A quick trip to the ER

I don’t know why but I see to be in a little unlucky streak here. I know I’m a clumsy person but this is kind of ridiculous. On friday night I was in one of my friends room and i was sitting on the floor while watching a movie. Something really funny happened and I uncontrollably started laughing. When ever I laugh i tend to use my whole body and I sway back and forth and so on. Anyway, so I was laughing and I turned my head really quickly and slammed by head against my friends desk. It seemed ok for about 5 seconds and then all of a sudden the cut on my head just started gushing with blood. My friend bandaged up my head and called campus security to take me to the ER. They ended up having to give me 8 stitches on the inside and they glued the outside, which i didn’t even know was possible. I was so embarrassed, but I did think it was pretty funny. This was not the first time i have injured myself while laughing. Once I was laughing really hard when i was in 8th grade and i hit my mouth on some bleachers and my braces when up into my gums. But looking back I think its pretty funny. After I got back i decided i was gonna call my dad and let him know. When i told him he started cracking up and said “this is definitely going on the christmas card!” he continued by saying “Maybe you should just wear a helmet from now on.” ha. my mom on the other hand didn’t think it was as funny as me and my dad did. Overall I’m not badly injured and thats all that really matters.

 

The Cabin!

Ok so over reading break me and 3 of my friends decided to go up to my cabin. My cabin is in Ely, MN which is like way way up there by the boundary waters, and like 5 miles away from canada, or something like that. It takes about 5 hours to get there, 4 is you speed but i don’t recommend that. We went home and we had a big yummy home cooked meal and then spent the night in the city visiting different friends and what not.

we left for the cabin the next morning. we originally said we would leave at 9am, that got pushed back to bout 4pm lol. My mom told me that she called the snowplow guy and he was gonna plow the little dirt road by the cabin. she also said that the heat and the water was gonna be turned off. We decided we would rough it and sleep next to the woodburning stove ,pee outside and melt snow for water.

However when we got up there, there was no snow. so we didn’t really have anyway to get water. Luckily it was warm enough to keep the entire cabin warm with a small fire. So we actually got to sleep in beds which was good. And luckily I ran into the landowner gut who controls all the water and heat and he said that he would turn the water on for the weekend since we were up there.

So all in all it was a really fun weekend. we ended up just sitting around the fire all day and night talking and playing games because it was too cold to go outside. I would say it was a successful weekend.

 

Puppy

So I have this puppy, his name it sewart but we call him stewie. He is this crazy little yellow lab who is one year old. The problem is we found him so we don’t exactly know if he had any bad experiences earlier in life. For some reason, we dont know why but he is afraid of tiled floors and wood floors, we think he might have slipped and gotten hurt sometime before we got him. The sad thing is our entire house is wood floors. So this poor little puppy is terrified of our entire house. The funny thing is that he learned that if he walks backwards he wont see the shiny floor so he is not afraid. So Stewie has now learned the entire house by heart so he doesn’t bump into any walls or anything, he can even climb the stairs backwards. I got a call from my sister saying stewie was walking backwards through the kitchen when he bumped into a chair. He didn’t know what to do so he managed his way under the chair oppose to going around it. haha company always has a confuse face on when they see our dog walking backwards around the house. as goofy as he is i love him and he is one of the sweetest dogs.

 

my weekend

So this past weekend my friend from my floor invited me to her hometown for the weekend. She lives in a random little town in the middle of nowhere. Her closest neighbor was about a mile away, so literally in the middle of nowhere. Im from the cities so i don’t know farm life all that well so it was a new experience for me. We went to visit her friends and stuff and it was really fun but they all live on different types of farms which was just interesting to me. We went to her one friends farm for a bonfire, she lived on a dairy farm. Now i have never in my life seen a cow up close. THEY ARE SO BIG! it was scary. she invited me to go see all of them and there were so so so many cows. Then she said wanna milk one? This is when i felt like the stupid city girl because this was part of their everyday life and I had no idea how to milk a cow. She taught me and it wasn’t all that hard actually, for some reason i thought it was gonna be hard. Then while we were there two cows went into labor! we didn’t want to see any of that so we decided we would go eat. When we came back though we got to play with really really cute little calfs. it was a really fun weekend overall, and now i can say i milked a cow

 

Just one of those days

So for the past two or three months I have been planning on returning this extra book that I bought. I finally yesterday decided to bring it back to the bookmark. I was running to the library for about an hour and then was going to return it on my way to dinner. I had some coffee that i had brought and put it right behind my laptop… of course I knocked it over. The coffee spilled all over the table all on the carpet and all over my book. To make things even better the lady at the bookmark said that i couldn’t return it now because it wasn’t in new condition. so now i have to sell it for half the price sometime in december. Now this next part I’m really embarrassed about, but I’m going to tell you anyway. So after dinner I was going to go workout but the top little thing of my headphones had fallen off. I remembered that for some reason my dad had sent me superglue in his last package for me. I superglued the piece back on and then put my headphones in and went to workout. I bet you all know what coming next. So at the end of my workout I pull on my headphone to take them out and my left headphone was superglued to my ear! apparently some of the glue dripped down the sides. Anyway i had to rip it out and it was very painful. On top of that I went to the caf after i worked out and grabbed another cup of coffee. Right before i put the lid on I turned around and slipped on a piece of ice that fell on the floor. I ended up spilling my coffee AGAIN! It was a bad day but I have to admit, it was pretty funny looking back on it now.

