The last day of January. Let's prepare for February. A lot going on...but it's a short month, so will fly by!
I slept in today :) Yesterday I had training for Resounding Joy, so I couldn't sleep in at all (training from 9-6pm). I had a late night on Friday--went to Jenn's parents house for a very nice dinner! Ryan and his dad were there. It was so great to see everyone and to have a home cooked meal :)
Tomorrow, the team has a presentation for the Integrative Center at Scripps. I have several articles to read and then to present to some important people. Hopefully all goes well.
February will be a busy month with a few presentations, my first time leading various sessions, and tons of work.
Only 18 days until I will visit Teren.
Today I will go grocery shopping, maybe check out the outlets(?), and get some work done, as well as practice guitar.
Month 2, here I come.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey
I've got that song stuck in my head...gonna set my heart at ease.
I had a good day. Left the office at 6pm to come home and finish up my "You're the Boss!" assignment. There are 9 units total and units 1-3 are due tomorrow. I just finished up. Coming up with your own company is a time consuming process. Lot's of work...but if I ever do end up starting my own company down the line, I've got all my resources in one convenient place.
Week 4 is just about done. Was it just me or did this 1st month of internship fly by? phew.
I don't have any pictures to show you, but I'll put one up that is on my computer desktop.
Happy Friday, all!
Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey :)
I had a good day. Left the office at 6pm to come home and finish up my "You're the Boss!" assignment. There are 9 units total and units 1-3 are due tomorrow. I just finished up. Coming up with your own company is a time consuming process. Lot's of work...but if I ever do end up starting my own company down the line, I've got all my resources in one convenient place.
Week 4 is just about done. Was it just me or did this 1st month of internship fly by? phew.
I don't have any pictures to show you, but I'll put one up that is on my computer desktop.
Happy Friday, all!
Gonna Take a Sentimental Journey :)
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The Subconcious is Freaking Me OUT!
Let me tell you all about my mandalas!
Today I was reading the MARI Book (a book that tells you what your mandalas mean..after you draw them) and found out some pretty fascinating things about 3 of my 6 mandalas.
Mandala #2 "Spiral" I used my two favorite colors: Turquoise and Purple
It fit perfectly into Stage #1 titled "The Void". "In sexual relations lacks the sensual or intimate" The purple meant, "Marks the 1st grief of separation. The leaving of the Beloved! May have a programming of self-sacrifice". The aqua color meant, "Attempting to heal the trauma that may have occurred at these levels". CRAZY?! YES. So..honey, that means I miss you and am still trying to recover from saying goodbye to you 4, almost 5 weeks ago. When I read this one I seriously had a Twilight Zone moment.
Mandala #6 "The Beginning" I had to listen to music while drawing
This one fit into Stage #4 titled "The Beginning". Ironic, much?? Totally freaking me out...same title that I gave my mandala. The pink represents "dependent, lacks energy, may also be at a place to rest and get nurtured, massage might be good". Ya, I'll take a massage. Not lacking energy yet, but maybe when I look at the mandala in say, oh..3 months. The royal blue represents "receptive/intuitive, going back to depths--good mother". I feel that as a MT, I have to be receptive to people's needs, concerns, tension, pain, etc, and as a MT we have to follow our intuition. The "healthy blues" signify "passivity and dependence on the feminine (co-dependence dynamics)". I saw this as me being dependent on my senior interns. I feel myself getting a little uneasy and nervous for having to go out on the hospital floors by myself. With time.
#5 "Mystery" draw mandala on black paper
This mandala fit into Stage #8 called "Functioning Ego". I didn't have time to look up what each specific color meant, but the description of the stage says enough on its own. "One has to come into full adulthood with an identity in the world, is able to be focused, and to be a mature person. One may also be concerned about their career or what they want to do. The specialist lives here".
Throughout this internship, I hope to find my identity as a Music Therapist. Before starting only 3 weeks ago, I thought I wanted to work with children with physical and mental disabilities. I may have already proven myself wrong.
So...try out the mandalas. They are quite amazing and can teach you a lot about yourself...things you never knew!
xoxo
Today I was reading the MARI Book (a book that tells you what your mandalas mean..after you draw them) and found out some pretty fascinating things about 3 of my 6 mandalas.
Mandala #2 "Spiral" I used my two favorite colors: Turquoise and Purple
It fit perfectly into Stage #1 titled "The Void". "In sexual relations lacks the sensual or intimate" The purple meant, "Marks the 1st grief of separation. The leaving of the Beloved! May have a programming of self-sacrifice". The aqua color meant, "Attempting to heal the trauma that may have occurred at these levels". CRAZY?! YES. So..honey, that means I miss you and am still trying to recover from saying goodbye to you 4, almost 5 weeks ago. When I read this one I seriously had a Twilight Zone moment.
