw this out and actually did- it turned out amusing enough but I'm going to work on it some more. I thought of naming him MC Slayer (or something to that effect, but not Hammer) and using him as an avatar for the libram warhammer forums. Yes, I am that sort of nerd.

Sketchdump

New stuff! I recently scanned things from an old high school art book, weird!

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Yeah... yeah, I know- soon-ish.