March 14, 2006

• Weird Thing I Saw Today: Actually, I first noticed it last week, but this is the first time I remembered to mention it. On my way home from MUO, I go through downtown Toledo, and there’s a billboard that I pass that has a picture of three kids that looks like it’s from the ‘60s or something. The only thing written on the billboard is “Ugly kids.” That’s it. I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean. And no, there’s no follow-up billboard on the next block or anything.

  
  

   

  
  

  Apparently the guy who hosted Press Your Luck died this morning in a plane crash. I used to watch reruns of that show all the time when I was a kid. The USA network used to show game shows from about noon to 5 PM (Not sure of the actual times, but I’m pretty positive that the last game show of the day ended at 5 because I remember watching it mostly at my grandma’s house and the last game show coincided with my mom picking me up after she got off work). I believe Scrabble was one of the shows, and there was some short-lived game show where you had to decipher a phrase written in license-plate style (or something like that), and I think they also had episodes of both $25,000 Pyramid and $100,000 Pyramid, but Press Your Luck was definitely my favorite (and it was also the last game show of the day). I haven’t watched it continuously like that in years, but every once in a while I’ll catch an episode on Game Show Network if nothing else is on.

  
  

   

  
  

  Today at MUO I helped Chris (the “Media Specialist”) videotape a seminar on medical ethics, which sounds really boring unless you consider the fact that the last seminar I had to work on was about training residents to be good teachers, and the two before that were from the Occupational Therapy department, and they dealt with ways of gathering information for needs assessment (and between those two seminars I had to watch three hours worth of the subject). Next to that, medical ethics is downright exciting. There is, however, an odd thing that happened in the needs assessment seminar. During the seminar, the speaker talked about how she hosted a community forum in Cleveland that focused on assessing the occupational therapy needs in the gay and lesbian community. Um, maybe I’m missing something, but how is occupational therapy gonna be different for a gay person than it is for a straight person? At any rate, I got free pizza today.

  
  

   

  
  

  Anyways, that’s pretty much it for now.

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