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One of the group meetings I sat in on today was a simple meeting, where every member of the group was given a paper with this on it, and were asked their reaction to it, or what stood out to them. I just thought it was interesting and thought I’d share it.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

 

Max Ehrmann

Well today was the first day of my labs for mental health. For a few weeks now I have been dreading the thought of this day. I thought that not only would it be boring, but it would be weird to talk to someone with mental problems, one on one. I was really scared I’d say the wrong thing and they’d commit suicide or they’d like, I dont know, get all weird on me and I’d be super uncomfortable the whole time. Well, today came and lo and behold it went great! I actually didnt have a bad day at all, which is surprising, because everybody knows how Ive felt about nursing thus far. So anyways, I got there and we had our pre conference and got our assignments, and we were sent out to our wards. Somehow the only other two people in class I really talk to and I were assigned to the substance abuse unit. While I was getting information about my client for my paperwork out of his chart, I got to sit in on the first group therapy meeting of the day. It was interesting, really. They all had to introduce themselves, say why they were there, and then say a goal for the day. Everyone just looked like a normal person, and it was strange to hear them say things like they were addicted to cocaine and tried to kill themselves. I also got to sit in on another meeting. I liked watching the group meetings, it was interesting to see how the patients interacted with one another, and the person doing the meeting. My patient was addicted to alcohol and morphine and had 2 DUIs and had been fired because of his addictions. He was very cooperative and I was glad since he was my first mental patient ever. The time flew by, it was weird.

 So yeah, I havent minded mental health class too much so far. Even though I dont want to admit it, I kinda like it so far. Its more interesting than my other classes have been. Its kind of a good feeling to actually halfway enjoy something I have to do for school.

ps that cute little stripey cat is gone! I am sad. I cant wait til i have my own place to live so i can have my own little stripey cat to love on. 

There are like three thousand cats running around my campus but like none of them would ever let you pet them. Then all of the sudden there is a cat here that is really cute and stripey that will let you. I pet him on the way back from class. It made me happy.

I HATE being here. I hate my school more than I hate Rosie O’Donnell. So I just started Mental Health class, since nursing classes are only half semester classes. Our labs are on Tuesday and Thursday both, which sucks. So since we havent had enough class yet to know how to deal with mentally ill patients, tuesday and thursday of this week have just been regular class periods–but with lab hours. Yeah, thats right….I had to sit though 4 hours of the most boring crap ever today. The worse part was that most of it was like common sense stuff, aka "If a patient gets out of hand, remove yourself from the situation", "Dont give patients personal information such as your last name or phone number", or "Mentally ill patients need attention". For FOUR hours. Me and this girl named Emily in my class who is also from Ohio made jokes though. That was the only part I liked. Like there was this part and its like "What do you say to your client if they say they want to kill themselves because of this and that blah blah blah etc problems?" So we were all "if its that bad, just do it" and it was funny.

http://www.chickenhead.com/bottom50/fetishes.asp

 Bottom 50 fetishes. My favorite:

4. Consumer electronics owners manuals read aloud through a snorkel by a sunburnt pygmy wearing a fruit leather saddle

Do not purchase a "Passionfruit" smoothie from KRs. It tastes like an armpit crossed with a mango.

yeah they told us in kindergarten not to plug/unplug things with wet hands. I just did, and nothing bad happened to me.

go here.

I couldnt ever do that, cuz i dont want to fail, but I did turn this in for credit once.

I got this idea from http://www.davidpean.com/translation/ . Basically what you do is put some text in the translate box and translate it to another language, and then back into english. Its very funny so I decided to put in a few things of my own to see what I could come up. Also, it is a lot of fun to put in movie quotes and stuff like that.

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A COUPLE OF NAPOLEON DYNAMITE QUOTES

Kip:
Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes
all day. Besides, we both know that I’m training to be a cage fighter.

Kip: Napoleon, are not jealous, which I chatted on-line with babies all day. In addition we know both that I train, in order to be a framework fighter.

//

Rex: At Rex Kwan Do, we use the buddy system. No more flying solo. You need somebody watching your back at all times.

Rex: To Rex Kwan, we use the system of the companion. More single flight. You have need of someone that watches always your posterior part.

Napoleon Dynamite: You know, there’s like a butt-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting me to join because I’m pretty good with a bow staff.

Dynamite De Napoleon: You know, you have as a butt-load of the groups in this school. This a group was remained to want to join me because I am good pretty with a team of employees of the curve.

//

Kip: Your mom goes to college.

Kip: Its breast goes to the university.

Napoleon Dynamite:
Tina, you fat lard, come get some DINNER!… Tina, eat. Food. Eat the FOOD!

The Napoleon the die it will be born thu: The Tina it spreads out and the pig flag lum, it comes, it gets, el the E for formal dinner! The Tina eats. Food. Eat the food!

RANDOM QUOTES

Princess Leia: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope.

Princess Reads: She helps Me, Obi-Obi-Wan Kenobi; you hope is mine only.

Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up…half-witted…scruffy-looking nerf-herder!

Leia king woman: Were you…… why attached on the half witted which the nerf-herder the scruffy is seen?

(star wars of course)

Stacy’s mom has got it going on.

The breast of Stacy has it ignites.

(Stacy’s Mom by Fountains of Wayne)

//

Friends, Romans, and Countrymen! Lend me your ears.

Friend and building rice field person of Romans! Your ear lend me!

(Shakespeare)

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Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”

Small Horner Cat seated in a corner,
eating empanada of Christmas;
It put in his thumb and removed a plum tree,
and said, “what good boy is I”

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feel free to add some in the comments section, if you make any funny ones.

from superdickery.com. cute site.

for spring break. i get to do nothing until next monday. then i start mental health class for nursing and get to talk to psych patients. should be interesting maybe. but maybe not.  ps savetoby.com is fake, i read it somewhere on an urbanlegends site.