I ADMIT: I have my (MANY) QUIRKS.

…
I'm PROUD to ADMIT that I'm a "MAJOR-NERD"!

What's UP with "Society"'s MIS-informed ASS-umption that "unbelievable-BEAUTY = LACK OF intelligence"?!

Since I am "RIDICULOUSLY-smart" … even WITH a "Traumatic Brain-Injury", are y'all IMPLYING that I'm UN-attractive?!

(… I am APPALLED!)

My mom--about ME:
"He's just A LITTLE eccentric.  … Most GENIUSES ARE."
(--Cosmo Kramer, 'Seinfeld', about the Soup-Nazi')
MY response to my mom:
"Coming from a FELLOW-valedictorian, that's QUITE a COMPLIMENT!"


(… The fact that I--ALL MENTALLY--"balance HER checkbook" from time-to-time JUST shows that "EVERYONE has his/her "SPECIALTY"/"area of EXPERTISE".
PRE-accident, I WAS a bit of a "jack of ALL trades".  I HAD an EXTENSIVE knowledge of MATH, languageS, martial arts, ALL sports, bio-physics, spelling, etc.)
NOW, what with my FORGETFULNESS, I really only STILL "DOMINATE" … math.
(… Since it's DIFFICULT for me to CONSISTENTLY, LEGIBLY write, my MENTAL-math skills have actually … IMPROVED!)

…
I--almost--HAFTA have BALANCE in ALL that I do.
BLOG-Creator--about ME:
"Bring 'BALANCE' to 'the Force'--against your brain, then TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT you will achieve."
My response:
"I appreciate the 'Master Yoda'-inspired MOTIVATIONAL-compliment, … you SICK, 'Star Wars'-OBSESSED weirdo!

…
Personally, I REALLY ENJOY "PLAYING" with NUMBERS!
(… It RELAXES me.)
(… ESPECIALLY, since I NO LONGER do much ACTUAL writing, it's ALL in my HEAD!)

…
I'm QUITE PARTICULAR/STRINGENT about TIMING!
Since I kinda HAFTA depend on OTHERS, I feel that the ONLY thing I really CAN control is MY "READINESS".
I DESPISE REPETITIVE-truancy!

...
I've GOTTA develop a PLAN/PROTOCOL/STRATEGY, before I undertake … ANYTHING!
'Tis mainly that I ABHOR NOT knowing what I'm doing!
As a GORMER Boy Scout, I kinda "took the MOTTO to HEART":
"Be PREPARED."

…
As a DIRECT-result of my EXTENSIVE planning/preparing, I kinda find "LEADERSHIP" comes relatively "NATURALLY".

…
THUS, I CONSTANTLY devise MATH-problems (for TUTORING) & 'Jiujitsu'-techniques (for CO-teaching.).
'Por ejemplo', THIS evening my 'Sempai' demonstrated MY LATEST 'jujitsu'-technique to a "CHORUS of PRAISES" from my "Professor", my 'Sempai' & NUMEROUS other black belts … in the ADULTS'-class!

...
"'FOLLOWING''s NOT really MY 'STYLE'."
(--Tony Stark, 'Iron Man')


(Continued in a LATER blog-post)



P.S. I DO--suspiciously FREQUENTLY--CORRECT my mom's GRAMMAR, … and she's a SPEECH-Pathologist!
Alas, she IS retired (RECENTLY), so MAYBE ~35 YEARS of training can just "FLY the COOP" … like THAT!  (… I snap my fingers.)
(I'm WHISPERING.)  Or, maybe it's SENILITY.  SSSHHH!



...

UN-fortunately, I've made QUITE A FEW … BAD decisions/choices.

… By admitting that, I'm

"freeing my mind to do what it does BEST:

ENLIGHTEN & AMAZE."

(--Dr. Shelton Cooper, 'The Big Bang Theory')

… Speaking of "AMAZING", I woke up at ~4:34 this morning, 'cuz "Nature was CALLING".  IMMEDIATELY AFTER I "WALKED" to "relieve myself"--via urine--'en "mi JUAN"'.  After my "Secretory-''Soiree''", I FINISHED devising/creating my FINAL math-TEST of ~25 questions for my "tutEE".

… (WARNING:)
I only INCLUDE this event, 'cuz it's WONDERFUL-evidence that my bodily-SENSES are--FINALLY--returning!
~17 minutes AFTER completing said "Trek To Titanium 'Toilette'" ("Alliteration aside."), I felt this "internal-URGE/-RUMBLING" to try AGAIN!
SO, "long-srory --> SHORT": I SUCCESSFULLY "Deposited/Dumped the Don's Dukee" (Siiigh, MORE alliteration) … IN my TOILET.
… But, the GREAT partS were that I could (SEMI-)SMELL my "DROPPINGS"!
(… "I am NOT an 'ANIMAL'!  … I am a HUMAN-being!"
--'Elephant Man')
ALSO, my Plethora/Plentitude of Poop-Particles (A.J., STOP with the ALLITERATION!) were MOSTLY SOLID.
YAY for not NECESSARILY NEEDING "medicinal-HELP" with my SOLIDIFICATION of my "stools".

…
So, going BACK to "my CASCADE of SUB-par judgments", …
I'll--QUICKLY, UN-ashamedly, APOLOGETICALLY--apologize for my SUB-standard "performance(S)" & CORRECT my "strategy" for FUTURE efforts.

…
Thus, I "OWN-UP" to my ERRORS.
'Por ejemplo, cuando' I HIRED my PREVIOUS "Sunday-caregiver" … for THIS reason, I didN'T realize that I HAD TO inform POTENTIAL employEEs NOT to make IN-sensitive, UN-professional comments!
Even though he is/was TOTALLY/COMPLETELY at-FAULT for making ME--his BOSS--VERY UNCOMFORTABLE, I--PARTIALLY--blame MYSELF for NOT "seeing" THIS "AWKWARDNESS" earliER.

… "HINDSIGHT's 20/20."
Regardless, I caN'T "SNIFF-OUT" HOMOSEXUALITY!
(… CURRENTLY, I can-NOT smell … AT ALL!)
...
HIM: "Perhaps I should've said ''I'm STRAIGHT.'' Then, I'd hold up a BIG 'SARCASM'-sign!"
ME: (SOCKED & EXASPERATED) "You have a 'SARCASM'-sign?!"
(--Sheldon, 'The Big Bang Theory')

…
Now, I've NEVER had a "PROBLEM" with "members of the HOMOSEXUAL-community".
But, when a "BRAH" (= "GAY dude") "works" THAT "CLOSE" to ME while NOT telling me his "gender-preference SECRET" AND making LEWD-implications … ABOUT ME, "THAT doN'T fly!"
(… Also, I do NOT exactly "SWING THAT WAY"!)


To balance ALL this "NEGATIVE-energy", I've accomplished a--metaphorical--"TON" of EXEMPLARY/HONORABLE feats in the
ACADEMIC (high school VALEDICTORIAN & "Ivy League"-alumnus),
ATHLETIC (martial arts & wrestling),
OCCUPATIONAL (Petroleum-Distribution Engineer & "Martial Arts"-Instructor),
SOCIAL (MANY trustworthy, respectful FRIENDS)
& PSYCHOLOGICAL (OVERCOMING this MONUMENTAL "hurdle").



...

ALAS! I HAFTA do what I MUST!

…

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("Copy & Paste".)

(… I do what I MUST!)

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…
"TRYING to UNDERSTAND the BEHAVIOR of SOME (STUPID) people is like
TRYING to SMELL the NUMBER 9."
(--'Sesame Street')

(… SOMETIMES, it's just NOT worth the EFFORT.)

I ENJOY HELPING people!
But, IF they REFUSE to "examine the issue" DIFFERENTLY, then PERHAPS 'tis a "LOST cause".
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…
"It's okay to NOT be perfect.
It's okay to make MISTAKES.
It's okay to DO something you wish you hadN'T done.
… If we doN'T DO those things, we NEVER 'grow'."
(--Dawn Stanyon)

((… LIFE … ESPECIALLY mine--POST-accident … is a "GAME" … of "Trial & Error".
THEN, we MUST LEARN … from said ERRORS.)
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…
"FORGIVE others … NOT because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve PEACE."
(--Jonathon Lockwood Huie)

(… I've made COUNTLESS MIS-judgments.  But, I shaN'T BLAME--ONLY--my "T.B.I.")
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…
The BAD news is
"Time FLIES.
… The GOOD news is
YOU'RE the "PILOT".

