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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
End of the Quarter and Christmas
Well the end of the quarter has come and gone, and I must say it was a resounding success. And at this point I am quite excited about the upcoming semester where I will be learning how to preform neuropsychological assessments.
After finals ended, I stayed a week in Spokane to work at SPAN and catch up on some tasks I had to neglect because of school and my recent illness. This ended with the office Christmas party at Luigi's, which was hilarious. It's been my experience that most therapists/psychologists are incredibly funny, so having 13 in one room we were quite the loud bunch.
Somehow this week was exhausting, and Friday in my mess of planning for my two week ski/Christmas trip and writing/mailing 23 Christmas Cards; I lost my mind. So when I got up Saturday morning at the crack of dawn to beat the snowstorm I left everything... to include some of the Christmas presents... ugg.
At this point I thought everything was golden. I was going to get to Eagle,ID early in time for the Christmas party that evening. I quickly got through the blowing snow in Colfax and sped through Lewiston; only to be stopped right past Culdesac due to an accident.
Come to find out that the accident had included a couple fatalities and a three hour cleanup. This being a quite sobering thought, I stopped griping about the forgotten Christmas presents and being late to the party. Thanks to a ridiculous detour though on an old logging highway I made it home in time for the Christmas party with Chad. Where it turned out that we were the youngest there, but we got free sushi, so Win! haha
This next week was filled with ridiculous family time, to include my 7 person family and Chad's immediate 5 person family and 30+ extended family that lives in the Boise area. Here is a fun sister photo from our Christmas photo shoot, and a pick of the little Bros.
Addison, Emma, and Myself
Vanson and Lincoln(who is making a face... he is incorrigible but adorable)
Christmas was begun at a splendid 7am! So much more fun to have Christmas with children around. We were planning on going tubing at Bogus Basin, but with 30 mph winds that option got thrown out. We went on a walk instead where we had a snowball fight.
Blame the snowball on the teenager. Nice!
I am now currently up in McCall, ID at the Chad's parents' cabin, and went skiing yesterday. Today it is snowing buckets and another foot is expected tonight! Here is a photo from the back deck of the cabin.
I'll be here till New Years, more updates to follow!
After finals ended, I stayed a week in Spokane to work at SPAN and catch up on some tasks I had to neglect because of school and my recent illness. This ended with the office Christmas party at Luigi's, which was hilarious. It's been my experience that most therapists/psychologists are incredibly funny, so having 13 in one room we were quite the loud bunch.
Somehow this week was exhausting, and Friday in my mess of planning for my two week ski/Christmas trip and writing/mailing 23 Christmas Cards; I lost my mind. So when I got up Saturday morning at the crack of dawn to beat the snowstorm I left everything... to include some of the Christmas presents... ugg.
At this point I thought everything was golden. I was going to get to Eagle,ID early in time for the Christmas party that evening. I quickly got through the blowing snow in Colfax and sped through Lewiston; only to be stopped right past Culdesac due to an accident.
Come to find out that the accident had included a couple fatalities and a three hour cleanup. This being a quite sobering thought, I stopped griping about the forgotten Christmas presents and being late to the party. Thanks to a ridiculous detour though on an old logging highway I made it home in time for the Christmas party with Chad. Where it turned out that we were the youngest there, but we got free sushi, so Win! haha
This next week was filled with ridiculous family time, to include my 7 person family and Chad's immediate 5 person family and 30+ extended family that lives in the Boise area. Here is a fun sister photo from our Christmas photo shoot, and a pick of the little Bros.
Addison, Emma, and Myself
Vanson and Lincoln(who is making a face... he is incorrigible but adorable)
Christmas was begun at a splendid 7am! So much more fun to have Christmas with children around. We were planning on going tubing at Bogus Basin, but with 30 mph winds that option got thrown out. We went on a walk instead where we had a snowball fight.
Blame the snowball on the teenager. Nice!
I am now currently up in McCall, ID at the Chad's parents' cabin, and went skiing yesterday. Today it is snowing buckets and another foot is expected tonight! Here is a photo from the back deck of the cabin.
I'll be here till New Years, more updates to follow!
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
New Developments
Well the first quarter of graduate school education is growing to a close and I must say it has been far better than anything I had expected. When people would tell me about grad school it was always in an ominous or impressed tone. As if to say, "Well look at you, don't worry grad school will knock you down a peg or two." This resolved me early on to prove them wrong.
