Don't be rude to your nurse. Don't yell, don't swear, don't make threats. Your nurse is not responsible for what the kitchen sends on your tray, for what orders your doctor has written or failed to write, for how quickly the pharmacy sends medications to the floor, for how often housekeeping mops your room, for the fact that the lab draws blood at ( Read more... )

The first time I ever logged onto URSA was at orientation the summer before my freshperson year. It has been six-and-a-half years since then. I have used URSA to register for classes, assuage my first day of class "Where does it meet? I'll get lost! Ack!" moment of panic, look up my grades, painstakingly and anally calculate my GPA every two days, ( Read more... )

In high school, I once stumbled upon a channel that played oldies music videos (generally boring, since each video consists of the singer(s) standing in front of a mike). On came "I Feel The Earth Move". I was totally surprised to find out that Carole King is white; I'd always pictured her as a hip 70s African-American woman with a hip 70s afro. In ( Read more... )

1) If possible, go for a run or at least do some deep breathing to open your lungs and loosen everything up ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm very good at making friends. I try really hard to reach out to people, but it doesn't always work so well. Maybe I try too hard. Maybe there's somehing in the people I want to talk to that can smell the loser, detect the clingyness, and avoids it ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, my mom and I had our Thanksgiving shindig. We went to eat at our favorite vegetarian restaurant, had mimosas, played cards and drank coffee at my apartment, and wound up at my mom's house for dessert and a movie. We picked "Baby Mama"--my mother loves chick flicks (and action movies) and I love Tina Fey. I must say, despite all ( Read more... )

NEW STAR TREK MOVIE! COMES OUT THE DAY AFTER MY BIRTHDAY! SO STOKED! ENGLISH SKILLS DISINTIGRATING!

1) I would enjoy winter more if it weren't so freaking cold. I have grown to like the change of seasons, and being curled into coats, and wrapping one's body around mugs of hot drink. But there's a point where it just hurts to be cold, and that is no good.

2) I am still in sandals, much to the distress of my mother. I forget that living away from ( Read more... )

I'm reading For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. It's about the ways in which women's work and lives have become the property of "experts" who tell women the best way to do everything.

The book links industrialism to the sexual segregation in the Western world. I'm not sure about this assertion, since I'm a little wary of the ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about universal health care for quite some time. I've seen a lot of people avoid medical visits because they couldn't afford them, and I've seen people hold fundraisers like spaghetti dinners and car washes in order to pay for long-term healthcare. I don't think a country as wealthy as ours should allow this sort of thing to go ( Read more... )