Rural Rounds

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 Wil...

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.

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 whi...