But what I really wasn't expecting was the camaraderie. No time was this more evident than in the last week.
The week began fantastic, last Monday I got the final ok on a thesis chair! WOOOOOOOO! Lets just say the rest of the week kind of went downhill from there. Since the quarter system is so short there are only two weeks post Thanksgiving, 1 week of class then finals. The combination of jet lag, a take home final, and 2 presentations didn't bode well for my week. What actually happened was so much worse...
Tuesday started like any other day, up early and planning to stay at school till 5 due to classes and meetings. I was feeling a little under the weather but I had a lot do work on. As the day went on though it became a bargaining game.
10 am- "If you get through today you can just relax all night"
2pm- "If you make it through today you can sleep all night"
4pm- "If you make it through this meeting without throwing up that would be a miracle"
In trying to keep that bargain to myself, I left my last meeting at 5 and promptly threw up in the hallway trying to get to the bathroom. Fantastic.
Did I also mention, it happened to be Snowpocalypse in Spokane? At this point my cohort found me practically dying in the hallway. But no fear! As Matt called it, Operation Hayden Evacuation had begun. While digging everyone out of the snow my beloved cohortlings also parked my car in a lot and then Andrew drove me home in the blizzard.
The rest of the night consisted of me running a 103 fever and throwing up. Unfortunately I couldn't just sleep off the sickness. I had to get up and present in a final group presentation in the morning. Luckily Adrienne also came and picked me up, even though I looked like death warmed up. I also had a test on Thursday, which I completed practically in a coma.
The weekend I spent sleeping made up for it though, and I am now currently in the thick of finals. My last one is tomorrow, and consists of my professor pretending to be a patient which we have to diagnose. Sounds fun but it's a lot of points so ehh? It's just another example though of my cohort coming together, when as a group we did practice rounds of this, including Matt presenting with Beiber Fever. Gotta enjoy the method acting on that one.
This quarter is all coming together though on Friday when I'm having a Christmas party at my new apartment with old and new friends! I'll be sure to put up some pics of my bedecked apartment, but for now here is my Christmas tree.
But what I really wasn't expecting was the camaraderie. No time was this more evident than in the last week.
The week began fantastic, last Monday I got the final ok on a thesis chair! WOOOOOOOO! Lets just say the rest of the week kind of went downhill from there. Since the quarter system is so short there are only two weeks post Thanksgiving, 1 week of class then finals. The combination of jet lag, a take home final, and 2 presentations didn't bode well for my week. What actually happened was so much worse...
Tuesday started like any other day, up early and planning to stay at school till 5 due to classes and meetings. I was feeling a little under the weather but I had a lot do work on. As the day went on though it became a bargaining game.
10 am- "If you get through today you can just relax all night"
2pm- "If you make it through today you can sleep all night"
4pm- "If you make it through this meeting without throwing up that would be a miracle"
In trying to keep that bargain to myself, I left my last meeting at 5 and promptly threw up in the hallway trying to get to the bathroom. Fantastic.
Did I also mention, it happened to be Snowpocalypse in Spokane? At this point my cohort found me practically dying in the hallway. But no fear! As Matt called it, Operation Hayden Evacuation had begun. While digging everyone out of the snow my beloved cohortlings also parked my car in a lot and then Andrew drove me home in the blizzard.
The rest of the night consisted of me running a 103 fever and throwing up. Unfortunately I couldn't just sleep off the sickness. I had to get up and present in a final group presentation in the morning. Luckily Adrienne also came and picked me up, even though I looked like death warmed up. I also had a test on Thursday, which I completed practically in a coma.
The weekend I spent sleeping made up for it though, and I am now currently in the thick of finals. My last one is tomorrow, and consists of my professor pretending to be a patient which we have to diagnose. Sounds fun but it's a lot of points so ehh? It's just another example though of my cohort coming together, when as a group we did practice rounds of this, including Matt presenting with Beiber Fever. Gotta enjoy the method acting on that one.
This quarter is all coming together though on Friday when I'm having a Christmas party at my new apartment with old and new friends! I'll be sure to put up some pics of my bedecked apartment, but for now here is my Christmas tree.
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