(… MY "LIFE-trip" WAS going FANTASTICALLY/IDEALLY!
But, ~6 5/6 years ago, I embarked on a LONG "venture" through a TREACHEROUS, LIFE-THREATENING "STORM" that I'm STILL trying to "ESCAPE"!)
______________________________________________________________________________
…
WHATEVER is GOOD for the/your/MY SOUL,
DO that.

(… Although I KNOW I HAFTA--SOMETIMES--be "SELFISH" & think of MY recovery/rehabilitation, I STILL care VERY MUCH about helping OTHERS.)

(… ME, to THEM: "You doN'T 'bring me DOWN'.  … I prefer to look at it as I prefer to look at it as
I 'pull you UP'."
--Sheldon, 'The Big Bang Theory')
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…
"One isn't necessarily BORN with COURAGE.
But, one IS BORN with POTENTIAL.
With-OUT COURAGE, we canNOT practice any OTHER 'virtue' with CONSISTENCY.
We caN'T be KIND, TRUE, MERCIFUL, GENEROUS or HONEST."
(--Maya Angelou)
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…
Wizard of OZ to ME:
"You've ALWAYS had the 'POWER', my dear.
You just had to learn it for YOURSELF."

(… I'm ALWAYS KEEN-on/READY-to … LEARN!)

(… Evidently, I am STILL a … NERD!)



...

"One thing you caN'T take away: … I AM ... (a VARIATION of) 'Iron Man'."

…

Yes, I have (& HAD) ALOTTA (SURGICALLY-installed/-implanted) METAL "IN my body"/"ON my person":

-- THREE "pegs & bolts" in my LEFT shoulder
-- TWO "bolts" in my LEFT knee

(PREVIOUSLY … & since--SURGICALLY--removed)
-- TWO "bolts" in my LEFT hip
-- a "plate" in my RIGHT forearm
-- a "bolt" in my LEFT BIG-toe
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… In ADDITION to my EXTERNAL "marks", I ALSO have NUMEROUS, INTERNAL/NON-visible injurIES/"SCARS":

-- a "Traumatic Brain-Injury"
-- a (SUPPOSEDLY "TEMPORARILY") REJECTED marriage-proposal
-- a MAJOR, DAMAGING BLOW to my pride & independence …
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…
LIKE Mr. Tony Stark ('Iron Man'), I am a "COMMUNITY-person":
I like to "give-BACK" to the people.

As SAD, PITIFUL & UNFORTUNATE as my life may SEEM, I'm SURE/POSITIVE there are MANY(?) people LESS-fortunate/-BLESSED(?) as I.
Thus--Ergo--Therefore--Hence, I
-- TEACH martial arts (Karate AND 'Jiujitsu')
-- MATH-TUTOR
-- SEMI-CHARGING" landlord
-- CONSTANT PARTY-host
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…
(WORD-play:)
I do NOT charge a FEE, when I help folks.  ('Fe' is the chemical-symbol for "Iron".)
Last time I CHECKED, (I glance at & feel my EX-ternal genitalia.), I am a "MAN".)



...

I'm VERY … emotional!

…
"ANGER is a very GOOD thing, … if you 'CHANNEL' it the RIGHT way … in a very, very POSITIVE way."
(--University of Minnesota WRESTLING Coach J Robinson)

"FOCUS on the things that YOU can CONTROL."
(--J Robinson)

"Work ethic. Unparalleled support. 100 percent effort."
(--University of Nebraska WRESTLING coach Mark Manning)  
_____________________________________________________________________________
… Seeing as I USED TO be an INTENSE & DETERMINED "AMATEUR"-WRESTLER, I know ALL-ABOUT "FOCUS", "GREAT-EFFORT" & "COMMITMENT".
(… ALL of high school AND college)
(… Only, after my accident, I experienced a DIFFERENT type/kind of "COMMITMENT".)
(… TOO SOON for the JOKES about MY MENTAL-INstability?
Judges?! 
…
Yes?
…
Oh, to HELL with y'ALL!  If I can-NOT JOKE about MY OWN--SUPPOSED--mental-WEAKNESSES, then HOW will I … EVER … IMPROVE?!
('LAUGHTER' is the BEST 'medicine'.")
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…
So, I REALLY ENJOY … HUMOR.
I NEED it!
IT (COMEDY) allows me to "FUN-ction"/"operate" MORE effectively!
During my (MANY GREAT) workouts @ "NeuroFit 360" AND my "UPPER body" gym-sessions, I HAFTA "crack jokes" AND make WITTY comments in order to MAXIMIZE my "output"/EFFORT!
_____________________________________________________________________________
… 
My BEST female-FRIEND--to ME--about my WALKING:
"Are you TRYING to NOT be GOOD at this?!"
MY response: "Naw, it just comes NATURAL(LY)."
(--'A Walk to Remember')
(… Oh, SWEET I-rony … that I used the film-TITLE in THIS sense!)

ME: "P.S., m'lady, 'my Spider-sense detects' A BIT of SARCASM.
P.P.S. I am NOT Spider-man.  … Though I AM rather 'AMAZING'! 
… 'Am I wrong?  AM … I … WRONG?!'"
(--Walter Sobchak, 'The Big Lebowski')
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… I have this "SICK", INTRINSIC "PHOBIA" of BAD grammar.
Even if said IN-correct diction is in a QUOTE (adding the "LY"), I HAFTA make it RIGHT!
((… I FEAR that the MIS-usage of (PROPER) diction is a "POOR" reflection on/of ME … & MY INTELLIGENCE.)) 
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… 
I am "TRUE to MY WORD"!
When I say, "I WILL WALK again", I EMPHASIZE the "WILL", 'cuz my DETERMINATION makes SAID "action" NOT a HYPOTHETICAL/"IF-question".  'Tis MORE a matter of "WHEN".
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…
Despite my NOT "openly"-DISPLAYING ALL of my EMOTIONS, I still "FEEL" … A LOT!
'Tis NOT some "MACHO-issue", in which I have this NEED to convey a MANLY-attitude of "NO-fearS".  I'd HATE to BLAME my "T.B.I.", but--PSYCHOLOGICALLY/NEUROLOGICALLY--said MENTAL-"detriment" simply does NOT ALLOW me to "FILL my TEAR-ducts with a (NATURAL-)liquid".
_______________________________________________________________________________
… Ergo, my HEART … "CRIES"!
_______________________________________________________________________________
… Speaking of MY … SADNESS, I haveN'T been (METAPHORICALLY) "ALONE", since WAY BEFORE my accident/injurIES.  So, having a HELPFUL, PRO-meeting housemate is VERY BENEFICIAL to/for my PSYCH & SOCIABILITY!
(… "Turn a NEGATIVE into a POSITIVE.")

...

(METAPHORICAL) "'SHIT' happens."

…

'Tis IMPORTANT to ADMIT your/our FAULTS.  
-- ONLY when I'm VERY/REALLY focused & frustrated, I TEND TO get rather SELFISH.

-- I AWOKE at ~6:08 am. 
(DAMN caregivers are so--INEXPLICABLY--LOUD when SWITCHING SHIFTS!)

-- … I played LOTSA "Minesweeper", 'cuz I didN'T have much ELSE to so.
(… NOW--at 7:39 am, I'm gonna TRY to "go BACK 'dormirse'".)

-- At ~9:15 am, I "felt the 'URGE'/'RUMBLE' to "TEST" the LITERAL-application of the TOPIC.  
(… SUCCESS!)

-- My GOOD friend … & CURRENT housemate "bailed me out" of an UN-fortunate predicament at ~9:30 this MORNING.
My USUAL "escort" to my (KIDS') Karate-class was BUSY with OTHER "commitments".
(… PLUS, my NEW weekend-caregiver has NEVER NEITHER driven my van NOR safely placed me DOWN on the MATTED-floor.
(… My buddy BOTH drove my van AND set up my DynaVox.)

