For the last day of IH 0051, my Asian instructor told us how the western paradigm of science failed to explain a number of things that could be done by people.  One of his examples was how one could draw energy from the Earth Mother to grant people strength.  This demonstration started with me sitting in a chair and three men and the instructor trying to lift me just using two fingers.  They failed as the instructor stated, but after a few minutes of meditation they tried again.  I thought they were going to succeed until I heard the first grunt of pain and felt myself falling onto the floor.  It appears that Eastern meditation and the Earth Mother simply can’t overcome the powerful combination of a fat white man and physics.

I was picking up a piece of trash when I heard the distinctive ripping noise that all self-aware fat men fear.  It is the noise of inferior stitching, mediocre materials, and a profound embarrassment.  Oddly, this tear was at my knee, but it slowly grew up my leg as the day progressed and with four hours to go a 8″ air vent at my thigh I new action needed to be taken.  So, during my lunch break I drove around wildly in Jersey streets I’d never seen in what was going to be a vain effort to get new pants.  As I stepped into my vehicle the tear extended to a “America’s Funniest Home Videos” level and I had to go for broke.  When all hope seemed lost I saw in the distance “Nick’s Big and Tall”, a look at my watch showed 4:55 PM giving me 5 minutes to find a way to due a U-turn (stupid jug handles) and buy new pants.  At 4:59PM I bust through the door wearing my judge striped shirt, polished shoes and pants that look like they had contained a crotch-origined mortar blast and state “I need pants!”.  The help was quick and efficient and I returned to the venue and no one was the wiser… If you’re a giant man with busted slacks in Tom’s River New Jersey I highly recommend talking to a man call Lorenzo at Nick’s Big and Tall.

I was picking up a piece of trash when I heard the distinctive ripping noise that all self-aware fat men fear.  It is the noise of inferior stitching, mediocre materials, and a profound embarrassment.  Oddly, this tear was at my knee, but it slowly grew up my leg as the day progressed and with four hours to go a 8″ air vent at my thigh I new action needed to be taken.  So, during my lunch break I drove around wildly in Jersey streets I’d never seen in what was going to be a vain effort to get new pants.  As I stepped into my vehicle the tear extended to a “America’s Funniest Home Videos” level and I had to go for broke.  When all hope seemed lost I saw in the distance “Nick’s Big and Tall”, a look at my watch showed 4:55 PM giving me 5 minutes to find a way to due a U-turn (stupid jug handles) and buy new pants.  At 4:59PM I bust through the door wearing my judge striped shirt, polished shoes and pants that look like they had contained a crotch-origined mortar blast and state “I need pants!”.  The help was quick and efficient and I returned to the venue and no one was the wiser… If you’re a giant man with busted slacks in Tom’s River New Jersey I highly recommend talking to a man call Lorenzo at Nick’s Big and Tall.

I had to meet my adviser today to schedule a select admission class but the only appointment I could get was at 2:00 PM which is during another class. Hm… I got up to leave that class at about 1:55 PM and the TA asked where I was going and I blurted out “the rest room”, no one’s going to argue with that Terry, genius!  I walked two blocks, up four flights of stairs and found my adviser was disposed, so I waited, and waited, and finally met, spent 12 seconds to fill out a piece of paper work and returned to the class still in session.  As I walked in the door, the TA looked up again and I quickly glanced at the clock it was 2:35, I had spent 40 minutes “on the can”!  So, I wiped fake sweat off my brow, exhaled fully and quietly said “no more Persian food for lunch”.  Her jaw went slack and her face contorted, and I sat down triumphantly.

The PTQ saw me as the designated driver to do the Wawa run for lunch.  I assembled the food for the five of us and as I approached the counter to pay the attendent said “hungry?” in that funny way that both recognized that I was shopping for multiple people and called me fat.  After moving the 5 sandwiches, 2 cups of soup, 3 gallons of beverage, and 3 pieces of fruit next to the register, I grabbed by gut and responsed “I am buying for five.”  I think there was about a 60% chance based on the look on her face that she thought I was pregnant.

My atlatl has arrived.  Atlatl’s are a primative weapon that was used by those in the neolithic era as a technological advancement over the spear.  The atlatl has also recently been legalized for hunting in Pennsylvania and after stealing my brother’s hunting journal have bronzed the article.  Note to reader: don’t bronze flammable materials, you just get a lump of bronze.  I over came this by rewriting the headline of the article in a Sharpie on said lump of bronze.   Later I talked with a bow enthusiast friend and he swore up and down that there’s no way a piece of bamboo and a dart could take down a deer.  I agreed with him, that it probably could take down a 170 lb deer at 50 ft, so I’d have to settle for being able to take down a 4 ton mastadon at 150 feet.  Damn.