Mandala #6 "The Beginning" I had to listen to music while drawing
This one fit into Stage #4 titled "The Beginning". Ironic, much?? Totally freaking me out...same title that I gave my mandala. The pink represents "dependent, lacks energy, may also be at a place to rest and get nurtured, massage might be good". Ya, I'll take a massage. Not lacking energy yet, but maybe when I look at the mandala in say, oh..3 months. The royal blue represents "receptive/intuitive, going back to depths--good mother". I feel that as a MT, I have to be receptive to people's needs, concerns, tension, pain, etc, and as a MT we have to follow our intuition. The "healthy blues" signify "passivity and dependence on the feminine (co-dependence dynamics)". I saw this as me being dependent on my senior interns. I feel myself getting a little uneasy and nervous for having to go out on the hospital floors by myself. With time.
#5 "Mystery" draw mandala on black paper
This mandala fit into Stage #8 called "Functioning Ego". I didn't have time to look up what each specific color meant, but the description of the stage says enough on its own. "One has to come into full adulthood with an identity in the world, is able to be focused, and to be a mature person. One may also be concerned about their career or what they want to do. The specialist lives here".
Throughout this internship, I hope to find my identity as a Music Therapist. Before starting only 3 weeks ago, I thought I wanted to work with children with physical and mental disabilities. I may have already proven myself wrong.
So...try out the mandalas. They are quite amazing and can teach you a lot about yourself...things you never knew!
xoxo
Monday, January 25, 2010
Intern #95
So..I am intern number 95! Just found out last week that I am the 95th intern at MusicWorx. Cool, ya? That's a lot of interns!
Today was a good day. Everything went smoothly--nothing out of the ordinary. Symposium went well. We had to go over AMTA.Pro, which is an online podcast thingy. Music Therapists put articles online and they record themselves reading it..kinda neat. Today we went over Group MT for Children and MT Reimbursements. Who knew getting a reimbursement for a MT session could be so involved??? yikes. Anyway, if you are a MT student, intern, etc..I highly recommend you check out the AMTA.Pro site. Just go to the AMTA website, then at the right side find AMTA.Pro...then select the article(s) you are interested in! Snap.
I will leave you tonight with a picture! The sunset tonight was beautiful outside our office! I got a quick picture on my cell phone and you can see my reflection, the office reflection, and the sunset all in one...Enjoy.
Tomorrow we will be at the hospital all day. I hope to get signed off of documentation this week!
xoxo
Today was a good day. Everything went smoothly--nothing out of the ordinary. Symposium went well. We had to go over AMTA.Pro, which is an online podcast thingy. Music Therapists put articles online and they record themselves reading it..kinda neat. Today we went over Group MT for Children and MT Reimbursements. Who knew getting a reimbursement for a MT session could be so involved??? yikes. Anyway, if you are a MT student, intern, etc..I highly recommend you check out the AMTA.Pro site. Just go to the AMTA website, then at the right side find AMTA.Pro...then select the article(s) you are interested in! Snap.
I will leave you tonight with a picture! The sunset tonight was beautiful outside our office! I got a quick picture on my cell phone and you can see my reflection, the office reflection, and the sunset all in one...Enjoy.
Tomorrow we will be at the hospital all day. I hope to get signed off of documentation this week!
xoxo
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Week 4
Bring on week 4!
Saturday I went to the McDonald's Center presentation. It was about the 28 day, in patient drug and alcohol addiction facility. It was very informative and touching. After that ended, I drove home, well to the car dealership (my pesty little engine light likes to pop up every-so-often) and then home. I had a lazy afternoon working on some MusicWorx stuff. We had dinner at the Nov's house. Mom is still vacationing it up in New Zealand/Australia. She comes back a week from Tuesday.
Sunday morning--slept in! Did some more work, watched football with the boys (go colts and saints!), then left for La Jolla at 1:45. I had to be at the office at 2:45 because we had "Alternative Happy Hour". Resounding Joy partners with this group which offers things such as yoga, toning, acupuncture, massage, Qi Gong, sound healing, and community drumming (Resounding Joy). So..the event lasted from 4-8pm and we did a drum circle from 7-7:45. The drum circle was tons of fun..the rest of the three hours was a bit boring, but we had a booth so we had to be there...
I finished up some work tonight and now I am off to bed. Early morning tomorrow. 2 events on the weekend made my weekend very short. I feel jipped. oh well.
I will leave you tonight with my last 2 mandalas.
#5: Mandala on black paper
Title: Mystery
#6: Listen to music while drawing
Title: The Beginning
Saturday I went to the McDonald's Center presentation. It was about the 28 day, in patient drug and alcohol addiction facility. It was very informative and touching. After that ended, I drove home, well to the car dealership (my pesty little engine light likes to pop up every-so-often) and then home. I had a lazy afternoon working on some MusicWorx stuff. We had dinner at the Nov's house. Mom is still vacationing it up in New Zealand/Australia. She comes back a week from Tuesday.
