I like this song. For some reason I find it inspirational in a makes-me-want-to-punch-dance kind of way. I need inspiration or this interview will kick my butt. Also watch for comedic relief, Kenny and his band sail the colorado river complete with early 90's clothes and haircuts. I miss Full House and Family Matters.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
not great, but not too bad either
So things aren't necessarily working out for me just yet, but they are heading there. There are a lot of things happening to push me forward to that ultimate goal. And other things that aren't great but not too bad either.
I've been sick pretty much the whole month of April with this weird throat thing, now it's turned into a full blown congestion problem. I thought I had an ear infection, I don't have insurance. My mom took me to a doctor, my ears are fine, but I'm still super sick.
My parents have been in town for my graduation and to send Jillian off to Jerusalem. My dad got my windshield replaced on my car, which is awesome, now I don't look super ghetto with a large crack through the window.
Lucille (my computer) is not totally dead. When hooked up to an external monitor everything looks fine. And all the programs and files are not damaged. So it's in the shop hopefully being fixed for a reasonable price and everything is backed up on an external hard drive. It will make my life if my computer turns out ok.
I got invited for an interview for a real-life job! (At the local health department). It would be really amazing if things worked out for me. I have to give a ten minute presentation for part of my interview so I'm a little nervous about that, but I used to work there so I know the people who will be interviewing me. I have some work to do on that but I really want to do a good job!! And I hope I'm not still nasty sick by then.
I officially graduated on Thursday and Friday. It was kind of anti-climatic since I've been out of school since December but it was good to walk and do the whole cap and gown thing. I had my moment. I miss BYU a ton, and learning things. I feel like I never use my brain. Still working on becoming a full-fledged adult, working-for-a-living, know-what-to-do-with-the-rest-of-my-life, person but things are coming along. And now, since I can't download my pictures for my computer is in the shop, here are a few of Rachelle's pics from graduation!
I've been sick pretty much the whole month of April with this weird throat thing, now it's turned into a full blown congestion problem. I thought I had an ear infection, I don't have insurance. My mom took me to a doctor, my ears are fine, but I'm still super sick.
My parents have been in town for my graduation and to send Jillian off to Jerusalem. My dad got my windshield replaced on my car, which is awesome, now I don't look super ghetto with a large crack through the window.
Lucille (my computer) is not totally dead. When hooked up to an external monitor everything looks fine. And all the programs and files are not damaged. So it's in the shop hopefully being fixed for a reasonable price and everything is backed up on an external hard drive. It will make my life if my computer turns out ok.
I got invited for an interview for a real-life job! (At the local health department). It would be really amazing if things worked out for me. I have to give a ten minute presentation for part of my interview so I'm a little nervous about that, but I used to work there so I know the people who will be interviewing me. I have some work to do on that but I really want to do a good job!! And I hope I'm not still nasty sick by then.
I officially graduated on Thursday and Friday. It was kind of anti-climatic since I've been out of school since December but it was good to walk and do the whole cap and gown thing. I had my moment. I miss BYU a ton, and learning things. I feel like I never use my brain. Still working on becoming a full-fledged adult, working-for-a-living, know-what-to-do-with-the-rest-of-my-life, person but things are coming along. And now, since I can't download my pictures for my computer is in the shop, here are a few of Rachelle's pics from graduation!
Jason, me and Rachelle
Me and Rachelle excited to walk!
more to come when things get fixed
Thursday, April 15, 2010
M*A*S*H
Read this article and be amazed. This would be the scariest thing ever. I am so glad that there are people out there who are educated and trained well enough to make things like this happen.
(CNN) -- "I think we have a problem."
Lt. Col. Anthony Terreri, reading the CT scans of an injured soldier who'd just arrived at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, realized the shrapnel he saw lodged inside the soldier's skull wasn't really shrapnel at all. It was unexploded ordnance -- a live round of ammunition that could detonate at any time.
The young Afghani soldier had arrived less than an hour before, after an IED had flung shards of metal into his head.
"The internal part of the fragment was not solid metal, but it had a metal exterior," recalled Terreri. "There's an air gap at the end, a formed end at one side and the fragment was elongated."
He looked at a second scan, a side X-ray of the soldier's skull, to confirm his suspicions.