-- CONTRARY to POPULAR belief:
"I AM fast.  To give you a REFERENCE-point, I'm somewhere between a snake & a MONGOOSE … and a PANTHER."
(--Dwight "Fart" Schrute,'The Office')

-- ''I can't go out and be a hero if I don't get the opportunity,"
((--Minnesota Wild NHL (hockey) goalie, after his 
PHENOMENAL game in last night's 4-1 WIN … "on the ROAD"))
(… Thus, I ALWAYS … first, TRY a task.  IF I do NOT "succeed", THEN I MAY ask for "HELP".)

-- MY INNER-monologue (to 2007-ME):
"I doN'T want yo' SUFFERING!
I doN'T want yo' FUTURE!"
(--YOUNG Professor X to Wolverine, 'X-Men: Days of Future Past')
(… I DID have a VERY IN-auspicious start to my MID-20s.)

… 
"Just 'cuz someone 'STUMBLES', 'LOSES his WAY', doesN'T that he is 'lost' FOREVER."
(--YOUNG Professor X, 'X-Men: Days of Future Past')
(… As "CRAPPY" as MY life SEEMS right NOW, my FUTURE CERTAINLY does NOT HAFTA ALWAYS be that ABYSMAL!)

….
"There's NO SUCH THING as 'LUCK' … only 'good SCIENCE'."
(--Walter O'Brien, 'Scorpion')
(… I am--by NO MEANS--SUPER-stitious.  
MAYBE I'm only "STITIOUS".)

…
"Actually, by NOT over-thinking, research shows that the LESS-intelligent handle emotions BETTER."
(--Amy Farrah-Fowler, 'The Big Bang Theory')
(… Thus, I MUST REALLY SUCK at "DEALING"/COPING with my feelings!)



...

"Second-guessing"?!

…
During my MATH-tutoring, I told my "tutEE":
"I see you're filled with DOUBT, … crowded with UNCERTAINTY.
(--The Oracle, 'The Matrix Revolutions')

ABSENT-MINDEDLY, one of my "LESS THAN even SOMEWHAT intelligent" employEES … ERASED a note/message that I had a DOCTOR's appointment THIS MORNING!
(AAARRRGGGHHH!  AUDIBLE-SIGH)

… Nonetheless, I FOUND-OUT about said visit & WENT to an OUTSTANDING-"report"!

…
GENERALLY, I doN'T have TIME to "CONTEMPLATE my POTENTIAL-decisions".
(… This LACK OF "Guess & Check" is LIKELY due to my NECESSARY "EXTRA PREPARATORY-time" NEEDED by ME for ANYTHING I do!)

… Then AGAIN, HHHMMM.
"If you are not willing to LEARN,
no one can HELP you.
If you are DETERMINED to LEARN,
no one can STOP you."
(--'Minnesota WRESTLING')
(… I used to wrestle … A LOT.)

…
I haven't been wearing my "Walk-Aid" much (AT ALL) in the last few weeks.
The (ELECTRIC-)shock it gives my LEFT knee got rather … IRRITATING.
I HOPE doesN'T get UPSET that I NO LONGER wear/use it.
(… "Look at the BRIGHT side": I doN'T NEED the "nerve WAKER-UPPER" anymore.  My BRAIN has ADAPTED to the NECESSARY leg-LIFT, & NOW does the WORK itself.
YAY!)

…
TOO OFTEN I'll be HESITANT to follow some of my trainer's INSTRUCTIONS at "NeuroFit 360".
I--QUICKLY, MENTALLY--"run through" the PHYSICS & MY BODY-MECHANICS for such a move.
I APOLOGIZE for (almost) INSTANTLY "PROCESSING" the "NUMBERS"/"SCIENCE" of said "EXERCISES".
(… Actually, I'm sorry I'm NOT sorry!)



...

"ALWAYS trust your INSTINCTS."

… (--Narrator, 'Beauty and the Beast')

…
'Tis been toughER to TOTALLY/COMPLETELY "listen to MYSELF", … since my DEVASTATING/UNFORTUNATE accident.
(  : (  )
(… I said "toughER"--as in "MORE difficult".  But, by NO means, is it "IMPOSSIBLE"!)
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… 'Por ejemplo', I devised/designad one … no, TWO EXEMPLARY/"DAMN-GOOD"/"STANDUP" 'jiujitsu' ('GROUND-fighting') (… So, NO pun IN-tended.) techniques that I WILL demonstrate/CO-teach either during a Thursday- or a Saturday-class.

… Or, PERHAPS it's "GOOD ENOUGH"/APPLICABLE for BOTH the KIDS' AND ADULTS' classes.
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…
(Christopher Robin of 'Winnie the Pooh' to ME:)

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

Occasionally, I'll EVEN surprise MYSELF with what I ACCOMPLISH during my workouts at "NeuroFit 360".

Rafiki of 'Lion King' "chimes IN" with

"The past can hurt but the way I see it you can either run 

from or learn from it." 

I've made NUMEROUS/COUNTLESS MISTAKES in "MY time" (ESPECIALLY since that DREADED day--July 6th, 2008!  NOW, I've "learned my LESSON"
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…
"I'm a VERY SMART man.  Don't you think if I were WRONG, I'd KNOW it?"
(--DR. Sheldon Cooper, 'The Big Bang Theory')

(… Ergo, I'm QUICK--NOW--to ADMIT my ERRORS.
… I can only HOPE/WISH that SOME of my employEEs would "follow-suit" & OCCASIONALLY "swallow their pride".)
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…
"A PESSIMIST sees the DIFFICULTY in every OPPORTUNITY.
An OPTIMIST sees the OPPORTUNITY in every DIFFICULTY."
(--Sir Winston Churchill)

(… I created a SLIGHT variation:
"A PESSIMIST searches for the PROBLEMS in each & every POSSIBILITY.
An OPTIMIST searches for the POSSIBILITIES in each & every PROBLEM.")

(… Can I get an "AMEN!"?)
(… 'KUDOS' to Sir Churchill.)
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…
So, I watched the GREAT movie, 'Con Air', this afternoon.
I'm gonna HAFTA agree with "Cameron Poe"'s ACCIDENTAL-killing (manslaughter), while DEFENDING his WIFE.
Despite "Poe"'s receiving a LONG "prison-sentencing", he SAFELY & LEGALLY "escapes" BACK into the "OUTSIDE-L/EGAL-world".
With MY hands--PREVIOUSLY--registered as "LETHAL WEAPONS" (cuz of my TWO black belts in Karate), I have a SIMILAR (physical/"technical"/"POTENTIALLY harmful") background.
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…


P.S. As a "COUNTER-point", APPROXIMATELY (~)20 minutes AFTER I called my dojo to REPORT my ABSENCE, it STOPPED raining.
(… SHUCKS!)


P.P.S. "'Tis better to be SAFE than SORRY."



...

NUMBERS/MATH actually RELAX me. (ZZZZZZZZ)

…
As I've previously stated,
"EVERYONE has/her OWN 'specialty'/'COMFORT-zone'.
MINE's NUMBERS & MATH."
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…
My "MATH-tutEE" to ME: "Do YOU have a PHOTOGRAPHIC-memory?"
ME: "Naw.  I just 'SEE' it."

