Physical Examination

I've been listening to Underworld's Beacoup Fish lately, taring through my CD collection like a hungry buzzard in a dumpster I needed something to keep me put and finish up my last ever, thank the lord, set of mid-terms.  This is my third semester living in Denver and the adjustment to the pace and lifestyle has been cool but challenging.  Driving is a real issue for me, to school takes 30, to the gym takes 30, to a cafe takes 15, it all adds up.  I guess if you don't leave the city to play in the hills then you may not need to drive as much but that just aint me.  On the other hand I'm digging being out of the Boulder bubble for a number of reasons.  

So any way, this is a short study break for me, felt like jettisoning some ideas to see what floats or maybe to see if it helps me float... right.  So a few things have been hitting me lately: one with school and the other with climbing but they seem related to a bigger question, something that philosophers and psychologists and scientists have pondered: measuring one man's achievements against an other's.  With school, I've noticed, and this is no new thing, that exam performance tends not to correlate well with ability or preparation.  
I say this not only from personal experience of doing well on exams I feel incompetent on and do only so so on information that I feel is second nature, but also I've seen classmates struggle with questions that I find trivial while they blow me away with their knowledge base.  Because I'm trying to keep this brief I'll move on and get back to this idea later.  And so it goes for climbing.  Peter Beal recently posted on his blog about his frustration with bouldering grades and how variable they are, one man's slopper is another man's crimps.  Font was the most my-style bouldering place I've been and easier for the grade than most Hueco problems, I also think the gym is harder than outdoors.  Body type, neural circuits, muscle type distribution, and other psychosocial factors that are out of our volitional control are at work in our education, work, and play, sometimes... times like these for me, I try to give thanks for what I got goin' for me in order to muster somethin' extra for what I don't.  Rambling'.  Spring break post commin' next.

These photos are from a couple weekends ago in Eldorado with Taylor Roy and Tera Gee.  On the way out T and I found 2 crazy dope problems that need some attention.