The problem I have with immigration laws... and actually with a lot of different laws. Is that they are not equal.
Now, they say that it's only the groups who are marginalized in society that advocate for new laws protesting discrimination. I think this is true.

Do people really want a society that is homogenous? With people that have the same size and type of family? A white middle class family with a son and daughter and a mom who cleans and cooks and a dad who works from 9 to 5? What are the actual statistics on how many families fit that description? It's so infuriating!! Everything in this society is structured in such a way that, if you don't fit into these categories, you get stuck in a financial system that you can never get out of. I almost don't want to list any of these because I know there are so many, and it's so overwhelming to think about.
The one I'm concerned with now, however is the inequity of Federal laws, immigration or otherwise about gay marriage.
Gay Marraige. Who cares? Right? It's just a bunch of deviants wanting to have the same paperwork as "normal people". Who cares if they don't get the same tax breaks as the rest of us?
There's a huge list of Federal Benefits that are granted to people when they are married. Rights to apply for a green card under a spouse?
Are there any people who actually think about these legalities when they say that a marraige is only between a man and a woman?
Do people care that families, deviant or otherwise, get torn apart, or ripped from their countries? ...when benefits that would be granted to a married couple are just plain not allowed...

T and I are planning to move to Canada at the moment. Unless about 5 million planets align just right withing the next couple months, we have to find a place to immigrate to if we want to stay together. She can't stay here. There's hundreds of ways she could maybe stay, except for loopholes that make each one individually impossible.
If anyone can help out in any way... help find a job, help us find somewhere to live, that would be really nice... but it's scary. And it's maddening. And there's so little I can do to change it.

To all who live in the Ithaca area, please use this new website (new to me, at least) to book massage appointments with me!






Online appointment scheduling for Health & Wellness


Come on, you know you want to...

So, I was talking to Tris about hair products, and all of the nasty things I've been hearing about the chemicals they use in almost every commercially available product, so we did a little looking around the hive mind... And found this nice article about some of the things you should look for...


( Hair and Cosmetic Nastiness )

So.... we then went to the coop, Greenstar, and bought about 50 bucks worth of shampoos and toothpaste (that smell nice too) and that won't give me cancer because I want a little lather in my shampoo... though I was amused by some of the brands that touted themselves as being "vegan" or "vegetarian". Am I going to eat it?

On another note... a new generation has begun in my family!! I'm now the proud aunt of a beautiful baby boy! Plus, I get to see him whenever I want, because I live 11 blocks away! Hooray for living close to family!

1 and 1/2 salaries for a 2 person household
+no car
=
paying off student loans and credit cards quickly!

Yay! I got the job, I got the job! Now I don't have to freak out and move back out because I can't afford it. Welcome back to the real world, Cici.

I haven't updated in ages, so I thought I'd update for all of you who aren't on facebook.
Things are good. I'm finishing up my last month of steady employment before I venture in to the unemployment world yet again. Hopefully for less than a month. The reason for this? I'm moving!! We got an apartment in Ithaca, and Tris and I are both looking for jobs up there. god, I hope I find a job... I may have to cancel my health insurance until I find one... stretch the money where I can...
But I'm moving, and I'm so excited! I'm going to be closer to my family, and I'm going to have my own kitchen, and I can cook my own food. I'm so happy about that.
So, for now... I'm working almost every single day, trying to do as much as possible before I head out... and trying not to piss off my employers. heheh...
Oh, the library needs someone to work for a while... so if your interested in up to 20 hours a week or so in this wonderful dying library...the pay isn't too terrible. they need somone starting in August. Maureen... want to come up here a couple days a week?
Anyhow... gotta run and get some work done. peace!

02/25/2007

Name : CLUNE CAROL
Address : OSSINING NY
Profession : MASSAGE THERAPY
License No: 020268
Date of Licensure : 02/23/07
Additional Qualification : Not applicable in this profession
Status : REGISTERED
Registered through last day of : 01/10

I have 4 more days to finish my Parkinsons paper, and about 9 pages to write. I should write a bunch today, but i can't motivate myself... can someone help motivate me? Then all I will have left for the semester is:
2 Eastern papers for my clients in Clinic
Quizes for: Tuina, Thai, and Sotai
1 Presentation for paper on Parkinsons for Clinical Strategies

the rest is basically just showing up every friggin day until Dec 15, and i'm done!! till Jan 29th at least (licensing exam)
Now people need to start coming to me for massage... who wants in?