(--Skylar (HER) & Will (ME), 'Good Will Hunting'))

So, YES, I earned a PERFECT-score on BOTH the MATH-section of the SAT & the "Statistics-SAT II".
_______________________________________________________________________________
…
DAMN my "SUPERSONIC-hearing"(--my mom)!
I--ALL TOO FREQUENTLY--HEAR one of my BETTER employEEs SLEEPING (SNORING!) in my BIG house!
((… Said "CULPRIT" is APPROXIMATELY (~) 120 FEET = ~40 YARDS = ~36.58 METERS = ~1,440 INCHES & TWO sets of CLOSED/SHUT doors away.))
(… Granted, he has a MAJOR nasal-illness, so I MIGHT be MISTAKEN … given that I doN'T actually SEE him.  … "But, it's the PRINCIPLE!"--ME, in grad-school after a 'B+')
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… I doN'T MIND the SLEEPING.  EVERYONE's gotta/NEEDS sleep!
I doN'T wanna be a "DICK"/JERK.  It's just that IF the SLEEPING occurs, while I'm TRYING TO sleep, then I've GOTTA tell you--POLITELY--to "SHUT UP" or
"WAKE UP" or
"Adjust your positioning".
______________________________________________________________________________
… PLUS, isn't this a "JOB"?!
I KNOW it's NOT the most EXCITING ACTION-packed occupation.  But, I am PAYING THEM to "be at my EVERY beck & call".
______________________________________________________________________________
…
So, the IDIOTIC/FOOL-ish/IGNORANT/NEGLIGENT did SOMETHING RIGHT, when it sought ADVICE from the TELEVISION show, 'NUMB3RS':

(FEDERAL representatives to ME:)
"'Statistically, you're 'DEAD' now.  You understand what that means?'  Your car COMPLETELY flipped-over on a BUSY highway, and you were EJECTED-OUT of your automobile.  You suffered SEVERE brain-damage … as well as a SLEW of OTHER injuries.  'The fact that you SURVIVED is an ANOMALY, … & it's unlikely to be the outcome of a SECOND such encounter.'"
(--'NUMB3RS')
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…
("Cue the broken record.")
I had--YET ANOTHER--VERY PRODUCTIVE/ENCOURAGING (LEG-, TRICEP--, SHOULDER-, BACK-, TRUNK- & AB-) workout today at "NeuroFit 360"!
…
I did 7.5 minutes (0.125 an hour) (450 seconds) on the "I-Care" (machinized "WALKER"), FOUR sets of 15 FULL sit-ups, TWO sets of 12 FULL INVERTED-situps & 15 sidearm-pulls of a 10-pound weight-machine.
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… I actually SAID. "Aaaaand, 'cue the broken record'" to my SPEECH-Therapisr today, AFTER she AGAIN complimented my SPEAKING-cogency, TONGUE-movement & BREATH-control.
(… I PRACTICE my tongue-DEXTERITY everyday by ROTATING it CLOCKWISE 15 times & COUNTER-clockwise 15 MORE "cycles".)



...

"I guess some birds are just NOT meant to be caged."

… "Their feathers are just too beautiful."(--'The Shawshank Redemption') 
"Red" (actor, Morgan Freeman, in 'Shawshank') figuratively/metaphorically expresses how I feel about being in a wheelchair.
(... The quote is INSPIRATIONAL/MOTIVATIONAL for my "walking" in Physical Therapy.) 

... 
"I'm back where I started--with three stacks of HIGH SOCIETY."(--'Rounders')
(… The preceding statement is A TAD BIT PRE-emptive.  But, it WILL happen.)

… 
I GREATLY DESIRE to "FLY"--via airplane--with a FRIEND (or MULTIPLE) to visit my brother ('mi hermano') in Turkey ('Turkiye') (pronounced 'TOOR-kee-YEH').  'Tis a SPECTACULAR country!  Visitors just would DEFINITELY NEED a companion who's FAMILIAR with the LANGUAGE, CULTURE & CUSTOMS (like … ME)!

…
THAT'll go on my "BUCKET-List":
"Travel to Turkey--with friend(S)--to visit my brother … for only a SHORT visit!

…
"Ask, & you SHALL receive."  (Part I)
DESPITE my CONTINUING improvements/progress, I asked my psycho-neurologist IF she COULD "see me" more FREQUENTLY than ONCE-a-MONTH.  
I appreciate the "meetings" as an opportunity for me to "show-OFF" my CONTINUING progress (in "WALKING" & SPEAKING), share/tell my NUMEROUS "tales", and "VENT" my--SEEMINGLY--"ENDLESS" issues/problems.

…
(Part II)
I emailed a couple friends to find-out IF they'd--EVENTUALLY--wanna JOIN ME in a MINI-vacation to visit my brother … in TURKEY.
… I'm "on the edge of my seat", 'cuz I have YET to receive a RESPONSE.


'Tis QUITE/VERY ODD that/how I can remember SOME things--like MATH, FOREIGN LANGUAGES, PROPER GRAMMAR, SPORTS-trivia & MANY other VARIOUS topics.  While MANY OTHER areas/memories, I doN'T recall at'ALL.  
(… Since I have MANY different "awards" in my bedroom, APPARENTLY I WAS very skilled at/in NUMEROUS areas/subjects.)


...

… (MORE BONUS, 'cuz … I CAN) 'Tis NOT wrong to ADMIT that one NEEDS help!

…
("The jury's STILL out" as to whether 'tis WEDGIE-worthy to REFER to ONESELF as "one".)

PRO
-- "NEO" of 'The Matrix' DID!
-- It makes the argument seem MORE objective & LESS biased.

CON
-- A.J. is NOT equal to "The SAVIOR of Zion".
-- ALL "BLOG-posts" STILL come from the SAME "source".



So, "the ONE" sees/meets/"confers"/"discusses 'SHIT' about A.J." with his "Psycho-therapist"/"Neuropsychologist" APPROXIMATELY once a month for "one hour EACH TIME".
DESPITE his CONTINUED (mental- AND physical-)progression,  HE thinks he could MAYBE use a LONGER "session", MERELY 'cuz his LIFE is so event-FULL lately that 'tis A LOT to "cover" in MERELY … ONE HOUR, ONCE a MONTH.

Psycho-therapist: "A.J., I doN'T MAKE the rules.  I just ENFORCE 'em."
A.J.'s RETORT: "WHAT KIND of 'Bates Motel'-operation are you runnin' here?!"
(… She rubs her RIGHT thumb & forefinger together.)
(A.J. snickers then becomes PUZZLED.)
A.J.: "Are you--GREEDILY yet LEGITIMATELY--rubbing IMAGINARY MONEY-bills?
OR, are you--MOCKINGLY--'playing the world's SMALLEST violin'?"
HER: "'MOCK-yeah-ING-yeah-BIRD-yeah-YEAH-yeah'!"
A.J.: "'You know what hurts the MOST?  It's the LACK of RESPECT.'
'TOUCHE'!  'The ONE'  just COUNTERED your quote from 'Dumb & Dumber' with one from--APPROPRIATELY-named--'Dirty Work'."



P.S. "Bates Motel" is an APPROPRIATE reference to the CLASSIC HORROR-film 'Psycho'.


P.P.S. Actually, I MAINLY like to "SHOW-OFF" my "GROWING"/INCREASING/"HEIGHTENING" PROGRESS!



...

(BONUS!) MY blogging-ORGANIZATION

…
EXPLANATION of things I've noticed:
SOMETIMES I'll blog-post by using the "TOPIC-subject" as an ONGOING-theme with the day's SUPPORT-sentences.
(… It's as if I'm writing a "DESCRIPTIVE-ESSAY".)
SOMETIMES I'll blog-post as a "PLAY-by-PLAY" of my DAY.
(… This is an indicator of my "having MORE FREE/AVAILABLE time" THAT day … USUALLY on the weekend.)
SOMETIMES I'll FORGET to "POST" my "NOTES".
(… This is an indicator of my LATE-night FESTIVITIES EXHAUSTING me!
THUS, I try to "POST" MORE/EXTRA details the NEXT day.)


...

In MY experience,, IQ > EQ

…
I "FAVOR" a person's
"Intellectual Quotient"
OVER
his/her
"Emotional Quotient".

-- When making MY decisions, I GENERALLY/USUALLY/SYSTEMATICALLY "solve" 'em LOGICALLY & MATHEMATICALLY--withOUT really considering the EMOTIONAL-consequences/ramifications.
I "weigh the PROs versus the CONs" of EACH & EVERY option, & "EVALUATE" the "VALUES".

-- The BRILLIANT show, 'Scorpion', indicates:
"If you have a HIGH 'I.Q.', then your 'E.Q.' 'suffers', and VICE-VERSA."
Now, I've ALWAYS--even PRE-accident--"operated"/functioned along the philosophy of

"NOTHING is FREE."
"It ALL comes at/for a PRICE."

