Another good one

I've been hooked on this song since it was released last September. One of the better songs they've made in a while.

Great song, funny video

The video has nothing to do with the lyrical content, it's just funny. I'm often surprised at some of the BNL's songs because they deal with relationship conflict, yet they appear to be happily married people (from what I hear). Maybe they've had some sour grapes in the past.

Country roads take me...

Well, it's been two months since my last blog, so I better update (at least I'm consistent). Where to begin...

I was on internship interviews last time I blogged, which went well. I got a better feel from some places than others. Most of it was due to the interviews lasting a very short time, e.g. U of Arizona spent a total of 1.5 hours with me. What's that about? I fly all the way out there and I get 90 minutes? Maybe they had bigger fish to fry, anyways, don't care. The West Virginia trip, though, was a much better experience. I had a very good feeling about the place, and came away with a very good impression. Consequently I ranked it #1 in my rankings. Which surprisingly came fairly easy, other people have some difficulty in deciding I hear. This was my final ranking as of 2/7/07:

1. West Virginia University College of Medicine
2. University of Arizona College of Medicince
3. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
4. Utah State Hospital

The place I was least excited about gave me the roughest time in the interview (Utah State Hospital). I was asked to interpret WAIS and MMPI protocols on the spot, as well as remember tiny details of research I did years ago. Sheesh, quite the drill. Anyways, as I said before, don't care it's all in the past. Once rankings were submitted, we had a wait of about 3 weeks, talk about sweating it out.

During the waiting period I attended the INS (International Neuropsychological Society) conference again, it was in Portland, OR this year. I had a really good time, I saw some folks from the BYU and visited with Dr. Bigler again. Tammy and Rich were there as well, it was fun hanging out with them. Mom and Dad came down from Quincy and we spent some time together. We went out to the Clacamus (sp?) Mall for the first time in like 14 years. We used to go there all the time when we vacationed in OR as kids. It has really changed, and it's pretty weird. We had a good time though eating ice cream and walking around. I bought a train whistle for Kelly and some local dude's pottery for Rachel. It was pretty cool stuff. While driving I realized I forgot how beautiful OR is, it's such a pretty place. I wouldn't mind moving back here when it's all said and done; that is, if the Mrs. doesn't mind. Well, the rest of the conference went well, I attended an ADHD seminar that was very well done by Dr. Shelley Heaton. I also went to a neuroimaging one moderated by Dr. Bigler on the importance of white matter. Us BYU kids went out to eat at this Thai restaurant "Typhoon" that was tasty, it's always nice that the BYU faculty pick up the bill on this one. On the last day I went to see my old mission companion, Brian Coleman. It had been several years, so it was fun catching up and seeing his wife and kids. Here are some pics of us looking good.




Speaking of looking good, we watched his wedding video during summer of '98. Walker and I went to it, so there was some footage of us. Holy crap I looked different, at least 25 pounds different. Talk about a motivation to loose some weight and get back into shape. Things sure are different now, anyways. Well, the trip was fun.

Now we are at the present, and it was a week ago that I was biting my fingernails to find out where we'd end up. I woke up really early on Monday morning to get the email (rumor was they arrived as early as 6:00am), and prepared myself for worse-case scenario. So here we are, all of us, in bed with my laptop ready to open the email, and....
it's West Virginia!!!

Needless to say we're excited, it's only for a year and it'll be fun. We'll, off to bed for me. I'll more on the site later.

Merry Sickmas & Happy Puke Year

Well, the holidays are over, which is kind of nice. We went to Idaho to be with Rachel's family for Christmas. It was fun to be with everyone from the family; the first time in 4 years. We went bowling, played Xbox, ate out, went to the movies, played Guitar Hero (fun!), and played more Xbox. Kelly got a barn handmade by her Papa Warren, it is very cool. I'll post pics of it later. All in all it was very nice....except for the flight home. We were on Southwest about an hour and a half from St. Louis when we hit this turbulance. Kelly was asleep on my lap when she started puking, like a lot of puke, three times a lot of puke. It went all over the place, she completely soaked her jumpsuit, shirt, and shoes. It was quite a mess. Despite the seat belt sign I took her to the bathroom to clean it out of her hair and get her out of her wet clothes. The flight attendant was really nice, he gave us an old shirt of his for Kelly to wear (it was like a big dress). The rest of the way I held her on my lap, then she threw up again all over me. So, when we arrived at St. Louis, we were covered with dried vomit. What a flight... I guess a parent has to experience that at least once in their lifetime. On the flipside Abby did very well on the flight. To top it all off, Rachel and I got food poisoning on New Year's Eve night, so we were fighting for the bathroom all night long with no sleep. When the kids woke up in the morning it was a jungle. Fortunately Kelly went to a friend's house, so we got some peace. Well, it was an exciting time, but like I said, I'm glad it's over. Right now I'm sitting in the Albuquerque airport waiting to fly to Tucson for another internship interview. The New Mexico site was really cool, I liked it a lot. We'll see how the others shape up and then I'll post my impressions of them. Well, gotta jump on this plane.