A trip through Google images

I stole this from Scott's blog, who got it from someone else. I found it entertaining so I decided to repost it here.

Instructions: Use the picture you like best from the first (no clicking around for 44 pages) page of the search results on Google Image, and then answer the following questions.

1. The city and state of the town you grew up, no quotation marks.













Ah West Plains Missouri. Small town at it's finest.

2. The town where you currently reside.

Columbia, MO lies between St. Louis and Kansas City on I-70. It is the home of the University of Missouri Tigers, the famous Broadway Diner, open 11 p.m. to 11 a.m., and the recently released Quinn Snyder.

3. Your name, first and last, no quotation marks
















You may think that I'm a Beatles fan for posting this. I like the Beatles, but really I post this because my dad was a sargeant in the army. That's right, Sargeant Peppers.

4. Your grandmother's name

Willa Ottersbach didn't turn anything up, so I went with Willa. It looks like Willa is a fearsome RPG game character, from what I found.

5. Your favorite food

This is what I call the feast of a king.

6. Your favorite drink












It does a body good. Strong teeth and bones.

7. Your favorite smell













The smell of the woods in the spring, with a crackling cedar campfire. The smell of the earth, especially after a rainstorm.

8. Your favorite song

























I like to hum or sing hymns to myself. This is one I sing pretty dang often.

I'm Getting Published!

SERUM MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION AND ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION ARE ELEVATED BY HORMONAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE BUT NOT BY EXERCISE-ASSOCIATED MENSTRUAL DISORDERS IN PHYSICALLY ACTIVE YOUNG WOMEN
Hinton PS, Rector RS, Peppers JE, Imhoff RD, Hillman LS
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

You can index me in PubMed after June 2006.

Studying 0 - Building stuff - 1

So I've been away for a while now. Last week was our spring break (yeah, we had a week off a couple of weeks ago too. Yeah, I went to Guatemala that week with a group of Christian medical students. Yeah, it was great), and I went home to see family for the first part of the week. Once back in Columbia however, I was living it up and not studying at all.

I had brought back my hunting rifle from home, so me and my friend Ben went out to Finger Lakes park to shoot. He had a stake target with spinning ping targets. It was made of ~ 1/2" steel plates. He pinged it several times with his Sig Sauer 9 mm. Unfortunately for Ben, my .308 can shoot right through 1/2" steel. Unfortunately I didn't know that before I shot a hole in his brand new target.

The rest of the week was spent going running, playing basketball, making amazing homemade pizza, and building a headboard. I built this with my friend Aaron's help. Now, I've got a sweet headboard where before was plain white wall. Quite an improvement if I say so myself. Unfortunately, I haven't started much studying since then.