(… Ergo, TECHNICALLY, I wanted to get HOME on July 6th, 2008.  It "COST" me the--TEMPORARY--use of my legs.)
(… "TEMPORARY" is DEFINITELY a NECESSARY word when describing my CURRENT "DIS-ability", 'cuz I shaN'T be DENIED my RE-walking!)

-- I had ANOTHER "f-AB-ulous" workout at "NeuroFit 360" of FOUR sets of 20 FULL-situps & "TRUNK"-strengthening on the "EZ-Stand".
(… DoN'T be FOOLED/TRICKED by the NAME.  It's quite HARD!)
((… "THAT's what SHE said!(--Michael, 'The Office')  … "OOOHHH, SCORE!"(--Doug Butabi, 'A Night at the Roxbury')
A.J., … grow UP!  (MATURITY-wise))

-- I DISPLAYED that I CONTINUE to IMPROVE my ENUNCIATION, BREATH-control & EATING … in SPEECH-Therapy.
(… It's all ANGLES:
ELEVATING or DEPRESSING my TONGUE to be more COGENT, COORDINATING my neck-positioning with WHEN to IN-hale through my NOSE & EX-hale through my MOUTH, DETERMINING where to place the SPOONFUL of FOOD in my MOUTH for easiest-SWALLOWING.)

-- AGAIN, ENIGMATICALLY, my "T.B.I." affects ONLY my (PREVIOUS) PHYSICAL-dominance and (PREVIOUS) ASTOUNDING memory & NOT my MIRACULOUS "grasp" of LOGIC, MATH, PHYSICS, SPORTS and FILM-TRIVIA.


-- "It must be HELL inside your head."
((--Leonard (my brother) to Sheldon (ME), 'The Big Bang Theory'))



...

My (NON-paying,/"from the GOODNESS of my HEART") "JOB": (SHOOTSKEE! I FORGOT to "post" this last night!)

-- My CURRENT/TEMPORARY housemate--about ME:

"I like to think that he--or SHE, we doN'T KNOW--gives people HOPE."

(--Peter Parker, 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2')

-- (Regarding my "MARTIAL ARTS"-experience of STUDYING, TRAINING & TEACHING--PRE-accident:)
"I was 'LEGIT'.
… In fact, I was 'TOO LEGIT'.
… So now, … I must 'QUIT'."
(--Rod Kimble, 'Hot Rod')
(… In FACT, I JUST mean "NOT walking in STANCES" by "QUITTING".)

-- I told my--CURRENT/TEMPORARY--housemate:
"Since I AM YOUR 'landlord' (HIS words!), but I doN'T WANT or NEED YOUR money, how 'bout--as your 'RENT'--YOU just CONSTANTLY help me be MORE SOCIAL?!"
(… He AGREED.)

-- I'm a BIT of a MIX/COMBINATION of ALL FIVE members of 'The Breakfast Club'--to VARYING degrees:
- "a BRAIN" (to the Nth-degree)
- "an ATHLETE" (I WAS a TREMENDOUS "wrestler", MARTIAL ARTIST & football-/'futbol'-player.)
- "a 'BASKET-CASE'" (I've ALWAYS been QUITE "ODD".  Now, I just have an EXCUSE.)
- "a PRINCESS" (JUST alter the GENDER, … while I CURTSY.)
- "a CRIMINAL" (I TRY to abide by the LAW/RULES.  … BUT, "what mama don't know woN'T hurt her.")

-- I offer a "MATH-tutoring service"--'por GRATIS', & I MAY HAFTA find NEW 'clientele' SOON. My "FORMER"(?) "student" is TRYING to "work-up the NERVE" to sign-up for her BIG TEST.

-- My NEW caregiver had a SLIGHTLY-better day TODAY than yesterday.

-- (My brother--to ME:) "Imagine what you could do, (A.J.), if you could go-BACK in TIME."
((--My brother (Hannibal Lector), 'Red Dragon'))


-- … ME: "If there's anything I HATE more than PITY, it's FAKE-pity … especially from a 'WALKING-(NUMSKULL)' like (one of my FORMER caregivers)."
(--BLIND woman in 'Red Dragon')

-- … REGARDLESS,
I've GOTTA be TOUGH!

-- … Should I LISTEN TO my MANY DOUBTERS?
ME (INTERNALLY--to MYSELF):
"NO, man!  You've GOTTA keep going!  What am I gonna do--QUIT?!
That's NOT an option.  You gotta KEEP ON keepin' on.  LIFE's a GARDEN.  'Dig it', & make it 'WORK' for YOU.  You NEVER give-up, man.  That's my PHILOSOPHY."
(--Joe Dirte, 'Joe Dirt')

-- PARDON my "BLASPHEMY!
But, I'm gonna HAFTA DIS-agree with the YOUNG "Charles Xavier".
(--'X-Men: Days of Future Past')
… Inorder to RE-gain

-- Now, please excuse me (at 5:00 pm). while I get ready for my dinner-PARTY.



-- …I GUESS that my FESTIVITIES & company were just TOO FUN (… They WERE!) to allow me TIME/ENERGY to "post".
((… METAPHORICAL) 'SHIT' happens."))



-- … In CONCLUSION,
((ASIDE--to MYSELF: "STOP!  Let ME do it!  Yes, I WILL acknowledge your 'POSSE'.")
Yes, y'all MIGHT say that I have LOW-grade "MULTIPLE-personalities.  But, I ALWAYS try to "put my BEST foot FORWARD".
(… METAPHORICALLY)



...

(SONG) "Don't YOU … FORGET about ME."

… (SONG continued:)
"DON'T.  DON'T.  DON'T.  DON'T!"

-- … So, APPARENTLY, I did SOMETHING … CORRECTLY/ADMIRABLY during my "ALMOST 16 years" of "martial arts"-training PRE-accident.  EVERY student--EVEN those whoM I do NOT know--respects my output/advice.
(… I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE that!)

-- … F.Y.I.: I BEGAN my "martial arts"-studies on September 8, 1992.  If my INFAMOUS/NOTORIOUS/CATASTROPHIC/DEVASTATING/HEARTBREAKING/
CATACLYSMIC/TRAUMATIC/LIFE-ALTERING (-RUINING) car-accident was on July 6, 2008, that's

(MENTAL-calculator NOISE)
(… I'm "OLD-SCHOOL" … like a ROTARY-phone.)

… 5,780 DAYS of EXEMPLARY, "STAND-UP/-OUT" "behavior, ACTIONS & techniques in self-defense.

-- I REALLY LIKE that my MOM acquired the "ON-DEMAND"-function for EACH of the FIVE televisions--& remotes--in my home.
(… THAT way I can focus ALL of my ENERGY & CONCENTRATION on my "RECOVERY".)

-- (WARNING) WHEW!  My (INTERNAL, EXCRETORY) "mind"/"system" can ALSO "tell"/"read"/"SENSE" time.  I "squeezed one -OUT" last "PREvening" in preparation for my "martial arts"-"WORK" demonstrating MY 'jiujitsu'-techniques on the mat.

-- (WARNING) "JUST to keep me 'GUESSING'/'ON my (METAPHORICAL) TOES, I "evacuated my bowels" yet AGAIN at ~8:30 this morning.

-- … With the combination of my 'jiujitsu'-demonstration & my HYPER-active EXCRETORY system … AND my CONSTANT-rounds of DAILY-activities, I could LEGITIMATELY quote the LATE Robin Williams, as the Genie in the CLASSIC (animated) film 'Aladdin':
"I have 'EXXXOOORRRCIIIZED' the 'DEMONS'!"
(… Only, I'd CLEVERLY use the homonym "exErcise" for "exOrcise".)

-- I so, so, SSSOOO enjoy GIVING-out my "little pearls-of-WISDOM" to any/ALL who seek it--whether they be about MATH or HEALTH or MARTIAL ARTS or SPORTS or FINANCES.

