If You Build It...

This is a picture from above of the corn maze at the AgriCenter this year. Maybe Danny Wimprine or DeAngelo Williams will emerge from the cornfields to save our season. Or maybe it is a hint that we should build an on campus stadium. Either way the Tigers dominated last Friday's game against Louisville, but still lost due to turnovers and special teams. They will have another chance today at East Carolina, and hopefully they won't invent yet another way to lose a football game. Drew will be very disappointed that it is an away game though, as all he has been doing the last two weeks is marching around the house and attempting to sing the Tigers' fight song. He also attempts the T-I-G-E-R-S, Tigers! cheer, but can usually only make it through the T before yelling Tigers. He has also been saying Pouncer very well lately, but says it in the cutest way, with the emphasis at the end, as in Poun-CER! Every time we get in the car he asks if we are going to the game. Basically I have created a little boy that talks about little more than football these days. He will get his football, crouch down, wait for me to say hut, and then run for a touchdown, come give me high five, and do it all again. Hopefully he got his fill for live football at the Arlington High School game that we went to last night. They are also the Tigers, so Drew was able to cheer away, even trying to copy the cheers and moves the cheerleaders were doing. Dad is trying to teach him to like the cheerleaders, but not necessarily emulate what they are doing.

On the medical front I have gotten about 16 interviews at this point, so I will have to narrow some down before I even begin going on interviews. It all starts right here at UT on November 7th. First I have to go to Atlanta on Friday to take the Step 2 Clinical Skills Test, where I will see standardized patients and take a history, do a physical exam, come up with a diagnosis, and order tests for them. It has been very hard to find any motivation to study for this test. Hopefully it shouldn't be any problem, as it is only a pass/fail test, but it costs a thousand dollars to take it, so not passing would be a costly mistake. As long as I speak proper English, act politely to the patient, and have some idea of what I am doing I should pass though.

Today we are going to the pancake breakfast here in Arlington, then watching the Tigers game, and then going to the Arlington Fall Fest at the square. It will be a fun filled fall day for sure. Hopefully Drew will cooperate and we will get some good pictures at the fall fest.

Here are some pictures from the last football game.