"The projectile was part of the bomb that went off," explained Maj. John Bini, who oversees all trauma care at Bagram. "People will pack just about anything in to these things: rocks, nails, screws, explosives."
Bini and his team immediately summoned an explosive ordnance disposal team to assess how risky it would be to conduct the surgery. The doctors needed to minimize the risk of setting off the ordinance.
They were told not to drop the explosive, prick it with a scalpel or let it be exposed to any electricity.
"We knew that any electrical current possibly could cause detonation."
Bini has been able to find roughly 50 similar cases in the history of modern warfare, but his team at Bagram was prepared. Nonessential personnel were immediately evacuated from the area and all electronic machinery was disconnected from the patient. Everyone else who remained donned flak jackets, including Maj. Jeffrey Rengel, who was manually administering anesthesia.
"We had to turn off all volatile anesthetics because they could increase the magnitude of an explosion," said Rengel, referring to a class of anesthetics that would have been used to calm the patient. Because they are vaporous, the danger would be magnified if there was an explosion and those gases were in the air.
"I resorted to counting the drips in my IV tubing to determine what was being delivered to the patient."
Using a blood pressure cuff, a battery-operated heart rate monitor and some good old-fashioned arithmetic, Rengel monitored the soldier's vital signs while Bini prepared himself to operate.
"The surgeon needed to be someone actually trained on how to do this, what procedures needed to be done. I was the one who knew how," said Bini.
"The Air Force has an emergency surgery course ...[and] I'm the course director."
Despite his training and his confidence, he was apprehensive.
"As I was putting my body armor on and getting ready to walk in to operating room, I was going to tell somebody that if anything happens, tell my wife and children that I love them," said Bini.
"But then I stopped myself. I didn't want to jinx myself," he said. "Surgeons are superstitious people."
The round hadn't penetrated the patient's brain but had caused a significant fracture; portions of his skull were compressed against the outside of his brain.
"I made a wide incision in the scalp down to the skull where I could lift off skin flap could actually see the projectile wedged underneath a flap of bone," Bini said.
Out of fear that using metal tools would detonate the explosive, Bini was forced to abandon his clamps and scalpels.
"I grabbed it with my hands, sort of worked it out, and really pulled it out with my hand."
He handed the shell over to the explosives handlers, who safely removed it from the hospital.
The doctors' skillful handling of the situation has drawn a lot of media attention. But they shrug it off as just another day at the office.
"We trained to go to war and do surgery at war," said Bini.
"I never thought I'd see one of these things in my lifetime, but you just prepare for it."
"You fall back on those skills that all physicians have, going back to the basics of your practice," said Rengel.
They argue the real heroes are the men and women on the front lines, not them.
"Those guys risking being blown up every day, those guys are the ones taking the big risk," said Terreri.
"We're safe compared to guys walking around down the roads."
(CNN) -- "I think we have a problem."
Lt. Col. Anthony Terreri, reading the CT scans of an injured soldier who'd just arrived at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, realized the shrapnel he saw lodged inside the soldier's skull wasn't really shrapnel at all. It was unexploded ordnance -- a live round of ammunition that could detonate at any time.
The young Afghani soldier had arrived less than an hour before, after an IED had flung shards of metal into his head.
"The internal part of the fragment was not solid metal, but it had a metal exterior," recalled Terreri. "There's an air gap at the end, a formed end at one side and the fragment was elongated."
He looked at a second scan, a side X-ray of the soldier's skull, to confirm his suspicions.
"The projectile was part of the bomb that went off," explained Maj. John Bini, who oversees all trauma care at Bagram. "People will pack just about anything in to these things: rocks, nails, screws, explosives."
Bini and his team immediately summoned an explosive ordnance disposal team to assess how risky it would be to conduct the surgery. The doctors needed to minimize the risk of setting off the ordinance.
They were told not to drop the explosive, prick it with a scalpel or let it be exposed to any electricity.
"We knew that any electrical current possibly could cause detonation."
Bini has been able to find roughly 50 similar cases in the history of modern warfare, but his team at Bagram was prepared. Nonessential personnel were immediately evacuated from the area and all electronic machinery was disconnected from the patient. Everyone else who remained donned flak jackets, including Maj. Jeffrey Rengel, who was manually administering anesthesia.