Sunday morning--slept in! Did some more work, watched football with the boys (go colts and saints!), then left for La Jolla at 1:45. I had to be at the office at 2:45 because we had "Alternative Happy Hour". Resounding Joy partners with this group which offers things such as yoga, toning, acupuncture, massage, Qi Gong, sound healing, and community drumming (Resounding Joy). So..the event lasted from 4-8pm and we did a drum circle from 7-7:45. The drum circle was tons of fun..the rest of the three hours was a bit boring, but we had a booth so we had to be there...
I finished up some work tonight and now I am off to bed. Early morning tomorrow. 2 events on the weekend made my weekend very short. I feel jipped. oh well.
I will leave you tonight with my last 2 mandalas.
#5: Mandala on black paper
Title: Mystery
#6: Listen to music while drawing
Title: The Beginning
Friday, January 22, 2010
3 Weeks Down!
This week flew by! The rain made our week a bit inconvenient, but overall...a good week.
Wednesday
I went to Teri, Inc. Led a Hello song and 1 intervention. The day went by so quickly! Thank goodness, because when we did our orientation and observations, the day felt sooo long! When in action it goes by like a snap! It was fun and I am learning a lot from Terri, the Music Therapist there.
After Teri, Inc., we had D (rett's syndrome), then had to head BACK to the office! geeze. Wednesday nights for the next 6 weeks we have Polster group which is a Scripp's funded Music as Medicine class for women with cancer. It was pouring all day Wednesday and we didn't know if anyone would show up! We lugged all our equipment, in the rain mind you, and 1 person showed up! 5 on 1 service..hahah. Barbara goes to Polster sessions. It was pretty cool though. It was an overview of what is to come the next 5 weeks of the class. We went over drumming, breathing techniques, relaxation exercises, toning, and other cool stuff. It wasn't until 8pm when I left the office.
Thursday
Glenbrook hospice. 2 of my patients that I saw last week passed away. It is really sad to think about it, but at least I know that I helped either ease their pain, put a smile on their face, or just sing them a song. M, the client I talked about last week (the one who wasn't breathing for like 30 seconds at a time) passed, as did another woman who we saw with her family.
Supervision with Barbara was on Thursday! We went to Panera, had a nice lunch, and then sat there for another 2 hours discussing our internship: expectations, schedule, projects, case study, student competencies/evaluations, documentation, interns....the list goes on and on. It was overall a good meeting.
Back to the office at around 2:45 to finish up Inventory! We finally finished!!! Left the office at 5:00pm!
After leaving the office, I got a lovely message from Aunt Ronna inviting me to meet her, Henry and the kids for din din at Islands! It worked out perfectly--perfect timing, perfect restaurant, and perfect company! I was soo glad I was able to make it and not have to work LATE for one day out of the week.
I fell asleep for the last 10 minutes of Grey's Anatomy. The rain started up at about 9:30ish and made me really tired! I slept like a rock.
Today/Friday
We had TACO today. Stephanie and I did... TACO stands for Third Avenue Charitable Organization. TACO serves breakfast to the homeless every Monday and Friday mornings. Resounding Joy (Barbara's non-profit) has a contract with them for the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month to provide community-based,recreational music. So..we show up, and guess what? No music because of the weather. bummer.
Back to the office. Did some hospital floors, Parkinson's group, lunch. Stephanie and Bahareh had to plan for McDonald's on Monday, so I started inputting our monthly data into the computer. Then, at 2:30pm I left for D's session, where I would meet Desiree (She goes to Teri, Inc. on Friday so we meet at D's). After that---back to the office for our intern dinner!
The 4 of us (Bahareh, Stephanie, Desiree, and I) went to Fidel's for dinner. It is a Mexican restaurant. So delicious. I got the special. Shrimp tacos! Yum yum. It was nice to get out of the office, get to know each other and let loose. The strawberry margarita was delicioso!
Now, here I am...in the present! I felt so behind not blogging the last couple nights; however, I have been too tired and drained to rethink my days! haha.
I should get signed off of documentation next week. That means I will be able to go on the hospital floors by myself, as opposed to with a Senior Intern. fun stuff.
I'm off to bed. Happy Weekend!
xoxo
Wednesday
I went to Teri, Inc. Led a Hello song and 1 intervention. The day went by so quickly! Thank goodness, because when we did our orientation and observations, the day felt sooo long! When in action it goes by like a snap! It was fun and I am learning a lot from Terri, the Music Therapist there.