I'm tired. I went to Alyssa's neices' party last night, and was up until 4. Now I'm at work. I have to start my outline for my paper. I just want to sleep. I'm also very cold. It's either because the library hasn't turned on the heat yet, or my feet just won't get warm. I don't know. Either way, I'm cold. I'm hungry too, maybe I'll order some pork fried rice and some spring rolls from the chinese place. That'll keep me going.
So, for all the cliche whining about being tired, cold, and hungry, I'm not in a terrible mood. I'm looking forward to spending some time with my girl tonight. Hopefully that'll keep me energized for the rest of the week.
RENT on Tuesday! I also get acupuncture Tuesday. Should be a good week.
peace

i'm so highly amused by this library. i love working sundays. tony's cool. he's not an anal librarian. he understands there's no one here, and there's no reason to hover. dude... he's been over there talking to the security supervisor for almost an hour. about vacations. i love it. how different from working with the boss, last week.
anyway...
classes this semester are awesome. i've already finished reflexology and advanced shiatsu, now i'm doing self-care and thai massage. then come tui-na and sotai. i think i can give a massage for an hour, using only my feet. how cool is that??
then i'm signing up for my licensing exam... paying lots of money. man, they must like taking my damn money.
ugh... i need a hot shower. i've been staring at this screen for too long

ATS-301(3) A- Assessment & Treatment of Soft Tissue Conditions
AWT-301(2) A Advanced Western Techniques
PMT-301(3) A- Pathology for the Massage Therapist I
PMT-302(3) A- Pathology for the Massage Therapist II
SHI-302(2) A Shiatsu II & Eastern Evaluation
WSA-302(2) A Applied Topics in Anatomy & Physiology
CLI-301 Pass Clinical Internship II (Shiatsu)
OSI-301 Pass Off-Site Internship II (NYC Triathalon)
PDE-302a Pass "Working with Clients with Histories of Trauma and Abuse"
PDE-302b Pass "Emotional Care and Burnout"
PDE-302c Pass "Maintaining Rapport with Clients"



Full-Time Course Sequence

Semester I

Orientation
Anatomy and Physiology I
Myology and Kinesiology
Palpation
Swedish Massage I
Introduction to Eastern Bodywork and Theory
Professional Development and Ethics I

Semester II

Anatomy and Physiology II
Neurology
Swedish Massage II
Tools of Assessment and Treatment
Shiatsu I
Clinical Internship I
Professional Development and Ethics II
Off-Site Internship I


Semester III

Pathology for the Massage Therapist I
Pathology for the Massage Therapist II
Applied Topics in Anatomy and Physiology
Assessment of Soft Tissue Conditions
Advanced Western Techniques and their
Clinical Applications
Shiatsu II and Eastern Evaluation
Clinical Internship II
Professional Development and Ethics III
Off-Site Internship II


Semester IV

Clinical Strategies: East and West
Clinical Internship III (includes CPR and First Aid)
Professional Development and Ethics IV
Off-Site Internship III
Complementary Techniques and Elective Sequence

Complementary Techniques

Self Care
Introduction to Reflexology
Introduction to Tuina



Elective Sequence

Choice of either Western Electives:

Introduction to Lymphatic Drainage Massage
Introduction to Craniosacral Therapy
Introduction to Polarity Therapy

or Eastern Electives: (I chose Eastern, by the way)

Introduction to Thai Massage
Introduction to Sotai
Advanced Shiatsu

Well, this is sort of the first free moment I've had here at work so far. (I now work every Sunday at the Marymount College Library... not as a student... but as a full fledged, responsible staff. aka. "adult" It's horrible that I find that exciting. oh well.
I have about one more hour to kill before I head back home. So, what shall I do? ..but update.

I've been spending the nights at my aunt's house watching the kids the past couple days... for another week or so. That's until she gets home from China. The kids are so great, it makes me want to have some of my own. (eventually) Cal's been watching them during the day, and I go put them to bed, and jorge gets home late, and gives us all a ride back up in the morning.

Oh my god, I'm craving spinach bread right now. I want my mom to make me some. Too bad she's up in Binghamton and I'm down here.

My Shiatsu class on friday was amazing. First we went around the room asking each other questions to teach us all how to ask questions, for evaluation... it was really awesome. Turns out, I have strong tendancies for Wood/Water imbalances. (Liver jitsu, to be more precise) Which... to make an extremely long story short... (I could explain some of it if people are that interested, otherwise, you can just take my word.) means that I should really make sure that I'm eating more green leafies, green veggies... as well as making sure I take care of my bones and my lower back. I'm not sure why, but this info makes me excited. hehe, I'm a dork. Maybe this is why I'm craving spinach bread... hmmmm

Then after we did the evaluation, I finished up my Shiatsu practical that I had missed a couple weeks ago, due to my excruciating stiff neck, and proceeded to get a 97. Yay!! My teachers like me! woo hoo!

