Star Wars on my Mind

Electrical banana. Is gonna be a sudden craze. Electrical banana. Is bound to be the very next phase. They call it mellow yellow.

For some reason my ambition got the best of me and when Dr. Sawhney asked what I wanted out of this rotation I replied, “I want to be treated like an intern/resident and manage all the patients on the floor and in the OR.” On Monday night, I paged him and told him the results of a study for a patient. He explained, “Write the orders. I don’t expect to hear from you again tonight, so I will assume you have done it right. You are an intern now.” That scared the shit out of me.

After pre-rounding yesterday morning, a friend from school caught up with me and we had breakfast together. 2006 was not kind to him in the relationship department either. He and his girlfriend of six years ended on a rather sour note. In October the two of us were downtown at Ford and would discuss our similar situations. Yesterday morning he told me he was going to the MSU/OSU basketball game this Saturday with a woman he has been dating for two months. He said she loves pro basketball and is not into the college game as much. The two then had a debate concerning which was better: college or professional basketball. If those are the kind of conversations you have with your girlfriend, then you are in great shape. I’m really happy for him.

The cruel irony of Fuck DJ Volumes 3, 4 and 4.5 sank in this weekend. Although I completed the mixed discs, the CD player in my car is broke. On Sunday I was left with no option but to listen to the BGSU v. EMU women’s basketball game on NPR, 89.1 WEMU.

Sometimes at lunch if I’m eating alone I see how many different ways I can draw a cube on a napkin. Last night at dinner I was able to do it eight different ways. Depending on what you define as different you could do it a lot of different ways.

A lot of people called me on Sunday. I called a couple too.

Dave and I recently had a Star Wars discussion. Besides Chewbacca and R2-D2, who else in Star Wars knew Luke was not as good of a Jedi as his predecessors? I bet there were a couple of Strom Troopers who were there from the beginning who would say to each other, “This dude thinks he is a Jedi, but I remember when Jones got his head chopped off by Yoda and he didn’t even know Yoda was paying attention. Shit, this new guy, what’s his name, Luke?, he can’t even use his Jedi powers to get a X-Wing fighter out of a swamp by Yoda’s place. Or that’s what I hear at least.”

And do you think the Emperor distilled any positive rumors about the Jedis? What if a Storm Trooper was like, “Man, I don’t know about these rebels. What if that Luke guy becomes as powerful as the old Jedis? I heard one of those guys deformed the Emperor.” I bet Darth Sidious would laugh and say, “Yeah, then I jacked his ass with lightning and yelled ‘unlimited power!’ Oh yeah, and I orchestrated Order 66 that killed all the Jedi. Yeah, they were real powerful.” Then he’d probably kill that Storm Trooper.

Who would win in a trilogy battle: the original Star Wars trilogy or the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Could Indiana Jones pull an upset and beat one of those two? What about Back to the Future? Is Harrison Ford the all-time best trilogy actor? Could Han Solo handle Indiana Jones? These are important questions.