You know what makes me mad?  When American-born Citizens use citizenship as a way to delineate the “good” immigrants from the “bad” immigrants.  Imagine a man born in Columbia who came to America on a Work Visa 7 years ago and found work with a construction company.  One day he’s a shameful burden on society, taking good jobs away from deserving ( Read more... )

Good God, longest week ever....

Monday: Class, tutor at Literacy Source, back to class, home, homework, bed
Tuesday: Three classes, errands, dinner with Amanda and Brad, Hot Chip concert at the Showbox with Amanda, home at 1am, bed
Wednesday: Class, Medical Sciences test, gym, dinner with John, Loren, and Sarah, home, bed
Thursday: Two classes, ( Read more... )

The other week my kinesiology teacher mentioned something I had never heard of- the reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. I think total joint replacements are really cool and I’d like to learn more about them, so I found an article in a 2006 edition of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery about reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Before I go ( Read more... )

From April 11th-15th, the 14th Dalai Lama visited Seattle for a series of community events. Thanks to John I was able to score one of the limited number of tickets set aside for UW students, and on Monday the 14th I went to Hec Edmundson Pavillion to hear the Dalai Lama speak. While waiting for the program to begin my friend Morgan asked why, if ( Read more... )

On Monday John and I went to the Intiman Theater at the Seattle Center to see Lucille Clifton read. The reading was part of the Seattle Arts and Lecture Poetry Series, a really popular annual event. Lucille Clifton is a poet and author; she served as the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979-1985, and as a professor at St. Mary’s until retiring in ( Read more... )

And so ends the first week of the spring quarter. It’s always a little hard getting back into the swing of things after a break, but I think it’s going to be a good quarter. I’m taking Medical Sciences, Kinesiology, Kinesiology Lab, Professional and Therapeutic Communication, Dissection Lab, and Occupational Therapy in Psychosocial Dysfunction. ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of my spring break... good God it went by soooo fast! During the first half of break I ran errands, saw friends, and worked on a scholarship I'm applying for. Then my mom came! We walked all over the U-District, went in stores and art galleries, checked out Ravenna Park, Volunteer Park and the Conservatory, Pike Place ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished reading “Palestine” by Joe Sacco. Wow, I love this book! "Palestine" is a graphic novel by photojournalist Joe Sacco, originally published in two volumes. It details the time Sacco spent in the Middle East in 1991-1992, primarily touring Palestinian refugee camps and conducting interviews in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The ( Read more... )

Hooray, finals are over! The last two weeks were brutal, it was like the OT program was waging a war of attrition- I just got more and more worn out with each new exam. But now I have a week and a half to enjoy spring break and I couldn’t be happier. Today I’m hanging out with my friend Miyuki, tomorrow night I’m going out with some classmates, ( Read more... )

From the Seattle Weekly:

Dear Uptight Seattleite ( Read more... )