Thoughts from ME

Today was my first day shadowing a local doctor here in Rexburg! We saw mostly old people and a few children, including a one year old baby. It was interesting to shadow the doctor and spend time in his office, getting to know the nurses while the doctor was in with patients I couldn't be in with for various reasons. The children were all so cute! And the old people SOOoooOo talkative, looking for someone to listen to them to distract them from their personal issues. There was a surprisingly large amount of waiting around while the doctor updated papers and charts, mostly on his laptop that he carried around with him to each appointment. I had not realized before how much paperwork was involved. The doctor said for each patient he spends roughly 20 minutes in paperwork. Even the nurses had a lot of paperwork to update. What do you call paperwork if it's on the computer?... computerwork...?  

For a class I had to read George Orwell's 1984. Here is my paper :) Read the book!  George Orwell’s powerful tale of the woes of totalitarianism is a poetic cry for the sanity of mankind, a cry for us to stand up and think for ourselves. In 1984 Orwell cries for humanity from the lips of Winston Smith, a man frozen in a world he cannot escape, a world full of people he views too empty-headed to be worth very much. I appreciated this powerful story and the message Orwell hoped to convey to his readers. Among the things that made this book great are the setting of a twisted London, the character of Winston Smith and his associates, as well as the storyline and the style used by Mr. Orwell.             What first captured my attention is the setting. This includes the odd view of London as well as the homes described. A powerful part of the setting was the description of the posters that showed the visage of “Big Brother”...

Hey all! I know it's been forever :)   I've been thinking recently about the brain and us, humans and how we just get so attached to things and then we can't really shake them. I don't just mean things that aren't good for us either. For example, people. We get really attached to people.  Here's a poem I really love by e.e.cummings that I think adequately shows what I'm talking about: i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows ...