虛擬世界的交替

不太健康但不能少的中秋煙燻及致癌物讓人想做點健康的球類運動,
於是去網球場湊熱鬧,待曬了太陽流了汗,又躲回屋內玩貓去了 (超級友善的貓)
虛擬的週末從此開始--PS2
才打完網球的腿無法承受跳舞機的折騰,因此過沒多久,遊戲機中的跳舞機片子就換成刀槍射殺,
舞曲變槍聲,手中握著電玩槍,心中不再有健不健康的疑慮,
對著螢幕一陣掃射,拿到武器,宰了敵人,這才過癮 (當狙擊手應該蠻累的 玩一關手就快抽筋了)
縱使已經遠離PS2數小時,仍逃不過另一個虛擬世界--網路,
現實世界有什麼讓我想逃避或宣洩的因素?下週的實習,報告,教材,開會....??
從網路上 再遁入無法判斷真假的文字世界它們要傳遞的訊息又是什麼?也或許 它們只是原作發洩的管道而已,要傳遞的也不過如此...
就像我現在一樣 @_@想到這裡,也覺得累了,我需要進入下一個虛擬世界--夢鄉.很久沒這麼晚睡了呢

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[聽力實習] First AR lecture

Here's how the aural rehab session went:First session of aural rehab course--hearing loss.
-Self-intro and case history/interview.
-Brief intro to anatomy and physiology of the ear.
-Problems, causes and treatments.(So far so good...I love to chat with old ladies about ear structure and other things)
-Full hearing evaluation battery (things started to get fuzzy)
-Licensure: Honestly, if I were hard of hearing and needed to see an audiologist, that license would mean everything.
Actually, any other profession as well, show me the license and I'll eat it. I'd believe you went through all the torture necessary to get that piece of paper and paid big bucks annualy to keep it in your hands, but I'm just not interested in knowing what that torture was, and was thus considerately reluctant to bombard my audience (and myself) with licensure process, but oops, that made my supervisor jump in and expand the talk....eyh...
-Ototoxic medications: drugs that might damage your hearingIt was overall productive. The energetic old lady had great stories about how to raise 4 boys 1 girl and keep a husband without going crazy.

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[聽力實習] Help for Your Hearing

Here's one thing that's been giving me belly pain.There's a six-week course in a senior center advertised as "Help for Your Hearing."And why would I care? Boo, a big surprise this semester, coz I'm lecturing it.In this grad program, audiology classes and practicum to a speech-language pathology student, me, are usually something like "Music and Life" in the undergrad.It never occurred to me that I really have to know my stuff and lead an aural rehabilitation program for the elderly.Traumatized mental status is only capable of dusting hearing textbooks and notes, and definitely not good at absorbing them.Although I managed to make really nice handouts, now it's four hours from the lecture, and I haven't made up my fancy review activity as I promised in the course outline.Uh...I'll think of something..efficiency won't occur until the very last minute.BTW, today my lecture will be on "hearing loss." Anyone interested?

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[實習] Non-continuous

Outpatient ctr. is such defined by D.: a non-continuous experience training placement.A possible brain injury here, and an accent reduction there; a demented yet intelligent guy here (who, by the way, refused to eat anything in a swallow study..uh, we usually can work around stubborness, but this was a bit challenging), and a talkative lady with a straight-forward voice abuse problem there.Oh yeah, tomorrow is always a new day, with new patients and very little information about them. I find it challenging and less stressful in the sense that there's really very little planning we could do on these cases.

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[實習] Behind the mask

(I'm not free from school yet, but I find it fascinating to cheat during work..)Just got back from my outside practicum, and rushed into the office to fulfill my commitment. As I was booting up the computer, this blog thing sneaked into my mind. So, as soon as I got everyone thinking that I'm working delegently, I switched to the wretch blog window.I had to sketch down my unsuccessful/unprofessional morning with patients. Apraxia, paraphasia, and dyslexia may be part of the picture. My mouth was slower than my mind, my mind slower than my voice, and frequently, my mind couldn't decide on what to ask and things just froze. Since that silence was killing me (i.e. with a pair of "supervising" eyes 3 feet away), I embarrassingly started using non-sense fillers like "uh, um, let's see, okay" during the interview. Of course, as "smooth" as things went, my meaningless notes were not a surprise to me. I certainly hope this is a single episode. Despite screwing up on my part, we had the most pleasent patient today.

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