"We had to turn off all volatile anesthetics because they could increase the magnitude of an explosion," said Rengel, referring to a class of anesthetics that would have been used to calm the patient. Because they are vaporous, the danger would be magnified if there was an explosion and those gases were in the air.
"I resorted to counting the drips in my IV tubing to determine what was being delivered to the patient."
Using a blood pressure cuff, a battery-operated heart rate monitor and some good old-fashioned arithmetic, Rengel monitored the soldier's vital signs while Bini prepared himself to operate.
"The surgeon needed to be someone actually trained on how to do this, what procedures needed to be done. I was the one who knew how," said Bini.
"The Air Force has an emergency surgery course ...[and] I'm the course director."
Despite his training and his confidence, he was apprehensive.
"As I was putting my body armor on and getting ready to walk in to operating room, I was going to tell somebody that if anything happens, tell my wife and children that I love them," said Bini.
"But then I stopped myself. I didn't want to jinx myself," he said. "Surgeons are superstitious people."
The round hadn't penetrated the patient's brain but had caused a significant fracture; portions of his skull were compressed against the outside of his brain.
"I made a wide incision in the scalp down to the skull where I could lift off skin flap could actually see the projectile wedged underneath a flap of bone," Bini said.
Out of fear that using metal tools would detonate the explosive, Bini was forced to abandon his clamps and scalpels.
"I grabbed it with my hands, sort of worked it out, and really pulled it out with my hand."
He handed the shell over to the explosives handlers, who safely removed it from the hospital.
The doctors' skillful handling of the situation has drawn a lot of media attention. But they shrug it off as just another day at the office.
"We trained to go to war and do surgery at war," said Bini.
"I never thought I'd see one of these things in my lifetime, but you just prepare for it."
"You fall back on those skills that all physicians have, going back to the basics of your practice," said Rengel.
They argue the real heroes are the men and women on the front lines, not them.
"Those guys risking being blown up every day, those guys are the ones taking the big risk," said Terreri.
"We're safe compared to guys walking around down the roads."
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
they're still talking about it
My roommates and I were asked to introduce ourselves at ward prayer on Sunday. So what did we do? Nothing so boring like "Two truths and a lie" or "show-and-tell" but we reenacted one of our favorite SNL skits and changed the words to describe ourselves. I was the one portraying "Judise." The first is the original and the second is our version. Enjoy.
Our Version-you have to log in to Facebook
Our Version-you have to log in to Facebook
Friday, April 9, 2010
worst nightmare possible just realized
Today, while sitting with my computer on my lap, I coughed and spilled water I was holding onto my beautiful laptop. It beeped really loud, then I turned it off. Now when I turn it on I see no picture. I googled how to dry off computers and it pretty much said there is no hope. I am kind of freaking out. My ENTIRE LIFE is on that laptop. Pictures, papers I've written, journal entries, etc. I hold little hope in being able to recover it. Also, I have no money to pay to get it fixed. I have no money for anything. I'm using Rachelle's computer right now but I need a permanent fix. I feel naked, like the times where you forget your cell phone at home and are at school all day without it. You don't really need it and get along ok without it, but all the same you'd rather have it there. I am so distraught.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
GC
General Conference. Wasn't it awesome? As always. I watched three sessions on my computer and the fourth I got to attend the Conference Center. I think it's interesting to hear everyone's thoughts after the sessions are over, which talks influenced them and what they thought the overall theme was. To me the overall theme was families and how to raise a righteous generation. There were so many talks on familes. But I've heard others say trials, youth of the church, judgment, etc. I think we decide that based on where we are in life, and what we need to work on. What that says about me? I don't know.
My favorite talk was from Sister Beck. She came to my stake about a month ago to give a fireside and ended up doing a Q & A with everyone. I feel like her talk was a continuation of that meeting and it gave me a lot of help with personal revelation which is something I think a lot about and try to learn more. She said the ability to qualify for the spirit and act on it is the #1 thing we want. This comes as we have the desire, worthiness, keep the commandments, covenants, repentance, scripture study, daily prayer etc. Promised revelation comes as we move forward in faith. This appealed to me because I'm at a turning point in my life trying to decide what to do next. I'm attempting to move forward in faith so hopefully the revelation will come sometime. She also said we are doing well in this as we develop attributes of Christ. Which is our goal to become like Him. That's what I have from my notes, and I am for sure going to read this talk once they post them online. Sister Beck is just so awesome and a great lady. I really respect her for all the work she does in the church. Being RS president is hard, think about being RS president for the whole church?!