 

Hillstrom museum

last week I went to the Hillstrom art museum with my art history class. I know everyone has already been there but i was sick on that day so this was my first visit. we had to focus on a group of artwork named Los Cuadros. I really liked looking at these and then reading the brief explanation. All of the pieces of artwork told a story. All of these stories were true and tell a lot about the history of south america. they kind of remind me of cave paintings. there are no words yet they tell a story. I think they took them down already but if you ever have the chance to see them i would recommend it!

 

Lecture

I went to a lecture last week about medical torture. It was actually quite interesting however disturbing at the same time. One thing i learned in this lecture is that a doctor can be accused of medical torture even if they didn’t participate. For an example there was a beating of about 6 prisoners by the guards, one of the guards got kicked or something so a nurse came to the prison to check if he was ok. She saw the prisoners lying on the floor all beaten up and left without telling anyone what was happening inside the prison. She was accused of participating in medical torture. Many doctors have witnessed guards or others torturing prisoners to death and then once they had died they would say “I think he died of a heart attack” and then  on the death certificate would write down died of natural causes. I thought this was just way too disturbing

 

Nobel Conference

I went and watch Dr. David Seldak and Nancy somebody :/ i forgot her last name. I found them both very interesting, I thought Dr. Seldak was just hilarious, we kept cracking jokes about MN. Also during Nancy’s speech a spider had crawled onto her microphone, it kind of distracted her for about 15 minutes before someone finally came and killed it, its was kind of funny as well. I took a lot of environmental classes in high school, also my mom works at the arboretum so I have prior knowledge about these kinds of topics but I also learned a lot. In my AP Environmental Science class last year we talked a lot about the water systems in California and how they are taking water from resources all over that part of the country, also how they are disrupting not only the Colorado river (it doesn’t make it to the gulf of mexico anymore) but also agricultural workers and certain recreational activities. There was this one lake that we talked a lot about and I cant remember what it is called but california drained it entirely, the only thing left is a dry valley. I don’t know if it’s just because I grew up with a mother that was constantly making us learn about environmental issues and taking different measures to “save the earth” or what but I love learning about these kinds of things. I cant wait for next year, i believe the topic is food! not only do i just love food! but my family actually was interviewed and the paper wrote a story about our family thanksgiving. My entire family lives in Minneapolis or close by and every thanksgiving we grow and make everything that we use for our thanksgiving meal, including spices! and if we cant grow it, there is a rule that we can’t get anything that is more than 50 miles away from the house that hosts thanksgiving dinner and it has to be organic, we will go to a farm and watch them kill the turkey, i don’t go because i think its sad but thats the measures our family goes to. I think it all started with my mother (of course) talking about how much it takes for a piece of fruit to make it from the farm our wherever it is grown to the grocery store. it is a little ridiculous, anyway now its become a tradition for our family and its kind of fun actually. my aunt and uncle even made the wine! I thought that was pretty cool.

 

H1N1

so I missed about a week of classes a few weeks ago because i got H1N1. It was actually kind of depressing, I had to go home on sunday because i had a temperature of 104 and about 5 other symptoms of the flu. Then i had to go to the hospital later that night because I started becoming short of breath, so we went to the hospital and they told me that my lungs were filling up with fluid and if it got worse I had to come straight back because I could have drowned to death but luckily it only got better so i didn’t have to go back. I guess the saddest part was my entire family would not go anywhere near me without gloves and masks on. Granted my family is a bit dramatic, and they are kind of germ freaks. I was quarantined in my room and couldn’t leave for anything. My dad did let my puppy come up and spend time with me, that was about the only confrontation I had with any living thing all week, but thats ok I liked seeing him Also about a week later both my brother and my mom got sick and they called to blame me ha oh well I’m better and thats all that matters to me.

 

The Nacirema’s

Today in an earlier class we were discussing a group of people named the shamans and their shamanistic beliefs and customs. As we read this article we were all shocked at the things they would do and to us it seemed unthinkable. I thought back and I had been in a similar situation back in my 8th grade geography class. My teacher had given us a very similar article and the same types of reactions were shared between all of us. Im pretty sure most of you probably have heard about this article before. It is about a group of people called the Nacirema’s, it explains there everyday life. I found this article and posted it in the link below. It is actually quiet interesting and I think everyone would enjoy it. Plus there’s a twist

Nacirema

So I think you might have figured this out already but Nacirema is American backwards. What I think the purpose of this article is, is to show people that we all have customs and such that can look and seem silly to others, even our own. I think this article really makes you think, I think that it shows how much we judge others when in reality we all have our own traditions that can truly look insane when looking at them from the outside looking in.

We also kind of talked about this after watching the “In My language” video in class. The person talks about how they feel like when others look at them on the street, they would become suspicious, they would think that something was off or wrong. But this is how the person with autism feels about the so called “normal” way people act, the way one is supposed to act in public to be accepted by others. I think this article, and the video can kind of go hand in hand. Its hard for me to explain but it think that many people with autism may feel similar to this. They may feel like people are looking at what is just their normal life, their “language” if you will and are judging them and their lives and making it seem unacceptable.

Im not sure if I really expressed this the way I was trying to, I hope I got my point across, but anyway I just think it is something we all can think about.