Before we get started… ATTN SUNDAY BRUNCH CREW: Patrick from the Majestic e-mailed to inform me that they WILL be open for Sunday brunch, at the regular hours. I replied, thanking him and letting him know that some of the regulars would like Tif to dress up in a bunny costume. He said he’d pass it on<\/p>\n
Soooooo recently I mentioned that the City Schools are bringing me on permanently. Being a government institution, there’s tons of paperwork to fill out, tons of hoops to jump through. One thing I have to do is go get a physical – I have to get a doctor to sign a note saying that I don’t have any health problems that could endanger the students. Not that I’m ever around students – I’m a web developer at the Board of Education. Nonetheless, I have to get it done.<\/p>\n
A friend recommended that I go to Harbor of Health<\/a> over on the Island, which offers same-day appointments. So I hit their site and printed out their patient intake form, so I could fill it out ahead of time… some of the questions I have to answer… oh boy.<\/p>\n “How many servings of green, yellow or red vegetables do you eat on average per day?” Um. OK. Let’s see. When I get nachos from Huey’s, there are tomatoes on the nachos, so that’s one. When I get a burger from Big Foot, I take the tomato off, so that’s a zero. Now, when I get grilled tilapia (“Make it SNAPPY!”) from the Flying Fish, I eat the squash and zucchini that come with it – that should count as 2. When I go to the Majestic, I look over the salads on the menu and then get a burger, so that’s a zero. When I get hot wings from the Saucer or Big Foot, I eat the celery and carrots, so that’s 2. Guess I’m doing all right there.<\/p>\n “How many times a week do you exercise?” Well, here I have an advantage, because I have a gym in Number 10’s basement. And I go down there a couple of times a week because that’s where the building’s coke machine is located. So I’ll go with 2. Oh, what the hell, 3, I drink a lot of coke.<\/p>\n “What type of exercise do you prefer?” Wild sex with hot Romanian girls. Hey, it said what type I PREFER, not what type I actually DO.<\/p>\n “Do you drink alcohol? How often? What kind?” Um. Yeah. Oh boy. Maybe I should just respond “See paulryburn.com\/blog for the answers to these questions.”<\/p>\n I have the feeling I’m going to get one of those doctors who tells me all the things I need to be doing differently to be healthy. Which is different from what I want, which is a doctor who will sign the damn form and let me get on my way.<\/p>\n Anyway, other than little speed bumps like the physical, I’m well on my way to going permanent. In fact, one of my co-workers told me this week, “Paul, now that you’re going to be around for a while, you need to decorate your cubicle. You know, put up some pictures of your loved ones.”<\/p>\n Fine. I’ll take the camera up to the Saucer tonight and take some pics of the waitresses.<\/p>\n Heading there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before we get started… ATTN SUNDAY BRUNCH CREW: Patrick from the Majestic e-mailed to inform me that they WILL be open for Sunday brunch, at the regular hours. I replied, thanking him and letting him know that some of the regulars would like Tif to dress up in a bunny costume. He said he’d pass … Continue reading “Jumping through hoops: Some questions I’d rather not answer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}