Wes Wilson

This weekend was the 4th annual Running from Cancer event in Windsor Ontario. The 5k/10k/Half-Marathon events raise money for both the Windsor Regional Hospital and the Windsor and Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation.

This was my first year in this event, and I wouldn’t have known about it if wasn’t for Lee-Anne. With only my hockey training, I was looking to finish before the people that looked like they were one cookie away from a heart attack, and after the people who had clothes designed for running. Most of the race was a blur mentally, and was mostly just me repeating to myself things about ‘just keep running’ in a ‘Finding Nemo’ sort of way. However I do remember a few moments of diverse thought.

• As a pack of 15 year olds in soccer uniforms passed me: I’ll catch them later
• As my shoelace fell apart: F***ing shoelace
• As I reached the half way point: It would take me longer to walk back now, might as well keep running.
• As I finished: F***ing Soccer Players

As I sat breathless with my camera taking pictures of the winners at the award ceremony, I was caught off guard when the over enthusiastic running announcer called out my name. As I staggered towards the trophy table, partially blinded by the bright yellow volunteer shirt worn by the ladies passing out awards, I tried to figure out what was going on. It was explained to me that trophies were given out to top racers in each age division, and that apparently the ‘real’ first place runner in my age class (20min) already got an award for placing 3rd overall, so I was bumped up since I finished second in my age range (which was a surprise to me to begin with). We raised some money to fight cancer, got some plastic to put on my desk, and reminded myself why I need to run more. All in all, it was a good morning.

I am finally back  in Canada after what can only be described as a tornado of a year.  Even in this last week, I have had to decide to either give up on some of my ambitions or at least put them on hold. I was able to use my time in Spain to re-prioritize things in my life and with a little help from “The House of God” by Samuel Shem, I have realized the worse is yet to come. There are still some things I would like to get done this summer with my 5 Weeks of Freedom.

1) Shoot another short film. Jeff and I are working on a heist film. There is still some details that need to be worked out but I think it is very doable if we jump on this quick before my trip to Mexico.

2) Medical RPG. I’m currently in production of creating a PC game of the Medical RPG genre (not sure if such exists yet). At first I was thinking of using XNA and C# but my artistic skills leave something to be desired so I might resort to a oldschool sprite 2D RPG and save people my horrible drawing skills and hope that my epic story will save the horrible graphics.

3) Campus Radio. Ya you heard me. I’m crazy. I’m thinking about starting a campus radio at RCSI. I will need alot of help, so this one might not happen.

Ontop of all the things I want to do, there is still a ton of stuff I HAVE to do.

1. Create the Surgical Soc Site
2. Mexico
3. Paediatric Observership
4. 5k Race
5. 10k Race
6. Work
7. Study

Its an ambitious timeline I will admit that, but I like a challenge.

Every 12.368 lunar cycles a very special day comes around. In the busyness of everyday life and craze of tweeting on your face-blog, it is easy to forget the magical things that occurred and will occur on May 19th. So as a public service to the world, I give you a short remembrance/prophecy of the events of this great day.

May 19th 1499 – Catherine of Aragon, is married by proxy Arthur Tudor

May 19th 1536 – Anne Boleyn is beheaded

May 19th 1643 – Thirty Years’ War comes to an end (well the last big battle anyway)

May 19th 1925 – Malcom X is Born

May 19th 1967 – The United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom agree to ban nuclear weapons from outer space.

May 19th 198* – Wes Wilson is Born

May 19th 2015 – Canada and United States develop the worlds first true AI

May 19th 2015 (later that day) – Time travelling Ninjas steal the AI

May 19th 2019 – A joint task force of RCMP, Navy Seals, Dr. Wilson, and a lost 3rd grade school group on a field trip to the Ontario Science Centre, use H.G. Wells time machine to pursue the ninjas and regain the AI. The mission is a success except for one tiny mishap involving a monkey and a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch mix tape which changed the time line so that the world’s largest super power was now Upper Mongolia, which owed much of its success to the release of Heroes episodes that didn’t suck.

This semester might have flown by, but now it’s time for finals and I can’t even comprehend the amount of material we have covered in such a short time. In 14 days, one way or another, I’ll be ready for it.

Also, it’s that time of year again, classes and test stop for 2.5 months!!! I know crazy right? If I write all my crazy tests next summer (USMLE, MCCEE) that leaves this summer to really start shooting some stuff film wise. We got our new site up (AlphaCarbon Studios) and are super excited to jump on our new projects.

SUPERNATURAL… Jeff got me hooked on Supernatural, I’ve gone through the first 3 seasons and after the nightmares of zombie vampires attacking me to the tune of old rock finally went away, I just can’t get enough of it. The plot (like 80% of shows that make it to season 4) is starting to get silly and lose its way, but like 3 seasons of Dead Zone, I just can’t turn it off!