I'm totally adapting improv games to teach articulation. This is awesome people ; ) Hopefully, they will actually work in practice. haha.

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This song makes me smile.  This video makes me smile even more.  :   )

A convo between me and a friend/fellow grad student.

Me: Man, I can't wait to be employed and have a 401K
Friend: Screw a 401K! I can't wait to have benefits. Like health insurance. With dental.
Me: Oh man...... dental. That's gonna be awesome.

So I'm probably just as big of a Harry Potter fan as the next guy. I've been looking forward to this month just because of the movie and book releases. But unfortunately, I'm in Grad School. I can't just drop everything to go to midnight movie showings or stay up for 24 hours straight reading a book for fun. This being the case, it may be a ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if you were all aware of this, but I haven't been the biggest fan of the current administration. However, I need to point out something this leadership is doing that I'm all about and think everyone else needs to support as well.  Now true, it took a media scandal about the Walter Reed Med Center to instigate awareness of this problem ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, I went to Boston, and while I was up there, I met some of Erin's friends. Several of them had ties to Italy/Italian, so one of the evenings I was there, I got to sit around and converse in Italian. Oh man. It felt so good! And I blew myself away with how much I remembered and how quickly I could say things (well, relatively ( Read more... )

This summer my clinic placement is at an adult outpatient rehab clinic. I work mostly with adults recovering from stroke or traumatic brain injuries. The next few months though, we will be working with a really large influx of soldiers who have returned from Iraq. Today, I met a young man who is a year younger than me. For the rest of his life ( Read more... )

I'm back in Nashville. It's weird being back. It almost felt like coming home when I got here. Well, not home. But more like I'm back in the place I'm supposed to be - at least for now. I guess that's a good thing to feel since I'm here for another year. RIght ( Read more... )

I learned how to drive a stick today in my old high school parking lot...or rather, the new parking lot where my old high school used to be. Nevertheless, I can now manually shift between gears. Um. Sort of. Technically, I never made it to fourth or fifth (we were in a parking lot afterall) but I have confidence that I could get them going just ( Read more... )

the iRack

it's been far too long since my last
there are a few things that have been on my mind as of late.

1.  we live in a ridiculously spoiled country.  and i am just as guilty, if not more so, than anyone.  but we are all so spoiled.  we live in luxury and think that it is all an expected standard of living.  i mean we complain about traffic or ( Read more... )