my week in vocab

Badness Heights: I mean, I love Siri, but she sometimes she doesn't understand me. Usually, it drives me crazy, but occasionally, I'm okay with it. For example, I told her to navigate to Vadnais Heights the other day, and she thought I said Badness Heights. I had to laugh. Because that's so much cooler than the real thing. (FYI: Badness Heights native Ben Mess won this surprisingly heavy swing dancing trophy on Friday. Ow ow!)

Buffalo Dog: the latest, greatest savory treat at the Xcel, which I devoured while watching the Wild climb to 1st in the NW Division, 1st in the Western Conference and 1st in the NHL with a rockin' come-from-behind shootout victory over the Blues last night. Hot sauce, blue cheese and cole slaw. Delish. 

Crazy, Stupid, Love: the latest Steve Carell/Ryan Gosling/Julianne Moore flick that Kristy and I laughed at while sippin' Moscato (hands down, my fav wine) in sweats on Friday night. Probably not Oscar-worthy, but highly entertaining. 

Movember: The worldwide fundraising trend for prostate cancer research that takes over the NHL during the 11th month of every year. {here's the official site} It's pretty hard to take professional athletes seriously with some of these ridiculous staches (the top 10, so far), but it's for a good cause. Last year, Ben was a part of the world record-setting group of guys with 'staches at the X.  

NPTE: The program I have to thank for the 7-pound book I just picked up to prepare me for my boards exam in July. Yes, I actually weighed it, because I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to cram that many pounds of knowledge in my brain. (I realize that I'm already supposed to know most, if not all, of it, but I think some of it has faded away since I started grad school...) [It stands for the National Physical Therapy Examination, btw.]

Pimp Limp: Hockey can be brutal...just ask the girl I cross-checked in my game yesterday. (To my credit, I scored within 10 seconds of getting out of the penalty box off of a picture-perfect pass from Bennett.) But then I got a taste of my own medicine, when I went down hard and destroyed my knee, so I'm icing a pretty gnarly contusion as I type. Kristy coined the term pimp limp yesterday, and I'd like to think that it describes my current gait pattern pretty well.

Pracna: The oldest restaurant on the oldest street in Mpls, where I met up with Kristy and a few of her scribe co-workers for a late happy hour on Thursday (after I had dinner with my CIs at Granite City for my MIDTERM eval-- woah, halfway done already?!). Right on St. Anthony Main, this place has so much character, and some pretty cool drinks. Why bother cutting lemons into wedges, when you can wedge an entire lemon onto a glass? (Our drinks came with an entire lemon, stuck with this pin--)

Syncope: The fancy medical term for fainting, which is what I wanted to do at pick-up hockey in South St. Paul on Friday. Woah, apparently my WHAM games haven't gotten me in as great of hockey shape as I thought. (In all honesty, my lungs just hurt. Unfortunately, there's no medical term for lung pain-- pneumalgia, perhaps?) But I realize this is my 3rd hockey-related vocab word, so I'll stop here.

TRX: Monday morning was probably the most fun I've had since starting at Children's. I shadowed the pediatric sports medicine specialty clinic, which involves an MD and a PT tag-teaming two mornings a week to treat the kinds of cases I totally looove seeing-- knee sprains, Osgood-Schlatter's, broken wrists. Just my thing. I even got to experiment with TRX, which is this awesome total-body suspension training system developed by Navy Seals, which I have since decided to do my in-service on at the Maple Grove clinic. 

So, ya'll probably just boosted your mental vocab bank by 0.0001%. As for this week-- only TWO days in the clinic! I also plan to listen to This Is Tha Carter on repeat during every commute (yes, it's been 7 years since it was released, but so. obsessed.), eat at Five Guys with Jack (who arrived in MN last night, but I have yet to see. #priorities) and his roomie London Will tomorrow, and head up to Monticello for Kristy/Clay's 25th b-day cele on Weds. And it goes without saying that Thursday is one of my favorite holidays. CAN'T WAIT.