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Destination: Physical Therapy School.
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backyard friday
Today, I lined up and bought a chainsaw.
Then, had some chainsaw therapy venting on the dead trees we needed to clear out.
And I thought, “How sick would it be to be a lumberjack, wielding a LIGHT SABER!?”
… You’d probably be called a Jedi-Jack.
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thanksgiving revelation
Today I decided that I’m going to spend the year 2013 in the Congo doing physical therapy and making a difference.
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Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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motorcycle
I’ve always wanted a bad ass american motorcycle ever since I was a kid but I always told myself that I wouldn’t get it, otherwise the speed demon dorming inside me would probably get me killed.
But then I was thinking today as I was driving down the freeway, when I turn 80 years old (if I make it, that is) am I going to regret not ever riding a motorcycle in my untamed youth?
The answer is yes. Hell yes.
So I’m going to wait another 5 years or so, hopefully I will have matured a bit more by then, and then I’ll get it.
Who am I kidding? I’m never gonna grow up LOL.
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Sweet, Imma try making it out to the one in SF this Sunday. Anyone down to go?
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headaches & the remedy
I’m not used to headaches. I know there are a bunch of people that get headaches or even migraines rather frequently, but after they get them so much they seem to find a way to cope with them.
I get a headache maybe once a month usually. Four days of a constant headache isn’t very fun. It’s not going away with my usual remedy of warm tea and/or some relaxing music. So I went with taking Advil on Saturday, which mildly helped.
Now my bottle of Advil is empty, my headache is intensifying, and today my neck became really stiff. The only thing that is remotely working is me lying on my bed, looking at the ceiling, pillows propping my head up ever so slightly, playing soft songs on guitar so I have something to occupy myself.
I’m really hoping this is over with by tomorrow.
The same things has been happening to me! I get stiff shoulders and cravings for sweets… and they only make it worse.
Granted, I’m not a doctor, but I’m gonna offer my 2 cents and hope it’ll help you guys out because even if you went to one, they’d probably just give you more pills which wouldn’t fix the problem.
If you’re having a headache, then there is literally something wrong going on inside your head, and while Advil might help, it only dulls the neurons telling you that there is a problem. If neurons are the messengers that allow you to experience life, consider Advil the wool condom of neurons, no good.
pwgirlcgchix: Your cravings for sweets might be indication that you’re lacking in glucose. Surprisingly, your brain is only 2% of your total body weight, but takes up 20% of your glucose consumption. To you, this means if you’re not consuming enough carbs you could be literally starving your brain. Try opting for healthy carbs that will sustain your energy because the intense sugar rush from candy might juice up the painful regions of your brain.
Both of you mentioned stiffness, which is a natural reflex when your body experiences pain. This contraction is meant to constrict the blood vessels in the surrounds area to provide more increased blood pressure and flow to the target area; this is your body’s natural defense mechanism, to provide more oxygen and nutrients to weakened areas.
The simple cure for most headaches and muscle stiffness is oxygen. If possible I would urge you to go out on a light jog or easy bike ride. In resting condition, you only use about 25% of the oxygen in your blood, but you can use upwards to 95% of the oxygen when you exercise. This allows more oxygen rich blood to penetrate deeper into the tissues of your brain and allows for greater waste disposal.
If exercise is not possible, then deep breathing exercises can also help. Try sitting down with your back straight up and taking slow deep breaths with your stomach, that signals your body to relax instead of breathing with your lungs which signals your body to become tense. (Ever notice that people who are pissed tend to take deep breaths by filling their lungs? And notice that people sleep by breathing with their stomach by pulling down on their diaphragm.)
Try this: 6 second inhale. Hold for 3. 6 second exhale. Hold for 3. Repeat. (Its normal if you can’t make 6 seconds at first, just try your best.)
As you progress through your breathing exercise, try dropping your shoulders down lower and lower with each breath, then focus on relieving the tension in the rest of your body. Typically, a mind in stress realizes tension in the physical body. The physical body can disrupt this neuronal circuitry by literally tricking the mind into being relaxed by becoming relaxed. Continue this for 10-15 minutes and you should at least feel better afterward.
Hope this helps!
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this is getting out of hand..
I just realized that I have a shit load of gloves!
1 pair for mountain biking.
2 pairs for weight lifting.
1 pair for the snow.
1 pair for just winter season.
1 pair for yard/construction work.
What can I say, gotta protect these money makers cuz they’ll be laying down some darn good therapy in a few years time!
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University of CA…priceless
I graduated from UCSD where this was filmed. Oh how I took it for granted that I was able to complete my degree there.
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Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can’t eat money.
