So what's goin' on?
*shrug* Work, school...with them both I'm goin more than a full time job. School is still going well. Deans list for me. And I got my grade back from Anatomy...it was a 100.3% I think. I got an 88 out of 85 on my speech.
You know, most people fear death. But even more people would rather die than give a speech. I don't really know this feeling after all of the speaking I do with people that I don't know at work. It makes me feel good to be in front of people and to be talking about something that I plan to make them interested in.
What else? Uhm...got really upset because I got a jury summons during a school day, but I was told it would be deferred if I wrote "student" as my excuse. So I could relax after that. Of course, the first day I'm on that side of town since I got the summons, it's Columbus day, and the Jury office isn't open. Rats.
The thing about school is...while I'm really good at the academics part of it, I'm afraid I'm quite unsure about the hands-on part. I'm afraid of hurting my clients, while when it was people I knew that I was massaging, I knew they wouldn't mind if I hurt them a little. If I hurt a client bad enough, they'll get so mad and I can imagine I could get in a bit of trouble.
We started our palpation journals today, identifying the trapezius, levator scapula, teres major and minor, pectoralis major, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, deltoids, latissimus dorsi and so on... and that includes naming the origin and insertion of each of these.......I have a feeling we haven't even scratched the surface. It never ceases to amaze me...the body...that the scapula had a specific place for the muscle that was intended to go there, even named for the muscle--supraspinatus fossa...
It makes me turn over in my head once again how people (and especially my instructor, who has great fascination with the human body) can ignore the intricacies of the body that prove that there's a God; that a mere force of nature could not devise the beauty that is a body and a living soul. If the body itself isn't enough to convince someone, the brain itself is a wonder that I can't even grasp. Every time a new memory is made, or a new thing learned, a new nerve connection is made in the brain for recollection later. It's not like information just goes up to the brain and sits in a corner. After repetition, the brain strengthens the bond of the nerve cells. That's why studying is so important and memorizing lasts longer than listening once. I mean, if a weak bond is made (say a memory that isn't reviewed after taken in) It can easily be lost, as a memory that has been repeated over and over in the mind will stay much longer, if not forever.
It's so stunningly amazing, I don't know how there isn't some incredibly intelligent being that has thought it all up.
I have a new addition to my extended family...My aunt is getting married...so soon after her divorce lol, and there's her new husband, but there's also his ten-year-old son. So I have a new cousin...which for some reason I'm drawing a blank on his name....
I'm teaching my Swedish Massage sequence to a fellow classmate at six-thirty since his Swedish instructor was incompetent (not that I know this first-hand, but all of his students have said they like our routine much better and think they were ill-prepared). It's hard to make friends in class because I refuse to sacrifice my grade to look cool. No longer. If nerd isn't in, sorry, but I'm out.
On that note, I bid you farewell. Thanks for reading.
~Megan
You know, most people fear death. But even more people would rather die than give a speech. I don't really know this feeling after all of the speaking I do with people that I don't know at work. It makes me feel good to be in front of people and to be talking about something that I plan to make them interested in.
What else? Uhm...got really upset because I got a jury summons during a school day, but I was told it would be deferred if I wrote "student" as my excuse. So I could relax after that. Of course, the first day I'm on that side of town since I got the summons, it's Columbus day, and the Jury office isn't open. Rats.
The thing about school is...while I'm really good at the academics part of it, I'm afraid I'm quite unsure about the hands-on part. I'm afraid of hurting my clients, while when it was people I knew that I was massaging, I knew they wouldn't mind if I hurt them a little. If I hurt a client bad enough, they'll get so mad and I can imagine I could get in a bit of trouble.
We started our palpation journals today, identifying the trapezius, levator scapula, teres major and minor, pectoralis major, supraspinatus, infraspinatus, deltoids, latissimus dorsi and so on... and that includes naming the origin and insertion of each of these.......I have a feeling we haven't even scratched the surface. It never ceases to amaze me...the body...that the scapula had a specific place for the muscle that was intended to go there, even named for the muscle--supraspinatus fossa...
It makes me turn over in my head once again how people (and especially my instructor, who has great fascination with the human body) can ignore the intricacies of the body that prove that there's a God; that a mere force of nature could not devise the beauty that is a body and a living soul. If the body itself isn't enough to convince someone, the brain itself is a wonder that I can't even grasp. Every time a new memory is made, or a new thing learned, a new nerve connection is made in the brain for recollection later. It's not like information just goes up to the brain and sits in a corner. After repetition, the brain strengthens the bond of the nerve cells. That's why studying is so important and memorizing lasts longer than listening once. I mean, if a weak bond is made (say a memory that isn't reviewed after taken in) It can easily be lost, as a memory that has been repeated over and over in the mind will stay much longer, if not forever.
It's so stunningly amazing, I don't know how there isn't some incredibly intelligent being that has thought it all up.
I have a new addition to my extended family...My aunt is getting married...so soon after her divorce lol, and there's her new husband, but there's also his ten-year-old son. So I have a new cousin...which for some reason I'm drawing a blank on his name....
I'm teaching my Swedish Massage sequence to a fellow classmate at six-thirty since his Swedish instructor was incompetent (not that I know this first-hand, but all of his students have said they like our routine much better and think they were ill-prepared). It's hard to make friends in class because I refuse to sacrifice my grade to look cool. No longer. If nerd isn't in, sorry, but I'm out.
On that note, I bid you farewell. Thanks for reading.
~Megan