Another talk I really enjoyed was from Elder Holland. He doesn't hold any punches back and just tells things how they are. He speaks with a lot of power but also a lot of love. I always feel a lot of love from him when he talks. This session he spoke about pornography and its effects on families. He and his wife had just met three women who were all divorced and it started with pornography. I could tell the love he had for those sisters and with a fatherly kind of love, wanted to protect anyone else from it. Elder Holland said, like Jacob, it pained him to speak of these things, but it was out of love that he did. It also impressed me how he could take such a depressing topic and make the tone of the talk happy and hopeful. He even told a few jokes! And like always he had power in his words. A quote, "The same technology that allows me to do my family history and prepare names for the temple could, if unfiltered and unprotected, allow my children and grandchildren access to a global cesspool that could blow a crater in their brains." Wow. He also spoke about the differences between lust and love. Elder Holland is a great example of love. He spoke once at BYU and told a story about how he and his wife get places. He is always in a hurry and walks very fast, Pat is a slower mover and takes her time. If they both went their own paces they would never get anywhere together. He agreed to slow down and she agreed to speed up and now they get to hold hands when they walk together. I also like the scripture from Nephi that I need to look up the reference for, "I will give place no more for the enemy of my soul." Such a great talk.
I heard there are some great talks from Priesthood Session. I look forward to reading them soon.
I love listening to the words of the Apostles and Prophet. They are truly inspired men leading the church under Heavenly Father's direction. Now let's all go be and do good.
My favorite talk was from Sister Beck. She came to my stake about a month ago to give a fireside and ended up doing a Q & A with everyone. I feel like her talk was a continuation of that meeting and it gave me a lot of help with personal revelation which is something I think a lot about and try to learn more. She said the ability to qualify for the spirit and act on it is the #1 thing we want. This comes as we have the desire, worthiness, keep the commandments, covenants, repentance, scripture study, daily prayer etc. Promised revelation comes as we move forward in faith. This appealed to me because I'm at a turning point in my life trying to decide what to do next. I'm attempting to move forward in faith so hopefully the revelation will come sometime. She also said we are doing well in this as we develop attributes of Christ. Which is our goal to become like Him. That's what I have from my notes, and I am for sure going to read this talk once they post them online. Sister Beck is just so awesome and a great lady. I really respect her for all the work she does in the church. Being RS president is hard, think about being RS president for the whole church?!
Another talk I really enjoyed was from Elder Holland. He doesn't hold any punches back and just tells things how they are. He speaks with a lot of power but also a lot of love. I always feel a lot of love from him when he talks. This session he spoke about pornography and its effects on families. He and his wife had just met three women who were all divorced and it started with pornography. I could tell the love he had for those sisters and with a fatherly kind of love, wanted to protect anyone else from it. Elder Holland said, like Jacob, it pained him to speak of these things, but it was out of love that he did. It also impressed me how he could take such a depressing topic and make the tone of the talk happy and hopeful. He even told a few jokes! And like always he had power in his words. A quote, "The same technology that allows me to do my family history and prepare names for the temple could, if unfiltered and unprotected, allow my children and grandchildren access to a global cesspool that could blow a crater in their brains." Wow. He also spoke about the differences between lust and love. Elder Holland is a great example of love. He spoke once at BYU and told a story about how he and his wife get places. He is always in a hurry and walks very fast, Pat is a slower mover and takes her time. If they both went their own paces they would never get anywhere together. He agreed to slow down and she agreed to speed up and now they get to hold hands when they walk together. I also like the scripture from Nephi that I need to look up the reference for, "I will give place no more for the enemy of my soul." Such a great talk.
I heard there are some great talks from Priesthood Session. I look forward to reading them soon.
I love listening to the words of the Apostles and Prophet. They are truly inspired men leading the church under Heavenly Father's direction. Now let's all go be and do good.
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