I just finished a week-long fieldwork at Western State Hospital- the largest psychiatric hospital this side of the Mississippi! It was very...interesting. I found many of the staff members pretty frustrating (they're state employees which basically means they can't be fired so a lot of them are on autopilot), but the awesome patients more than ( Read more... )

I haven’t updated this thing in 3 weeks, sorry! I’ve been really busy with school- papers and group projects and whatnot. Buuut this weekend I don’t have any homework because staring on Monday we’re all doing a week long fieldwork in a mental health setting. My classmate Chris and I are going to Western State Hospital in Tacoma. I’m not ( Read more... )

Phew, what a long week! Monday I went to school then to Literacy Source to tutor, Tuesday was just a lot of school stuff, and Wednesday was pretty much the same. Thursday I went to school, and then babysat three kids and a brand new puppy. The puppy (Icelandic sheepdog) was actually pretty good- he only had one accident inside the house. The ( Read more... )

One of the big things in occupational therapy is the use of purposeful activity, which is any activity that is goal directed and meaningful to the performer. Purposeful activity, which is used in a humanistic model of health services, stands in opposition to rote exercise, which is used in a reductionist model of health services. So basically the ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in school after a great break. My parents came to Seattle and then John and I drove with them to Redwood National Park in Northern California. On the way there we stopped in Portland to walk around a bit and see Pittock Mansion, and on the way back we stopped at Crater Lake National Park for about 2 hours, and in Tacoma where my ( Read more... )

As of today I am officially 1/3rd of the way through grad school-- 9 months down, 18 more to go! This morning I took my Kinesiology final then tutored at Literacy Source, then went to my classmate Katie’s house for a while, and am now home. John’s been in Maryland since Friday but he’s coming back tonight, hooray! I’m meeting him at the airport ( Read more... )

I love this music video:

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And this commercial:

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And this bit of snarky social commentary:

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I should reallllly be studying....

Back from an awesome four day weekend in Maryland- click here for pictures

After 6 months of cold, rainy, dreary weather, today it was 88 degrees and sunny. I forgot how exhausting it is just being out in the sun. It’s 9:15pm right now and I want to go to bed sooo bad ( Read more... )

First things first, I gotta give two huge shout outs- one to my brother Andrew, and one to my Mom ( Read more... )