-- What a TERRIFIC feeling of APPRECIATION & ADMIRATION I received from the ADULTS' class today for my THREE 'Jiujitsu'-techniques!
((… The group was ~46.15% (6/13) BLACK belts.))

-- NOT all understand my "off-the-wall" (LOGICAL) thinking.
Ah, ''c'est la vie''.
(.. "COMPREHENSION is not a REQUISITE for COOPERATION."
--Morpheus, 'The Matrix Reloaded')

-- My MATH-tutEE--CONFUSEDLY/BEWILDEREDLY/CONFOUNDEDLY--asks ME, as we go over MY math-review:
"HOW did you GET that?!"
ME: "I KNOW this, because it is my PURPOSE.  … I KNOW, because I HAFTA know."
(--Serafin, 'The Matrix Revolutions')

-- "I can see that you're 'filled' with DOUBT … CLOUDED with 'UNCERTAINTY'."
(--The Architect, 'The Matrix Revolutions')

-- I KNOW I TEND to DWELL on my UNFORTUNATE/CATACLYSMIC accident.  But, as The Oracle states:
"We can-NOT 'see PAST' the decisions we doN'T understand."

-- … ENOUGH quoting 'The Matrix'-trilogy, regarding MY life, my NEW caregiver WAS having a "SOLID" day:
He--PEACEFULLY--drove me to Karate-class this LATE-morning.
He helped me maneuver INTO a nearby hotel-restrom--from my Karate-dojo--to urinate.
He's displayed an EXEMPLARY understanding of HOW I "WALK"--FROM my bed TO my toilet SIX out of SEVEN "TREKS".  (6/7 = ~85.71%)

-- … However, on ONE "WALKING-trip", he was GROSSLY-INCOMPETENT as to knowing the NEED for lights-ON & a toilet seat-UP, when I--a MALE--NEED to (STAND &) URINATE.

-- … OVERALL, if I were to GRADE his DAY-of-HELP, … I'd give him a 'B+'.
(… SSSHHH!  Y'all SHOULD know my UNFORTUNATE/INFAMOUS history with/about a 'B+'!)
(… "It's the PRINCIPLE!")

My BLOG-Creator--to/about ME:
"Do you have an opinion on EVERYTHING, … & ASSUME you're ALWAYS RIGHT?!"
(PAUSE … for effect.)
ME:
(VERY matter-of-FACTLY) "It's NOT an ASSUMPTION."
(--Leonard to Shelton, 'The Big Bang Theory')



...

"You doN'T LOSE 'memories', MERELY the ability to ACCESS them."

…
(--Toby, the WORLD-CLASS psychiatrist, 'Scorpion')

-- … This statement is SOMEWHAT encouraging.  So, I haveN'T "LOST" the thought, … as if it didN'T happen.  I've "MERELY" (SARCASTIC "Ha ha HA!") "PUZZLED" by the "memory"'s EXACT "location".
(… "Puzzled" is A BIT of POOR "diction".  "CONFOUNDED" would be BETTER.  "'CON-'" is NEGATIVE.  "-FOUND" is "-located".  So--Ergo--Thus--Therefore--Consequently, the word-ROOTS "break-down" to--LITERALLY--mean: "'UN-able to GEOGRAPHICALLY-determine'".)

-- … In the MEANTIME, I am DETERMINED … to make/"create" NEW "memories".
(… Thus, I HAFTA be more SOCIAL.)

-- PRE-accident I was NEVER hesitant to "voice MY opinion"!
((… In HINDSIGHT, I … WAS ... QUITE CONFIDENT (… almost COCKY) in my "JUDGMENT"/decision-making.))

-- … NOW, my "T.B.I." has caused a DISTURBINGLY-HIGH amount/degree of SELF-DOUBT!
((… BOO!  (  : (  ) ))
(… "I was saying 'BOO-urns'."
--Smithers, 'Simpsons')

-- I HAD TO rearrange my SATURDAY-schedule, 'cuz of my NEW employEE's IN-experience with lying/laying me down on the mat for my DEMONSTRATING my VARIOUS 'jiujitsu'-techniques.

-- … BUT, I HAD TO keep MY staff's WORK-hours SOMEWHAT/RELATIVELY EQUAL.

-- My SPEECH-Therapy was SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT from my USUAL session:
INSTEAD of my playing a COMPETITIVE & linguistically-HELPFUL game of "Scrabble"--in which I--VERBALLY/AUDIBLY--recite EVERY "played"-word--TWICE, I did NUMEROUS tongue-movement/-dexterity exercises.
(… STRANGELY, I had NO/ZERO THROAT-PAIN, but--I GUESS--my throat-muscles were just TIRED, 'cuz I REALLY STRUGGLED to be LOUD.)

-- … Also, I ate--by MOUTH--ALL of one scrambled egg.

-- I had a "f-AB-ulous" workout at "NeuroFit 360"!  I exercised ALOTTA "TRUNK-control" & crunches.

-- (WARNING) I "dropped a (SEMI-SOLID) DEUCE"--AFTER my "DINNER".

-- … WHY is it that--after EATING & an INTENSE workout--I USUALLY "evacuate my BOWELS"?
(… AAAHHH, the miracles of … SCIENCE … "STRIKE" again!)

-- My mom, about ME: "I like to think that he gives people HOPE."
(--'The Amazing Spiderman')
(… MY response: "Mom, PLEASE!  If I'm ANY "SUPERhero", I'd be WHEELCHAIR-bound, MENTALLY-"GIFTED" "Professor X" of 'X-Men'.")

-- OVERALL, "T.G.I.F."!
(… "Thank Goodness It's Friday"!)



...

… To SUM-UP yesterday's blog-"TRAGEDY" … & ADD TODAY's "WHAT-NOT":

…
Wednesday's ABRIDGED/TRUNCATED "thoughts" --

-- I had a GREAT "workout" … WITH the facility-OWNER … MAINLY-focused on my
ABS & TRUNK-CONTROL.

-- My NEW "caregiver" (JUST for Sundays) did a SPLENDID job--for a CHANGE--upon his FURTHER RE-"training.
(… But, "the jury's STILL out" on HOW MUCH of his EXEMPLARY "workmanship" was AIDED by my OTHER, more EXEMPLARY "caregiver".)

-- I concluded that RATHER THAN "post" a SUMMARY at the END-of-the-day, I'm gonna TRY TO keep a "running PLAY-by-PLAY" as my "day UNFOLDS".
(… THAT way it'd be more like a "JOB" … with "WORK-hours".)

-- I had a VERY ENCOURAGING "SPEECH-Therapy" session!  My EATING--via MOUTH--and "EEE-NUN-SEE-AY-SHUN" CONTINUE to IMPROVE!




TODAY (THURSDAY, April 16th, 2015) --

-- This MORNING I arose at 6:02 am ('cuz of my employEES' LOUD shift-change at ~6:00).

-- The "URGE/FEELING to 'RELIEVE-myself"--via URINE--"struck" at ~6:32 am.  RATHER THAN simply being LAZY & ACCEPTING my urinal that my caregiver BROUGHT TO ME, I "took the INITIATIVE" and "WALKED" 'a mi "JUAN"'.

-- I was CONTEMPLATING "what I COULD DO about my TERRIBLE LONELINESS", when I "stumbled upon" the words of a GENIUS.  His "theories" ACCURATELY sum-up MY theory on …LIFE & our LIKES/DIS-likes:

("BEAUTY is in the eye(S) of the BEHOLDER.")
"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility."--Albert Einstein 

-- … Ergo, I thought of my MATH-tutEE & hosting another "par-TAY".

-- I had a lengthy-discussion with my nurse about the CONFUSION of my VARYING schedule.  
 
-- … ALSO, I asked her IF there was ANYTHING I could do HELP/"speed-UP" my "NO LONGER NEEDING a 'peg-tube'"-process.
My nurse's reply was the (UNFORTUNATE) "story of my (RECENT) life":
"Just WAIT & SEE."

-- My MATH-tutEE "dropped by"--SURPRISINGLY.  She MAINLY wanted to tell me that she's been "too SCARED lately" to take her BIG test.  THUS, I will prepare NEW WORD-problems for her to SOLVE.
(… I DID 'em.)

