Saturday, December 21, 2013

Dreams

And I quote,
3 major dreams: 
1. being chased through snowy trails and streams in the dark of night by brown and polar bear cubs + moms 
2. a brief rugby scenario where brian earley was also there and did not acknowledge me, no dogs. i was pleasantly surprised 
3. damn i just forgot! dana called while I was chopping food for mom cooking, some weird stuff while laying over in philly while I hooked up the phone to my computer but kept getting pop ups and fighting viruses while she sang a song with psychedelic electronic visuals, also faxed Meesh / the team's fax machine?? ("tell emhsieh she left some of her stuff at our house, the place is messy but not trashed though") and I was all huh??? I've never been to Germany let alone her house hahaha and I def didn't trash the house either lol meesh and I were so confused... also where did she find her/our fax number?? so smart. 
3.5 some big man coach was teaching some high school boys about lineouts and making zero sense, spewing wrong information and tactics everywhere. sue parker and I were both like wtf 
4. battle around school area / tower where got shot but still teleported enemy to hospital afterward with dream apparition powers 
5. running through the deserted empty streets of providence to try and get back to my car but the streets are pitch black and no lamp posts. super scary so I turned around to head back under the bridge to thayer street district where things are lively and poppin' and brightly lit. 
6. stan was back in town! and told someone to read her blog 
that was more than 3.
Some background: To hold all of the [non-zero (but likely less than 1) number of] fans over until my next update... here's exactly what I wrote down in my overflowing dream log on Monday when I awoke with sickness and promptly went back to sleep. In my very brief and blurry moments of consciousness I managed to get all of this down in a somewhat clear and organized manner. I was pleasantly surprised when I emerged from deep slumber 5 hours later to find this window into my subconscious brain. Enjoy!

ps. I have a lot of things in the blog pipeline, I promise! ...just a little too lazy (read: disorganized) to get myself together and post. They're coming soon! Happy holidays :)

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

the dream

especially awesome is the Jacques Rogge highlight/farewell vid and the bits about envelope opening and happiness around rugby being added ^^

http://www.olympic.org/2020-host-city-election

via Eli Wolff

Monday, September 9, 2013

Monthly health plug! Snute Fighting!

"For the economy to be healthy, America has to remain unhealthy."
An interesting read about how lifestyle can be pre-determined Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Sweet article from nyt about Li Na! I'm a fan. Break the mold!

Don't take Ibu! or what we used to call candy / Vitimin I on our rugby team haha. I've heard it from the Romero's (Paul, Jordan), and here it is again! Adverse health effects include Anemia, hearing loss, hypertension, miscarriage, and more. Alternatives:

  • Ginger capsules
  • Chinese skullcap / baicalin
  • omega-3 fatty acids
  • panax ginseng
  • holy basil
and more! they can be equivalent or better at reducing pain and inflammation.

Finally, Snute writes about Losing in Challenger as a full-time player forum link
my thoughts:

I can't help but thinking of that scene in She's the Man when Viola says to Duke, "I can relate!" in a super bro-y tone.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Tech in Healthcare

On August 22 I wrote this note to myself about tech in healthcare, following a presentation at work about using social media to increase or company's visibility. I didn't spend too much brain power on it beyond my initial thoughts but still think it's worth a share and a minute or two!

Digital Doc Infographic
Interesting... there's all this HYPE around tech in healthcare, but is it really the right direction? Didn't all this addiction and dependence on tech help bring about the obesity epidemic in America? Those countries out there that are much healthier than the US - do they rely on technology as much as we do? Or are we saying that their models won't work in our country because we can't change, not after how far we've gone down the rabbit hole. The only way to "save" us is to use what we're dependent on to make us better?
But like always, this is supremely bias toward the population with smart phones and good access to good, rich, technologically driven healthcare. Which always leaves behind the populations which need the most help - the lower earning individuals, rural folks, etc.
Blog this somewhere, Em!