MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

Vic: Should be a close match today, Kenny. We have the "Dedicated Enema Technicians" versus the "Perianal Fistual Fixers".

Kenny: Hehehehe. Peri*anal*.

Vic: Kenny!! Enough! We have Guy LaDouche on scene for an interview.

Guy: Hello. I *ass*ume you will win the Med Monster Mash costume competition. What do you think?!

Contestant 1: I have blood in my stool!!!

Contestant 2: I like dirty girls!!

Guy: You are so turning Guy on!

Captain Tenneal: Leeeeeeet's git it on!

If you haven't seen MXC on Spike TV this won't make much sense to you. This year for the Med Monster Mash dance, me and a bunch of friends got together for a group costume. Although the costume prize went to Chris dressed as Gwen Stefani and a bunch of girls dressed as his/her Harajuku Girls, it was still good times.

MXC: Kenny Blankenship and Guy LaDouche

Here is Nelson (Guy) interviewing me (host Kenny Blankenship). I built my costume using a cardboard box and clothes I borrowed from Laine: flip flops, a kimono, cardboard shoulderpads, a scarf taped to the shoulder pads, and a sash from a taekwondo uniform. Don't get eliminated!!

Pelvic Exams!

Today was a more than normally fun day at school. We spent the entire morning practicing speculum exams, bimanual exams, and prostate exams on plastic dummies! Woo hoo! The dummies were actually very realistic -- I think they cost around $600 a piece. They had replaceable uteruses and prostates so you could feel different pathologies. Good times!

After class Carla and I went for a run. We ended up running down the river bank and across the LRT (subway) bridge over the river, back up the river bank (~200 stairs), and back across the river on the high-level bridge. In this satelitte image you can see the two bridges we crossed, and the parliament buildings to the top right of the screen.

Other than that I've just been studying gynecology (gross/boring) and wasting time on my laptop. Time to go iron a shirt/tie for tomorrow!

First day of school: Bar Wild

Here is the cute couple, out dancing after the first day of school this year. That week actually included 3 nights out dancing (one of which was a pub crawl), the golf tournment, free BBQs, free stuff from the banks, and all of the other usual orientation stuff. Good times. Hopefully we showed the first years a fun first week in medicine.

Tiger Woods?

Is that Tiger Woods lining up a PGA Tour-winning Eagle putt? No. That is Madamoiselle Nicolina lining up his/her fourth put for a triple bogie on the 11th hole of a par-three in St. Albert, Alberta!!!!

O-week Golf Tourney

The first week of September is known as Orientation Week for the new first year med students. No, not "sexual orientation", but rather orientation to medicine and the campus/city. Had this been an excercise to sort out "sexual orientation" we would have confused some med students with our outfits. Because we were seriously hot! This pic is from the Costume Golf Tournement.

Needless to say we won the costume competition. In fact they just handed us the prize as soon as we showed up. When we heard "costume contest" we thought "crazy crazy costumes" but apparently everybody else thought that meant "wear a funny hat". It was crazy fun though. Not the best golfing attire however: nowhere to hold tees, and the stockings tend to rip easily (as Brian noticed when he totally ripped his the first time he pulled them on).

The best part of the afternoon was actually the car ride over to the golf course. We had to drive along the highway. So just try to imagine 6 french maids (5/6 are male) jammed in a tiny car with only 5 seats. We were also waving/winking and yelling at every trucker we passed. We got some mighty strange looks. And also some winks back. Some people just sped up so they didn't have to look at us any more. Heheheheh. 

Ultimate Frisbee

This year's Ultimate Frisbee season went by really quickly. It was a ton of fun, as usual. I was in a second year med intramural rec team with about 15 friends, and this year we managed to win a couple of games (unlike last year...). We lost the first playoff game 7-3, and worst of all, we lost to the first year med team!! Considering the first year meds have beat us in every single other sport, I suppose its not that bad. They must have changed the medicine admissions criteria this year as to weed out the uncoordinated biochem students like us!