-- … By COMBINING "MATH" & GREAT television show, I watched the FANTASTIC crime-drama 'NUMB3RS' EARLY this afternoon (12 - 1 pm).
((… I REALLY LIKE to TRY to figure-out the problem BEFORE "the FUZZ" (COPS) do.))

-- Upon--YET AGAIN--watching an 'X-Men'-film, I've come to realize … & ACCEPT … the FACT that I may be developing A BIT of an OBSESSION with "Professor Charles Xavier". DESPITE being in a WHEELCHAIR (like ME), he possesses EXTRAORDINARY BRAIN-POWER (like ME).
(… Walter O'Brien of 'Scorpion' would UNDOUBTEDLY consider him "MENTALLY-ENABLED" & RECRUIT him.)
(… I WISH I had Wolverine's REMARKABLE ability to "RAPIDLY SELF-HEAL"!)

-- … I ALSO watched (at 2:30 pm) the beginning of 'The Bone Collector'--before my EARLY shower.  This PHENOMENAL film "ILLUSTRATES" the NEED of WALKING-people by the "LEG-handicapped" --like "Lincoln Rhyme" & MYSELF.

-- … Is it ME/I , or does the ALL-POWERFUL human-BRAIN … COMPENSATE, when certain SENSES are A BIT "SUB-par"?
(… My LEGS doN'T work.  Thus, my ARMS & HANDS have HAD TO do MORE.
… I STRUGGLE to CONSISTENTLY write LEGIBLY.  Ergo, I do almost ALL my "calculations" IN MY HEAD.)

-- I've KNOWN me for OVER 30 YEARS (30 years, 1 week & 1 day).  PLUS, I "GET"/understand MUCH of 'Scorpion' & 'NUMB3RS'.  So, I KNOW I'm a GENIUS.
(I STUFF white-rice in my mouth.)
"See if you can guess what I am NOW."
(I SMASH-into my DISTENDED cheeks with my fists.)
"I'm a ZIT.  Get it?!"
(--Bluto)

-- "(INANIMATE-objects) are sensu-AL.  PEOPLE are sensu-OUS."
(--Mrs. Wormer)

(… I watched 'Animal House' tonight.)

-- I attended KIDS' Karate-class (as I do EVERY Thursday-"PREvening" & Saturday-morning) ONLY to VIEW.  Needless to say, I AM rather POPULAR, SKILLED & RESPECTED.  So, I VIEWED & COMMENTED-ON some 'katas' ('PRE-designed DEFENSIVE-fighting movements').

-- … I AM scheduled to CO-teach/REVIEW a few 'jiujitsu'-techniques … of MY design.

-- So, my NEW caregiver is working TONIGHT.  So, let's HOPE ALL goes WELL.  (… Fingers CROSSED)

-- … SAID employee has done WELL with TWO "urinary-TREK"s.  But, he did QUITE/VERY POORLY on the THIRD trip.
(… I NEED the light ON in order to "WALK" … with my walker!)

"SHITBALLZ!" I think I--ACCIDENTALLY--DELETED today's LONG/DETAILED "BLOG-post".

…
(I'm an … IDIOT!)

… But, TODAY (WEDNESDAY, April 15th, 2015) was a GOOD day!

"LOOKS … can be … DECEIVING."

…

Though it may APPEAR … "MINOR" or NEGLIGIBLE or FORGETTABLE, the STRONGEST muscle in the HUMAN-body is the

(DRUMROLL)

… TONGUE.

((… But. (I'm FLEXING.) "Which way's the … BEACH?!"
…
"QUIET, Biceps!  You two DOUBLE as 'EYE-CANDY'." 

(… I give MYSELF a "High-Five".))
____________________________________________________________________________
… Yesterday my SPEECH-Therapist COMPLIMENTED my ever-IMPROVING "TONGUE"-movement & -dexterity.

(… In my FREE-/SPARE-time, I'll circle my tongue--as I lick my lips--CLOCKWISE & COUNTER-CLOCKWISE.
_____________________________________________________________________________
…
I've got a VICIOUS ~6.5 inch SCAR along my LEFT-INNER shoulder.  It looks pretty DEVASTATING & PAINFUL.
HOWEVER, I LIKE to JOKE about it!
((… Ya see: ANY pain is only SPORADIC/RANDOM/IN-frequent.  While the SHOULDER (& INTERNAL-metal) make FREQUENT "noise" (OCCASIONAL "creaking-/cracking-sounds").))
______________________________________________________________________________
…
I CONTINUE to IMPROVE/INCREASE my "RANGE-of-MOTION" with my BAD/INJURED/weakER LEFT-arm/-shoulder.
______________________________________________________________________________
…
Yesterday, my SPEECH-Therapist brought-up a MUCH MIS-understood medical FACT:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2828561/The-tongue-taste-map-WRONG-Flavours-actually-perceived-neurons-brain-scientists-reveal.html

(… "Copy & Paste" the link.)

(… Being a "Biomedical Engineer", I'm INTRIGUED.)
______________________________________________________________________________
…
A few … STUPID … & OBLIVIOUS "observers"--NOT actual-"PATIENTS"--at "NeuroFit 360" MISTAKENLY "ASS-ume" that I SLEEP during my WORKOUTS … JUST 'cuz I SHUT/CLOSE my eyes … when I'm REALLY FOCUSED/CONCENTRATING!

(… Y'ALL "observe" with your EYES … NOT your MOUTH!)
______________________________________________________________________________
…
"There's ALWAYS an ANSWER.
We just need to FIND it!"
(--Walter, 'Scorpion')
_______________________________________________________________________________
… I can TOTALLY/COMPLETELY "RELATE to" the "Scorpion"-team!
I WAS--before my "death-DEFYING" accident … & still AM--VERY MIS-understood.
People caN'T SEE the MANY "INTRICACIES" & "MULTI-variable ENIGMAS" of MY brain!



P.S. I NEUROLOGICALLY/MENTALLY ALTERED my "BRAIN X-ray" to make a "tumor" SEEM to "appear".



...

EXPECT the(/YOUR BEST, but PREPARE for the/YOUR WORST!

…
"'SHIT' happens."
(… The WORST part of all is that THAT's practically UN-avoidable!)

BAD things TEND TO occur.  'Tis--how you say--INEVITABLE.
LIFE is NOT even CLOSE to "PERFECT".

Oh, well …
DEAL with it!
"SUCK … it … UP!"
_______________________________________________________________________________
… LUCKILY/THANKFULLY,
BAD stuff doesN'T ALWAYS or HAFTA occur.

((… In order to LIMIT the # of said UN-fortunate happenings, we MUST … (See SUBJECT.) be READY!))
_____________________________________________________________________________
…
I'm ALL ABOUT "second-chances".
(… You must show/demonstrate/PROVE your strength/understanding/VALOR!)
Thus, RATHER THAN "terminating" the employment of my (NEW) SUNDAY-employEE, I am CHOOSING TO "simply" "TRAIN" him even FURTHER/"more EXTENSIVELY" to--PERHAPS/HOPEFULLY allow him to "GATHER his WITS"/regroup/RE-learn the PROPER "handling"/CARE.

(… Fingers CROSSED.)
(… I--literally--JUST did that!
… And my TOES … and my LEGS … my EYES)


(… DAMNIT!  Now, I caN'T watch the end of 'Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull'!)
_____________________________________________________________________________
…
You've GOTTA 'Bring it On: "IN it to WIN it"'!
MY "philosophy/regard" on/for LIFE abides by that "100%-ALL-the-time"/"DO-or-DIE" attitude.  So, doing ANYTHING "HALF-ass" is "foreign"/BLASPHEMY to ME.


______________________________________________________________________________
…
"HELPLESSNESS is a DESTRUCTIVE feeling!"
(--psychiatrist Toby on 'TEAM-Scorpion', 'Scorpion')

((… Hence/Thus, my MANY UN-successful attempts to STAND & "WALK" at "NeuroFit 360" were VERY DISCOURAGING.
HOWEVER, I would NOT "stay DOWN" (PUN IN-tended = PHYSICALLY & PSYCHOLOGICALLY/EMOTIONALLY).  This evening I "showed-off" my EXCEPTIONAL "WALKING" to my mom & MY three MAIN lawyers.))
______________________________________________________________________________
… I thereby PROVED that "OPTIMISM, STRENGTH & DETERMINATION" WILL--ULTIMATELY--"TRIUMPH" over "NERVES 'gone-HAYWIRE'".

