No Shit This Happened

Well I have a great story to tell any one who will take the time to read this.
I’m going to call this a sea story, and the reason for this is I like the way sea stories start, but I assure you this is a true story, and I probably could not make it up if I tried. ( I will show you proof of it on Monday.)

No shit this happened. So this weekend I had all planned out, I was going to catch up on all my English homework, and work on my medical school application. The most exciting thing that I had planned was going to church on Sunday morning. But my plan changed. On Friday night at about 8:00pm my friend called and said his dad, a doctor was coming down from Great Falls and had brought three ATV’s and wanted to know I wanted to go ATVing with him and one of our other friends. Well I could not say no, and decided my poems would have to wait a day, there were ATV’s to ride. So the next morning I woke up and went over to his house, we loaded up the truck and went off into the woods. The first trail we went to was closed to ATV travel, so we went to a different trail to ride. We started out with no problems; I was riding my friends Honda 250 sport ATV. We went down a road for about 5 miles when we hit the trail that goes through the trees. It was dust, and hot, but oh-boy was it fun. So we go through the trees some, when we came to a part of the trail that cut across a mountain this mountain was very steep, and the ATV was tilting to the side a bunch. Then all of a sudden the ATV and I tumbled off the trail down the side of the mountain. I flew through the air, but lucky the nice soft ground caught me. I stopped sliding just in time to here a loud “CRUNCH!” The ATV hit a tree way below me. The first thing I did after I sopped was I stood up. My friend’s dad had come around the corner just in time to see the ATV summersault down the hill. He asked “are you ok?” “yah I said, but I don’t think the ATV is.” His response was, “well it’s dead” I climbed back onto the trail and looked down the mountain, when I realized the ATV was way down there wedged between two trees. My friend’s dad went back to the truck to get ropes and a hand winch and me and my friends waited there for him . We climbed down to the ATV so see how bad the damage was. It was lodged between two trees, the back axel was bent, and the break and peg were bent, other than that it seemed to be ok. We waited for a bit for the ropes to get back so we could recover the ATV. Now at this point I might add how steep the hill was. I’d say it was any where from 45 to 70 degrees, or about as steep as the bowls up at Bridger. So we hooked the ATV up to the hand winch and pulled it out from the two trees it was stuck in, then started synching it up the mountain. From my original fall I had scrapped most of the skin off my forearm, and had a nice shiner on m hip. Well like any thing else, it had to go from bad to worse. I was helping push the ATV up the mountain when all of a sudden my left knee gave out, and oh boy did that hurt. So from then on I was not allowed to help very much, doctor’s order from my friend’s dad. Luckily he thinks it will be fine in a few weeks. So after six hours of watching my friends push and pull the AVT up the steep side of the mountain we finally got it back up. The amazing thing was it still drove. Of course it looked like a horse because of the axel bumping up and down, but it still drove.

I was thinking about the original question we had in class on the first day, “what possible value can a 19th century novel by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, have for a 21st century, computer savvy student…” And the answer for me came to my yesterday in the form of me being thrown off a mountain by an ATV. Let me explain. Mr. Dickens’ character Pip is a arrogant twenty some year old kid who things he can do just about anything and every thing, AKA he thinks he is invincible. I am a twenty one year old kid who is somewhat arrogant and thinks I can’t get hurt, or I think I’m invincible. By the end of the novel Pip relies he is not as invincible as he thought he was and that he does not get every thing he wanted. Yesterday I realized I am not invincible, and a stupid ATV beat the snot out of me. So yes maybe there is a great value to reading about Pip’s adventures through life, and his growing up.

Consider the motion of the maglev

first off i would like to apologize for not writing in a while. Last Thursday i took the MCAT, this is a test that pretty much covers every thing i have learned in high school and collage. I needed to take this test so i can get into medical school. Since it is a big deal to score well i have been studying for that instead of working on my blog, I'm sorry. But the good news is now i am free. So I will start by looking back through my notes at some of the things I am supposed to write about that I have not yet. The first thing I found was to talk about how every thing is connected in the book Great Expectations. This goes back to the coincidences we talked about last week. For starters i would like to share a coincidence that happened with me in this class. Last week we were assigned our poems from Stevens. My poem was "Anicdoet of a Jar" I went home to read my poem and start trying to figure out what it means. and to my surprise, the little ribbon in the book was on the page that my poem was on. At first i thought "wow, what a coincidence." but then Prof Sexson, voice came into my head and said, " one in three" so i guess there was some divine reason for me to get the poem that i got.

So now i will move on to coincidences in the book Great Expectations. This book is full of them, just about every thing that happens happens for a reason and my seem like a coincidence. One example is the pale boy that pip beats up in the beginning of the book, he turns out to be Pip's best friend when he moves to London. So this book seems to be full of these coincidences, but this makes sense. What we have to remember when we are reading a novel is the author came up with the idea them selves and intentionally wrote the book the way they did. If things in the book did not tie back together the story would not be very interesting and the book would not be read by very many people. So Mr. Dickens did this on purpose to make the story have more depth and allow for a more interesting book.

The next think i found to write about in my notes was my most early memory of pain. At first i could bot think of much, i remembered my grade school, the play ground, some of the people i went to school with, some of my teachers, but no major events came to my head. Then when driving home from school the other day i remembered my earliest memory where I lost something that was dear to me. Any one who owns a pet knows that they become part of your family. I have always had dogs when I was growing up. Right now back in Colorado I have golden retriever and a golden doodle (cross between the golden retriever and a poodle, she is the one you all saw on my computer on the first day of class) So my earliest memory was one day when i was in kindergarten my mom came to school and picked me up early. She told me that we had to put Jake to sleep, he was the yellow lab that was older than i was. Well this confused me, because i knew he went to sleep every night and that was no reason to be pulled out of school. but then she explained to me what she meant ans that he was sick and was going to die. This is my earliest memory where i lost something and felt pain and disappointment.

Note i was asked to put the line on my blog from my calc book so here is goes, "consider the motion of the maglev"

Again i am sorry i have not been very good about posting my blogs, but now i am done with my test i will have much more time.