Thursday, June 4, 2009

Superpowers

When you see me you might think: "Tall guy, small head." This just hides the fact that I have mutant superpowers. One (of my many) superpower I have is an extremely strong heart. I needed to get an EKG (technically an ECG) done for my student visa application. The nurse asked me to lie down. I looked like this (but more tan): She took a test reading and she told me that my heart was beating too slow! This was because my resting rate was much lower than a normal human being's. She needed it to be up to 60 bpm (beats per minute). Mine was at 56. So she told me to exercise to get my heart rate up. I did some jumping jacks. Some windmills. Some torso twists. I jumped in place for about 30 seconds. When I laid down again, we took a reading, my heart rate was again too low. So she asked me to grab stars. I sat up and began grabbing stars. I laid back down again for another ECG reading. Still too low. She then said, in her very cute Taiwanese accent, "Maybe you think about your wife." I always think about the Boss so that didn't help. I told her maybe my heart rate would go up if the Boss yelled out me. She did and it did go up but right when we took the ECG reading it had gone back down again. Then the nurse said, "Think of something scary!" So I started laughing because I couldn't think of anything scary. And my heart rate went up! We took a reading, but had to discard that too because I was shaking while I was laughing. Finally we took a reading that was acceptable. This confirms the nature of my powers. Do you have any special powers? I doubt it. I didn't see anyone that would read this blog at the Xavier mansion last week.

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