(… That was actually VERY ENCOURAGING!)



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"'FOOD' for THOUGHT":

…
"Would you RATHER live during the ASCENDENCY of a civilization
OR
in its DECLINE?"
(--Gilbert, 'Revenge of the Nerds')

(… Personally, I'd PREFER to be an "UP-&-COMER".
… I'm an OPTIMIST, & I wouldN'T do WELL--mentally/morally/PSYCHOLOGICALLY--with that MANY "let-downs"/DISAPPOINTMENTS.)
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"What if--UH--'C-A-T' spelled 'DOG'?"
(--Ogre, 'Revenge of the NerdsII')

(… That only SEEMS interesting, 'cuz we're examining it in HINDSIGHT:
What IF a word WERE spelled as its EXACT-OPPOSITE?)
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"We ALL must be GREATER than (FROM) what we we 'SUFFER'."
(--Peter Parker, 'The Amazing Spiderman)

((… Although we (I) may 'SUFFER' (FAR) more 'we' DESERVE to, 'we' must NEVER choose the 'road' to BITTERNESS.
… INSTEAD, seek BETTER-NESS & self-IMPROVEMENT.))
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… Read Robert Frost's 'The Road NOT Taken', & "ABSORB" that.

(… That's why I ALWAYS take the TIME to "weigh the PROs versus the CONs" before making a decision.)

(… UNFORTUNATELY, as a RESULT, my TIME-management "SUFFERS"._
… ''C'est la vie.''  -- French for ''That's LIFE.'')
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…
(STASTICALLY:)
"They can't ALL be 'WINNERS'."
((… Today … was an AWFUL day!I had a NEW (JUST for SUNDAYS) try-out this MORNING & AFTERNOON, & his "performance" was "FRIGHTENINGLY"-BAD!  He's ALREADY HAD two COMPLETE days of "TRAINING".  Yet, 'twas as if he'd NEVER PREVIOUSLY-worked with "DISABLED"-folks.)) 
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…
"I doN'T WANT … YO' FUECHUH!"
((--Young, BRITISH Professor X (21 year-old ME) to Wolverine (30 year-old ME), 'X-Men: Days of Future Past') 
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…
SUNDAY is--technically/ESSENTIALLY--my ONE day SEMI-off.  
So, I tend to REFLECT MORE.  




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"You shouldN'T take life too SERIOUSLY. You'll never get out ALIVE."

… "Write that down."

…
"DoN'T FORGET!
APATHY is the 'GLOVE' into which EVIL slips its 'hand'."

(--''National Lampoon's Van Wilder'')

You've gotta CARE enough to CHANGE/"step OUTTA your "COMFORT-zone"!
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…
IF your life is rather UN-eventful--as MINE CURRENTLY is, you must "go OUT-OF-YOUR WAY" to seek/find HAPPINESS/JOY/EXCITEMENT.

(… 'Por ejemplo':
This afternoon my buddy & his step-dad accompanied me to see the HILARIOUS film,

'Get Hard'.)
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… The COMEDIC-movie--AND the GREAT company REALLY "brought-UP my spirits"!

(… I THINK this quote--ORIGINALLY by/from Ralph Marston--was in the film:

"SUCCESS is a 'way of LIFE'."

(… That's SEMI-related to the saying:
"If you can 'TALK the TALK', then let's see you 'WALK the WALK'.")
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… VERY soon, I WILL!
(… My "WALKING" is IMPROVING … EVERY DAY!)

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(I'm UBER-tired!)



...

'Carpe diem!'

… = 'Seize the day!'  … in LATIN
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… Wanna know HOW/WHY I know A LITTLE Latin, DESPITE my taking FOUR YEARS of SPANISH in high school?!
1) I am a CUNNING linguist.  I KNOW … MANY "pieces"/parts of SEVERAL languages:
English, Turkish, Spanish, German, Japanese, "Pig-latin" & Latin.
2) Almost EVERY medical-term has a LATIN base/root.  Since I'm a "Bio-MEDICAL Engineer", I KINDA know SUMTHIN' about the HUMAN-body.
3) Two of my GOOD BUDDIES--FOOLISHLY (SSSHHH!) took Latin--NOT Spanish--in high school.  Their KNOWLEDGE kinda "rubbed-off" on me.
4) MANY MATHEMATICAL-terms have LATIN-"roots"/bases.
(… 'mono-' = 1, 'bi-'/'di-' = 2, 'tri-' = 3, 'quad' = 4, 'quint' = 5, 'hex-' = 6, 'sept-' = 7, 'oct-' = 8, '
cent-' = 100, 'mil-' = 1000, etc.)
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...
Do not WAIT for "a GREAT moment".
MAKE a moment GREAT!
(… Then, REPEAT/DUPLICATE procedure … many, many, MANY times!)
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… Be more PRO-active!

(… I MUST "break down" the word:
"PRO-" = POSITIVE
"-ACTIVE" = ENERGETIC; NOT LAZY/LETHARGIC)
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…As an OPTIMISTIC (FORMER) ATHLETE,
"proactive" is an EXCELLENT word to describe MY aspect/view of LIFE!
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…
"LIFE has NO 'timeouts'.  But, make sure you take some time out of your day to realize how BLESSED you are."
(--Minnesota Vikings NFL Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater)
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… Since I'm NOT a theologian (ME: "SCIENCE & MATH >> RELIGION."), I STILL feel 'tis VERY IMPORTANT to CONSTANTLY be THANKFUL/GRATEFUL for ALL that YOU have EARNED/ACHIEVED!
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… On THAT note, I own a shirt that "signifies" my "membership IN"/"possession OF" a "ONE-Man Wrecking Crew".
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…
"There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."

...
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

…
"ou must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!"

…
"Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go,

[imitating a goat]

 'That's baaaaad.' 

Robert Frost said, 'Two roads diverged in the wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.'

...

(I've--QUIETLY, SLYLY--observed far too MANY TERRIBLE, EVIL people who just SUCK at the "game of 'LIFE'":)

ME, to THEM: "This is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your hearts and souls."

…
"To quote Walt Whitman: 'O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?' Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

(--ALL quotes by Professor John Keating, 'Dead Poets Society')



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"GOOD-work takes TIME."

…

"'SUCCESS' isn't always about 'GREATNESS'.  It's about CONSISTENCY'.  CONSISTENT hard work gains SUCCESS.  GREATNESS will come.." -The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

According to THAT philosophy/ideology, I will--EVENTUALLY--become a "'GREAT' WALKER"!
(… I'm not there YET.  But, I can FEEL my legs, back, eyes & posture IMPROVING!)
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… How OFTEN does THAT appear on a LEGITIMATE resume'--
"GREAT walkER"?!

(… Well, once again, I'll be the FIRST!)
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…
Since I "eat,sleep, drink, breathe & LIVE MATH", I was PREPARED with a 20-QUESTION quiz for my "tutEE", when she SURPRISED me by--RANDOMLY--showing up for an EXTRA, shortened REVIEW-session.
She had to go to WORK, so she JUST had time to do ONE problem.
(… The OTHER 95% are homework.  ''C'est la vie.'')
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…
Working with KIDS--ESPECIALLY via "MARTIAL ARTS" (a :"TIME/WORK"^n- REQUIRED practice/skill) TESTS my/"ANY teacher's" PATIENCE.
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…
Regarding ANY physical-activiy--SPECIFICALLY, "MY recovery/rehabilitation"--tend to go -AGAINST my "MATHEMATICAL-intuition":

"Your TALENT-level is either IMPROVING or DECLINING.
There are NO 'plateaus'."
(--University of Wisconsin FOOTBALL coach Paul Chryst)
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…
Baxk in the day (high school), …


(I was out LATE, so MORE tomorrow.)

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