Unorganized (3-19-12)

I feel like my priorities aren't straight. I feel like my duties are met spontaneously, and randomly, and it needs to stop. I'm usually very hard headed but there comes a time where someone gives me a reality check and I clearly see my flaws. That person was my younger sibling, my sister Mitzi. She's currently attending Mount Saint Mary's and she's a physchology major. She sees how I'm always out hanging with the buddies and she constantly asks for my whereabouts. Today she finally told me she was dissapointed in me for "acting high school." She told me she hardly ever saw me working on school work or reading a book, and she's right. That's as far as she went but that's all I needed to hear.

Arsenal fc (3-16-12)

I've been supporting the north london based team Arsenal since I was a little boy. I remember the season where they went undefeated in 2002 and that solitified my love for the club. Arsenal hasn't won a trophy since 2006 and these last 7-8 years have been tough. On the bright side, we've always been contenders, we're still a big club, never been relegated and it is very conceivable that we will soon get passed our drought and win a trophy again. A lot of people in latin america opt for the famous Real Madrid, or Barcelona but don't know their history. They just know that those two clubs are big clubs, arguably the top two teams in the world. Plenty of those bandwagons make fun of me everytime arsenal loses, but I don't get insulted, if anything I feel bad for them. They don't know what it feels like to genuinly love one club. After all, it's easy to go for the best teams.

KONY 12 (3-15-12)

Ahhh propaganda, the beauty of propaganda. Its ability to brain wash naive civilians into adopting ideals that the government carefully choose. That is precisely what I think about when I hear all this kony 2012 talk, and by no means am I trying to be different. I myself have succumbed to advertisements and stuff but it has helped me get smarter over the years, because at least now I know when the governement is blatantly throwing bs in my face. Now, I must clarify and confirm that I do believe Joseph Kony is out there abducting children, and recruiting them into his army. I also think this is horrible. I just don't buy into all the advertisement, I think the way they are going about it is flawed. First of all if you want to support a cause or make a change, resorting to social networking sites for promotion isn't going to take you far. It will solely get you recognition, popularity...you will be noticed, but the incentives end there. Catching a war criminal via facebook just isn't possible. Now, regarding the packets one must buy to spread the word, that makes more sense but despite its coherence I still have a problem with it. It's easily attainable. Any clueless moron can buy a kony 2012 package and post posters, and I'm pretty sure morons are more prevalent in society. In order to be a politician, a nurse, a lawyer, one must go to school and get the proper training for it. When the goverment is serious about a cause they give you these challenges and prerequisites. Now for this Kony 2012 thing, they aren't even promoting education, all you have to do is watch a 30 minute documentary, buy a package, and you're set. Just like all the professions I mentioned as examples, I think the kony campaign should offer classes on crimes against humanity, war crimes, so people can understand why Joseph Kony should be pursued and captured. The kony 2012 slogan is "nothing is more powerful than an idea." I beg to differ, the people who carry out the idea, the people who spread the idea, are far more powerful.

io, zlatan (3-14-12)

So today out of pure impulse I bought "I Am Zlatan," a memoir of the swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic that was available on iTunes. I'm not too savvy with all the new technology but ironically I'm taking advantage of all the perks the iPhone offers. I bought the memoir via itunes on my phone and instead of carrying a book I have it in my pocket. What's funny is that within 6 hours I'm almost done reading it all when I know damn well I should be reading LMNOP for my English class. haha

SELFISHNESS (3-13-12)

I was reading some of Thomas Hobbes' work and I noticed how pessimistic he was towards humanity. What I was reading specifically about was the necessity of government and why it is legitimate. Hobbes has the reader imagine a world without any form of government, or as he likes to call it, us in the "state of nature." According to him, humas are selfish by nature, so in the state of nature we'd also be in a state of war. We would be in a world where everyone's selfishness would take over in order to survive and we would be in war with ourselves. This is how Hobbes justifies the existence of government.

dreadful week (3-12-12)

This past week has been terrible for me in so many ways. I'm not one to complain and I'm not pitty's biggest fan, but sometimes things are so evident that we're left with no choice but to acknowledge them. Last Saturday my patient had wax build up in his ears so his hearing was almost all gone hence I had to scream the whole day so he can hear me.  By last Sunday I had a fever and my throat was killing me. Monday I felt so bad physically that I wasn't able to make it to Italian class, but by the evening my fever had gone away so I went to English class. As the week went by I was getting better and better but when it's not one thing it's another.

On Thursday I get documents in the mail, and it's a lawsuit against me. I'm getting sued for 20,000 dollars because I got in a car accident and I wasn't under my mom's insurance. They're basically charging me for medical bills, car loss, everything an insurance company would cover and I'm so distressed.

On Saturday my voice was going away and sure enough I lost my voice as the day progressed. The whole weekend I had to work with my voice coming back and then losing it again, and my patient's hearing was just as bad as it was last week. Not to mention he also got pink eye so I had to be real cautious and wash my hands thoroughly in order to avoid getting it.

Today, I got picked up from work by my mother and we went to see an attorney for advice. When we were sitting in the waiting room my mom was caressing my arm and she pulled up my shirt sleeve only to see a tattoo on her eldest son's arm. There we were, confinded in a small waiting room with the whole accident problem conquering our minds, and suddenly one more incident was piled on top of all that. What's crazy is that it all happened so fast yet her prolonged shocked face haunted me. I saw disgust, disappointment, distress, and death in her eyes, as if I got disowned right there and then. I gave her a brief explanation (upon request) only because she's worthy of one, but I knew that it wasn't the adequate place or time to be talking about my tattoo, much less dwelling on it. We had another problem; a bigger problem to face, so this tattoo issue will have to be put aside, theoretically of course.

Reminiscing (2-29-12)

Today I work with one of my patients for only 4 hours. Interestingly enough, on this day exactly a year ago he got an important phone call from the doctor. I remember the smile on my patient's face when he hung up, the doctor had told him he was no longer considered terminally ill. You see, my patient had contracted a bacteria called MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) while he was in the hospital 3 months prior to this phone call. This bacteria is very good at avoiding antibiotics because it likes to live in artificial parts of the body where not much blood circulates. In my patient's case, the bacteria was living close to the hip replacement he had gotten, which is really close to his spine, thus qualifying him as a hospice patient (terminally ill).  For 4 months the infectious desease doctors were looking for an antibiotic that would kill the bug without messing up his kidneys. They tried 3 different antibiotics but the MRSA lived up to its name and was totally resistant to them. Finally they found an effective antibiotic that  was assisting his t cells to fight off the bacteria. Before finding this drug my patient was under the impression that he was going to die in about 6 months, but after the doctor's phone call of hope here we are, a year later and my patient is stronger than ever. No more MRSA :)