Saturday, September 24, 2005
Friday, September 23, 2005
Anna Nalick
My new favorite CD is "Wreck of the Day" by Anna Nalick. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and I've had it in my car stereo ever since. Regarding her influences, her website says this:
Citing a wide range of influences running from Fiona Apple and Tori Amos, with whom she shares a complex feminine poignancy, to Blind Melon and John Mayer, whose adroit poetic paradoxes reverberate in her songs, to Stevie Ray Vaughan, whom she calls, simply, "The guy that I'm going to marry when I get to heaven," Anna generates a sound and sensibility distinctly her own
She's going to be at the 9:30 Club on October 11th, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to go. Have to see what school and work are like. Anyway, check out the album on Amazon or Anna's official website.
Gynecologic Teaching Associates
Tomorrow in my health assessment class we have to do breast, pelvic and rectal exams. At the beginning of the semester for a brief second we were afraid that we would be doing them on each other. Turns out we do them on GTAs (gynecologic or genitourinary teaching associates). These are people who are professionally trained and paid (well) to teach students how to perform breast, pelvic, and rectal exams. They teach you how to do it on themselves by themselves. Our models (both male and female) apparently come from Johns Hopkins. How in the world you find people who are willing to do this is beyond me. I mean one pelvic or rectal exam would be enough for me, let alone four or five in a row. I'm guessing the money is really good. I was searching on the internet for info on GTAs. I didn't really find anything about the money, but I found this interesting article from the Village Voice written by a medical student about his experience with a GTA.
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Sveriges Radio
I have been listening to Swedish radio recently. Because my mom is Swedish, I can read/write/speak/understand Swedish. There isn't anything particularly different or exciting about Swedish radio, I just like being able to listen to the spoken Swedish word. It sounds so nice to me. I am also hoping that listening the Swedish radio programs will help increase my Swedish vocabulary. If you would like to check it out, see the Sveriges Radio link in my links section.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Ok, who's excited about the upcoming new Harry Potter movie? I am, I am! It comes out November 18th and there is a "new" trailer poster on Yahoo. Check it out.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Prayers and Positive Thoughts
My classmate Jill's father had a stroke today. She found out during the middle of class and of course left right away to get home to New York. I just can't even imagine what that must be like. If you are the type of person who prays, please add her and her family to your prayers. If you aren't the type of person who prays, please at least think some positive thoughts and send some positive energy her way. Thanks!
West Wing
Last night, some of my coworkers and I had the opportunity to have a private tour of the West Wing of the White House. The tour came courtesy of one of our former patients who is a member of the White House senior staff. We met up with our patient over at her office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. That place is locked up pretty tight. We had to go through two security checkpoints before we were even allowed into the building. Our patient had a wine and cheese spread for us in her office. It was good to see her again, as well as another former patient who is a good friend of hers. She really is one of the coolest and sweetest people I know (even if she is a Republican). We got to watch the beginning of the president’s national address from New Orleans in her office before the tour over in the White House started.
If you watch the West Wing on NBC, you will possibly be disappointed to know that the Oval Office is the only part that is accurate. One of the coolest parts was the numerous large photographs on the walls in all the corridors. These photographs are apparently rotated on a fairly regular basis. A photograph taken of the president in the morning can end up on the wall by the afternoon. When we there yesterday there were tons of pictures of the President surveying the devastation down on the Gulf Coast.
Although I am not the biggest fan of our current president, it was still pretty cool to be at a place where so many important things happen on a daily basis and have done so for over a hundred years. I guess the sense of history was what impressed me most, as opposed to just focusing on the fact that it is Dubya’s office now.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Race
In class today, we watched the first part of a fascinating documentary called, "Race: The Power of an Illusion." It was the kind of thing that really made you think. The documentary was produced by California Newsreel and broadcast by PBS. To quote from the film's website:
Before we watched the film, our professor had us take a "Race Literacy Quiz." Going over the answers was really eye-opening because so many of the answers were different from what you would expect. Take it yourself and see if it doesn't make you think.
The division of the world's peoples into distinct groups
- "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" peoples - has became so deeply imbedded in
our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any
suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new
three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. Race - The Power of an Illusion
questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is
no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth. Yet race
still matters. Just because race doesn't exist in biology doesn't mean it isn't
very real, helping shape life chances and opportunities.
Before we watched the film, our professor had us take a "Race Literacy Quiz." Going over the answers was really eye-opening because so many of the answers were different from what you would expect. Take it yourself and see if it doesn't make you think.
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