Waiting for the Weekend

Have you ever noticed that alarm clocks never come with the option of sirens for your daily wake-up call? Perhaps this is for good reason - I do not recommend it to anyone on any occasion. On November 1st, 2003, I was abruptly awakened by the horrifying sound of sirens, a sound that did nothing but put a deep pit in my stomach as I crawled out of bed that Saturday morning. In a panic, my mom quickly grabbed my brother and me and rushed us to our neighbor’s house. We spent the next few hours…

facility where I work, the Case Managers and Social Workers round daily on our unit. They get report from each nurse and if there are any barriers to discharge identified, they will get to work on it. An example that I can think of happened this past weekend. I had an undocumented immigrant with no funding who presented to the Emergency Department with slurred speech, numbness and tingling to his left side of face, arm and leg. After examining patient, getting blood work, and CT scans of the…

leisure. “The root problem, he claims, is that the culture has lost the practice of leisure. On the face of it, then, Pieper appears to be worrying that people are in danger of working themselves into a workaholic frenzy and at risk of losing their weekends, vacation and rerecreation time” (No Time to Think, David Levy, pg. 66). In the culture of today leisure is emphasized lowly due to technology; interruptions are common due to the internet, there is much more of an emphasis on our workload…

Chapter Four: The Encounter “Ma’am… Ma’am, you dropped your wallet!” said Ben. Delilah suddenly flips around and sees Ben’s face. She couldn’t believe her eyes and neither could he. They two both just stood there in shock, but suddenly Delilah ran up to ben and hugged him, all the feelings were flooding back. Their past wounds were reopening. Delilah was glad to see him just as Ben was glad to see Delilah when he first saw her on the night the two parted. “How are you?!” Delilah asked as she…

I got to see my dad on weekends, so I mostly hung out with my uncles during the weekdays and grew up with them. My uncles were basically like my father figure they all looked out for me, but also showed me a lot of tough love.My uncle's showed me the harsh ways of becoming a man…

that, if you leave it all on the ice, you can walk the halls tomorrow at school and feel proud of yourselves. Wear that jersey with pride tonight boys because this is your time.” My coach’s words were ringing through my head as I was on the bench waiting for my first shift. I couldn’t stop moving my legs when I was standing watching the puck drop. It’s as if they had a mind of their own and it was out of my control. My stomach felt like it was going to just quit on me and I was unable to get…

Illnesses are inevitable. Meaning that medicine is a necessary part of life. Without medicine illnesses would eventually terminate humans entirely. Seeing as I am human, I am not too fond of that idea. Which leads me to why I chose to study medicine, specifically the area of physical therapy. I chose physical therapy because I love helping others and my personal experiences with a physical therapist. My love for helping others comes from people helping me when I was younger. We were lower class…

The 4 ideals set forth in the utopian 10th stage of the human mind as described by Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet are guaranteed the livelihood for the aged, a universal system of education, fewer work hours, and the refinement of a technology for the accumulation of knowledge. (Pg. 305) The first ideal of the 10th stage of the human mind is guaranteed the livelihood for the aged. In other words, the elderly would be warranted means of support, and have nothing to be worried about. I believe…

We woke up early and had some coffee before leaving the city at six in the morning. We headed to E-mall where we could catch a V-hire to Sibonga. V-hire is the term Cebuano use to refer a passenger van. The terminal is at the back of a Gas station in front of E-mall. No signs whatsoever, but there were barkers around which will direct you to the location of the van. The first trip left full as early as 6:30AM. We were able to catch the next van which immediately gets filled after 30 minutes. Our…

In this revision of my micro essay, “Gender, Sexuality, and Sports in Check, Please!,” I will focus on the idea of being queer in sports, namely hockey, and how masculinity and sports culture in the webcomic’s world affect these characters (in this case, Jack Zimmermann and Eric Bittle). In order to support this idea, I will be using several of the comics, ranging from year one to the most current update, and analyzing certain aspects of them in depth. This would differ from my original essay,…