Art in the World
There is still art in the world, sometimes you just have to squint a little to see it.
A Study for Fifteen Points by Random International, 2016.
Well On The Road to Becoming an Occupational Therapist
This week I finished my last class-work at San Jose State University toward my master’s degree in occupational therapy!
The Road Behind Me:
June 2011: needing a new professional life, my dad suggested a career in a medical field from an article he read in the local newspaper.
August 2011: Started three years of part-time classes taking prereqs like Anatomy, Physiology, Statistics, Sociology, Abnormal Psychology, and Neuroanatomy
Fall 2014 – Spring 2016: Academic program at San Jose State University. An intense, highly regarded academic program, 15 units per semester for two years.
The Road Ahead:
May 27: Walk with a cap and gown at Convocation with my cohort!
June 2016 – December 2016: Two fieldwork sites, a SNF/Rehab facility in Alameda and a community senior home care service in San Francisco.
December 2016: Graduation!
January 2017: take the OT Board Certification Test (NBCOT)
February 2017: (Hopefully) Become a licensed and registered Occupational Therapist!
Island Time Approaching!
Megan, Abigail and I will be going to a tiny wooded island on a lake on the Minnesota-Ontario border in late June! It will be so terrific to celebrate the end of my academic program, the beginning of fieldwork, summer, family, Sarah & Don & Karen and family, and a fantastically proscribed time to do nothing but be.
Today’s Life Advice
Today’s Life Advice
Remember the star bellied Sneeches!
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OMFG, It’s Therm!
OMFG, It’s Therm!
I am REALLY excited to hear that Therm is producing a new piece of fire art for Burning Man called Le Attrata! Their work has defined the pinnacle of fire art for me for over a decade.
They have a Kickstarter… watch the video! Contribute to the project! Enjoy the art!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1530767649/le-attrata
In the video, my friend Sam Reese describes says about the feeling of their work, “…that boundary just past perceived fear… when most people see steel begin to glow… it gives you a primal fear. It feels like it should fall apart, disintegrate, maybe even explode.” I don’t know if that resonates with you but he nailed an important part of of my experience with their work.
What Grad School is Really Like
What Grad School is Really Like:
The Stress(ed) Researchers
OMG, I’ve got like 7 weeks of academic study left!
On Depression: I don’t like the phrase “A cry for help.”
Seen in a therapist’s waiting room..
(art by Aria Heller)
I don’t like the phrase “A cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide, I have a plan; I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.
I think: Your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.
But still, here you are; you’ve come over to me, banged on my door, and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”
How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: Trapped for years behind enemy lines, your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.
And you’re still just going “Give me a stick! I’m not dying out here!”
“A cry for help” Makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you. But you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.
With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.
All I’m doing is handing out sticks.
You’re the one staying alive.
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I don’t know the source or if it has ever graced a therapist’s waiting room wall (after all, it’s not the right message for every client) but it’s a good and true message.
(via Karen T. and 9gag.com. Thanks!)
APA Reference Help
APA Reference Help
I’m looking for help turning web links into APA formatted References. Can you help or recommend someone who can? Right now I have about 30 of these to do in a short period of time.
Here is an example. Turn this web link:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515079208254474?journalCode=ccpq20
into this in-text citation:
(Hejri & Sorenson, 1992)
and this Reference:
Hejri, F., & Sorenson, G.(1992). Life satisfaction among Iranian and American graduate students. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 5(3), 291-297.
No new mail!
No new mail!
The best thing I’ve seen all week
Now I can start on actually doing the things I have prioritized.
If You Think Stress Will Kill You, You’re Right
Big News:
If you think stress will kill you, then you are probably right.
And, if you think that stress won’t kill you, then you are correct.
This study says that high stress increases your chance of dying, but only if you think stress is bad for your health!
That is just the opening of Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk:How to make stress your friend