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Unfortunately, we have an economic system and national philosophy based on the idea of every man getting rich. Impossible, unsustainable and bound for disaster from the start. Mankind’s entire idea of what constitutes an economy is about to come into question at some point soon. Not just in America, but all the other (over) developed nations too. We cannot manufacture our way out of it, or spend or invest pour way out of it, through a free market “green economy.” That’s what got us here in the first place. Superheated spending to pump up a malignant economic system that devoured the earth.
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the dollar effect?
From my perspective, these UC tuition hikes are nothing more than raises for UC executives. I’m not 100% that’s the case, but for the sake of the argument, lets for a minute just assume that to be true.
So, really, is that what money does to a person?
For a minute I literally sat here wondering what would possibly be running through my mind if I were one of those executives who signed the tuition increase. Obviously, they would not go home thinking that they could buy the new Call of Duty 2 for PS3. So what are they really thinking about as they drive home from the meeting and greet their kids at home? What do they say?
“Hey kids, its really been a long day. Gosh, where do I begin? I was getting mobbed by all these protesters complaining about tuition costing too much money and… What? Did gas really go up again? Goodness, who do these gas companies think they are?!”
I’m being serious here, what the fuck can they possibly be thinking about because they sure justified it while thousands of people openly disagreed and some even got arrested for it. At 32%, they better be building a brand new University! But they’re not.
And at the same time, I’m pretty sure most, if not all, of those executives would consider themselves a “good person” who donate to charities every now and then and have humanistic values that they themselves believe in.
So then, what gives?
Is it money? Are these executives so addicted to money that they are willing to sacrifice generations of youth and potential for it? Unless these executives go home at the end of the day and masturbate on the thought of students complaining, I see no other explanation.
At the same rate, I think we’re all susceptible to this greed. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
I guess what I’m saying is, pursue that dream, makes tons of money if you will, but don’t leave your character, morals, and values at home when you do it.
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to my kapamilya going tomorrow, be safe, stay strong. keep loving, keep fighting.
This sent chills through my spine. My prayers goes out to the safety of everyone working against this injustice.
Silly Regents, you have no idea what implications you have just set in motion. Sleep well, I trust you’ll need it.
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hey UC execs, i hope you choke on your paycheck and vomit your soul →
Regents are expected to approve yet another increase, arguing it’s needed to avoid further course reductions and staff furloughs. The plan draws statewide protests. Police arrest 14 at UCLA.
If they cut the salaries of higher level administrators across the board, including Pres. Mark Yudof (I thought the name was familiar—he used to work at UT) who makes over $900,000/year in pay and benefits, it would seriously help to fend off further furloughs and course cuts. You could cut Yudof’s salary alone by half and save the UC system almost half a million dollars. This site lists the salaries just of the chancellors of the various schools within the UC system. Not only have the salaries of administrators increased at a rate far beyond that of inflation, but the “perks” that go along with these salaries have increased as well. And by perks, I mean things like $125,000 relocation bonuses to move 70 miles.
Higher education “executives” (they used to be simply called administrators) have increasingly begun to use the universities as their own personal piggy banks, and this phenomenon is hardly limited to the UC system. I know how outraged I was when, year after year, tuition went up because the university supposedly couldn’t pay its professors or electricity bills or what have you, but on the coattails of these massive tuition hikes, there was often a pay raise included for administrators.
Public universities raised presidents’ pay an average of 7.6% in 2008. Tuition at public universities raised in kind: an average of 7.6%. When students are being told that these annual tuition increases that add hundreds of dollars to their bills every month are necessary to keeping university doors open, it seems unconscionable that the salaries and benefits packages of “executives” and higher level admins continues to go up.
But they do.
Humorously, the UC “executives” argued that their 5% pay cuts were helping them “share the pain” with their other employees and students. Nevermind that some employees experienced up to 10% pay cuts on far smaller salaries. Nevermind that they continue to jack up tuition prices on their students.
It’s offensive. I’m glad those students were out there protesting. More of us should be doing the same, if we are interested in seeing higher education become more affordable and reducing the absurd amount of debt so many students leave school with.
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zzzz.. yoga
So I’ve had a couple sessions of yoga so far, and yeah, its pretty amazing. I’m naturally very flexible so learning yoga wasn’t so bad for me.
I’m sure yoga is a bit different for everyone, but after finishing another session of hot yoga today, I’ve decided that for me, yoga is like uncorking the pool of energy between my ears and letting it all drain down my spinal cord and into my limbs.
Just one problem, it’s a very mellow pool of energy sitting up there, so all I want to do afterward is sleep (-_-)
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