This blog contains commentary on my life at college and at home. I have been recently including my pursuit for a better resident life here at my own school. This will be an ongoing theme among many posts intertwined with various other issues.
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Excerpt 1 (un edited):
" I often think from time to time of the last hour of my mother’s life. She was dehydrated, vomiting and restless. Her mental status continued to change from good to bad. Mom was an incredibly strong person when it came to dealing with medical problems as she had several severe ones. My family has assumed this was her "normal" problems and she would go to the hospital and be out in a few days.
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Once my mother got to the ER she was put on a cot and had a little room to herself. My grandfather was with her at the time. She wanted to have the nurse come in and see her for what reason, I’m unsure. Mom never saw it coming but next thing we know she went code "blue" and that was the beginning of the end..."
Excerpt 2:
"It seems that even after 10 yrs I still protect myself from what I fear most, the loss of everything, living on the streets, losing family, losing money, abuse, things of that nature.
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"Radio to 329 and ( badge # of officer ) , signal ( 4, 15, 5, pick one that you like) at ( address)."
( Note - not my towns actual police vehicle) For most people, the image of a cop cites a broad range of feelings– some positive and some negative – and most inaccurate. Police in my opinion are there to help. Of course there are times when it seems as if they are being unfair while writing you a ticket for speeding, or towing your car away. Overall the police are there to insure the publics safety. The police motto says "Protect and Serve". Just note I understand if you do not agree with me.
It’s hard to find a comparison that describes the joy of being in a police car going lights and sirens to a call. As I focus on the nature of the call when dispatched and the thoughts that run through my head at a high rate of speed makes everything else secondary in life. With the lights displaying and the sirens blaring, we rush to the call. Traffic moves to the side as we pass by at well over 80 mph. It’s a thrill.
What makes police work so great is that it’s never the exact same call or case as before. Every experience is unique. No one call is ever the same.
All of this is the stepping stones to a career in the FBI or Secret Service.
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Which to choose? I have a suspicion that the FBI has more room to go up the "corporate ladder" then the Secret Service does. I often weigh both these options and each time the FBI comes out ahead because of its diversity. I specifically want to work in Anti-/counter Terrorism and/or Homeland Security. For what ever reason, I find anti/counter-terrorism fascinating. To be able to help prevent what happened on
On the other hand protecting people is also something I would enjoy very much. Though as far as I understand, there is not an incredible amount of higher positions once you become an agent aside from the level of clients of which you protect. Of course what you can do is retire early and open your own protection firm, which is something I would seriously consider.
It's all a matter of time before I really narrow down what it is I want to do working for the feds. I just hope I don’t get shot and die too early in life... but then again when you sign up, that’s a risk you have to take to have the greatest job in the world.
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After receiving insulin-making cells from the pancreases of dead donors, Richard Lane of Bromley, Kent, no longer needs insulin injections.
For the transplant, healthy islet cells are taken from donor pancreases and are injected into the patient's liver.
Once there, they develop their own blood supply and begin to produce insulin. Insulin is something that most diabetics , type 1 pt.s dont make forcing them to take insulin shots several times a day.
Eventually this could mean the end of insulin dependence for all type 1 diabetes sufferers. But there was a shortage of donor pancreases from which to extract islet cells, which means they could not treat everyone with type 1 diabetes. The transplant work is moving forward all the time and hopefully it will become more widely available in the future.
( Thank you BBC for info )
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I got an email from John Kerry today asking me to add my name to a roll call of people who are against the soon to be drilling in
We must stop these insane policies that our wonderful president has created. There is nothing I support Bush on. Damn I am sick of him so much I will just about sign anything that puts his ideas down.
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I am getting frustrated with many things. For starters, I want to get the college process out of the way. Just when I thought I was done with applications and paper work, I now find myself filling out visa information, college applications. I just wish my guidance counselor would actually help me with this.
The odds right now in going to AUS for my first year of college are looking 60/40. It’s a matter of time between getting visa, passport, figuring expenses and other logistics in etc before I decide.
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Her name and brand is obviously very strong. Though there are new people in charge of her company I imagine she will be calling most of the shots soon enough. From Sears and K-Mart merging to a TV show which will be titled "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart." I must say I might just Tivo the first episode and watch it when I am really bored. She is going to be alright.
The real key to Martha's success in my opinion is that she has stayed strong and faced up to what was in front of her. She didn’t appeal, she didn’t delay her demise. She went fourth and I give her credit for doing so. Honestly I am surprised she survived prison. But I think I could do it too if I was Martha Stewart, an American icon and the world's first self-made female billionaire coming home to 132 acre estate. 5 months house arrest on 132 acres in a mansion doesn’t sound too bad to me. Not to mention a billion dollars to fall back on.
She really has everything she did before jail and maybe more. Before jail and the scandal her image began to fade. She became cliché and stagnate. Which makes everything she went through one of the best career moves she has ever made. Clearly prison and crime doesn’t do that to everyone (i.e. Wynona rider, where the hell has she been?) Martha is going to bounce back with more money and more popularity then ever before.
I find it strange I support her now. Before as I said, I really didn’t like her. She never the less did a “Good thing “(Famous Quote from Martha). She really faced up to her problems and I for one respect that. It’s not like she really did anything all that bad. Who hasn’t done a little inside trading, ha-ha.
My grandmother has even bought some of her stock I think. Buy now, be rich later.
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And God proclaimed " Let their be Tivo!”
Well what ever it was, it sure is a gift to society, or at least my mental well being. It’s become so hard to watch TV with out the abilities of tivo. Something about the system just knowing to record what and when is amazing. Pausing live TV also is a great feature.
I own a Tivo Series 2 DVR 40 hour. I love having it but I once thought having the 80 Humax Tivo with DVD player/recorder would be nice but then decided against it as I would likely only use it once in a great while. The problem with the 40 Hour version it that it deletes shows I wanted to watch. The Tivo 40 hour "policy" is out with the day old and in with the new. Unfortunately I can't always keep up with my tivo deleting rampage.
I think I solved my problems by not keeping as many Seinfeld’s on file and reducing the season pass manger to only new episodes of certain programs.
Bottom Line: Tivo is really great; just wish I had an 80 Hour.
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My Heritage :
I am 21. I am a full time college student in the Boston suburbs. I currently work for the college police and when I can, my hometown Police Department, as an Explorer/Auxillary. I am majoring in Criminal Justice with a minor in American Studies.