After Teri, Inc., we had D (rett's syndrome), then had to head BACK to the office! geeze. Wednesday nights for the next 6 weeks we have Polster group which is a Scripp's funded Music as Medicine class for women with cancer. It was pouring all day Wednesday and we didn't know if anyone would show up! We lugged all our equipment, in the rain mind you, and 1 person showed up! 5 on 1 service..hahah. Barbara goes to Polster sessions. It was pretty cool though. It was an overview of what is to come the next 5 weeks of the class. We went over drumming, breathing techniques, relaxation exercises, toning, and other cool stuff. It wasn't until 8pm when I left the office.
Thursday
Glenbrook hospice. 2 of my patients that I saw last week passed away. It is really sad to think about it, but at least I know that I helped either ease their pain, put a smile on their face, or just sing them a song. M, the client I talked about last week (the one who wasn't breathing for like 30 seconds at a time) passed, as did another woman who we saw with her family.
Supervision with Barbara was on Thursday! We went to Panera, had a nice lunch, and then sat there for another 2 hours discussing our internship: expectations, schedule, projects, case study, student competencies/evaluations, documentation, interns....the list goes on and on. It was overall a good meeting.
Back to the office at around 2:45 to finish up Inventory! We finally finished!!! Left the office at 5:00pm!
After leaving the office, I got a lovely message from Aunt Ronna inviting me to meet her, Henry and the kids for din din at Islands! It worked out perfectly--perfect timing, perfect restaurant, and perfect company! I was soo glad I was able to make it and not have to work LATE for one day out of the week.
I fell asleep for the last 10 minutes of Grey's Anatomy. The rain started up at about 9:30ish and made me really tired! I slept like a rock.
Today/Friday
We had TACO today. Stephanie and I did... TACO stands for Third Avenue Charitable Organization. TACO serves breakfast to the homeless every Monday and Friday mornings. Resounding Joy (Barbara's non-profit) has a contract with them for the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month to provide community-based,recreational music. So..we show up, and guess what? No music because of the weather. bummer.
Back to the office. Did some hospital floors, Parkinson's group, lunch. Stephanie and Bahareh had to plan for McDonald's on Monday, so I started inputting our monthly data into the computer. Then, at 2:30pm I left for D's session, where I would meet Desiree (She goes to Teri, Inc. on Friday so we meet at D's). After that---back to the office for our intern dinner!
The 4 of us (Bahareh, Stephanie, Desiree, and I) went to Fidel's for dinner. It is a Mexican restaurant. So delicious. I got the special. Shrimp tacos! Yum yum. It was nice to get out of the office, get to know each other and let loose. The strawberry margarita was delicioso!
Now, here I am...in the present! I felt so behind not blogging the last couple nights; however, I have been too tired and drained to rethink my days! haha.
I should get signed off of documentation next week. That means I will be able to go on the hospital floors by myself, as opposed to with a Senior Intern. fun stuff.
I'm off to bed. Happy Weekend!
xoxo
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Nap, Anyone?
Okay, so just to prove my mom wrong, well...not wrong, but to show her it's okay...here is a link to an article about sleep. Naps equal a positive thing! However, I haven't taken any naps and probably won't be for a long while.
http://health.ivillage.com/slideshow/health/5_reasons_you_need_more_sleep/napping_does_your_brain_good.html
I'm a bit sleepy, so will just give a brief update.
Today consisted of all hospital rounds. Saw a few patients, learned how to document Declines and N/A's--people who decline MT for some reason (usually because they are tired) and people who either aren't in their room, or currently sleeping.
I did my 5th mandala today...will post a picture soon.
Headed home around 6:30 and made a quick stop at Target for a few things. The trips were asking why I was home so late....and they were showing me that they were in their pj's already and I wasn't! The first thing I always do when I come home is put my pj's on...so they are picking up my habits rather quickly.
Tomorrow, Teri, Inc., our private client D, Inventory, and Polster. Polster is a "music as medicine" group that meets for 6 weeks from 6-7:30 on Wednesdays. It is for women who are cancer survivors and those fighting cancer. Hits close to home, so should be an interesting group.
Night night.
http://health.ivillage.com/slideshow/health/5_reasons_you_need_more_sleep/napping_does_your_brain_good.html
I'm a bit sleepy, so will just give a brief update.
Today consisted of all hospital rounds. Saw a few patients, learned how to document Declines and N/A's--people who decline MT for some reason (usually because they are tired) and people who either aren't in their room, or currently sleeping.
I did my 5th mandala today...will post a picture soon.
Headed home around 6:30 and made a quick stop at Target for a few things. The trips were asking why I was home so late....and they were showing me that they were in their pj's already and I wasn't! The first thing I always do when I come home is put my pj's on...so they are picking up my habits rather quickly.
Tomorrow, Teri, Inc., our private client D, Inventory, and Polster. Polster is a "music as medicine" group that meets for 6 weeks from 6-7:30 on Wednesdays. It is for women who are cancer survivors and those fighting cancer. Hits close to home, so should be an interesting group.
Night night.
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