Anyhow,
Time for me to start closing up the biblioteca. It's time for me to eat some of Cal's Sunday Night Barbecue. everyone. be. jealous.
peace out

I haven't posted in a long time, so i don't know a whole lot of what to tell people. things have been going well. classes are winding up in a couple weeks for this summer semester. it's been interesting going to class though summer, i usually work, but now i'm classing it.
tris and i are good, classes are good.... i really just want to start working... i'm sick of waiting until i can "officially" start.
cathy and kids are back from italy... they had fun, and now cathy's about to head off to china. my parents are in california... i really want to travel, but i think i'll have to wait on that one. oh well... someday soon i'll have enough money to travel around.
well, i should get back to my class... so boring
anywho...more later... or not.leave a note if you'd like me to keep updating.
peace

♥ ♥ ♥
Happy lets-celebrate-being-free-to marry-the-person-you-love day

In 270 A.D., marriage had been outlawed by the emperor of Rome, Claudius II. Claudius issued this decree because he thought that married men made bad soldiers since they were reluctant to be torn away from their families in the case of war. Claudius had also outlawed Christianity in this time period because he wished to be praised as the one supreme god, the Emperor of Rome. Valentine was the bishop of Interamna during this period of oppression. Valentine thought that the decrees of Rome were wrong. He believed that people should be free to love God and to marry. Valentine invited the young couples of the area to come to him. When they came, Valentine secretly performed services of matrimony and united the couples.
http://www.lhmint.org/valentines/story.html

Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful day, and gets all their xmas wishes.
love you all
carol

I have my hat and gloves back! yay! i'm a dork.
3 big swim meets this weekend! they're going to be fun! beat sarah lawrence! yay!
Autumn Soiree was awesome... though I should have talked to people a bit more, it was still fun.
I watched the sun rise this morning. it was beautiful.
i'm listening to Dar right now, so i can't concentrate on updating. more soon, I promise.

So, I have my wonderful date, Trisica for Autumn Soiree tonight. When I get out of work, I'll search for my hair straightener and such... Deanna's going to let me wear a dress of hers, which looks good, even though i am a bit worried about it being freezing and maybe snowing. And, Nancy's going to let me borrow some jewelry, so I'm going to look all purdy.
So... our first snowfall of the season was last night, and it was really pretty. I always think the first one is magical, and then it just gets annoying. (as in, I looked at the lawn this morning and thought the blanket was pretty, but then later in the day, I got flashbacks to every other long-ass winter we've had, and I'm already starting to get sick of it.)
pretty though.
I came in 1st in the 50 free and the 50 breast stroke at our meet last night! Mind you, the team we were swimming against, CNR, had only 5 people on it, plus it was their first meet, so I didn't have the biggest competition in the world. It was fun though... I'm going to miss these meets when we're all finished. This has so far, been the best thing that I could have joined this semester.
more later... time to get back to work.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A Canadian man, angry that he was
refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport,
stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well
of a moving jumbo jet, officials said on Wednesday.

Pilots of the Qantas Airways flight stopped the plane. The man was
coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing, said airport
spokeswoman Nancy Castles.

"This was an extremely dangerous thing for him to do. If he had
continued to cling in there with the aircraft taking off at over 200 miles
(320 kph) per hour, he might have fallen out and could have been sucked up
by an engine," she said.

"If he had survived that and was in the wheel well when the landing
gear was retracted, he could have been crushed by the mechanism. And if
not he very likely would have frozen to death during the 15 1/2 hour
flight at 30,000 feet (9,150 metres) while wearing no clothes."

The man, Neil Melly, 31, tried to buy a one-way ticket on the Qantas
flight on Monday evening, but was turned down because he could not supply
a valid credit card, Castles said.

Later, he managed to climb over an airport fence, topped by three
strands of barbed wire, without injury and was spotted by a ramp worker
"running, naked, full-speed" toward the plane.

Castles said a check by authorities found that Melly had been reported
missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was suffering from
bi-polar disorder, a manic-depressive illness.


11/04/04 01:16

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In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise
distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd.

Yay! we kicked some butt in the swim meet last night! I even came in first in one of my backstrokes. This was very exciting to me! (I don't think i've ever placed at a meet.)granted, it's been 9 years since i was on a team, but still.
It was sooo much fun! :-D Michelle (the coach) kept asking where i was the past 3 years. dissapointed that I wasn't on the team before. I told her to enjoy it while it lasts. ;)
time to go face the music