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melluransa
melluransaI had a very interesting drive home today.
I'm so lucky to be home right now! A wave of winter weather hit the Midwestern U.S. It caused two of my three clients to cancel. It was nice because I had time to catch up on homework and stuff. That was unexpected and nice. The snow started at 2:00, falling heavily and steadily.
Class let out an hour early at 6:00! My teacher taught stuff I use in therapy every day so it was a great class, and she's nice to let us out. She always says the funniest sentences. Tonight she was talking about inventing novel utterances and how Skinner and Pavlov's reinforcement, punishment, and reward doesn't fully explain language acquisition and use. She could come up with a random utterance like, "The sparkly unicorns ate play-doh." Such an utterance was never produced before by her before, much less rewarded or punished or whatever -- and Skinner says that all behavior has a stimulus, behavior, and consequence or else it doesn't exist. Not discrediting Skinner, but he doesn't explain language acquisition completely. ANYWAY.
The walk back to the parking lot is downhill, which was difficult to walk down. I was wearing my slipper-sneakers that are flat-soled and open on the top.
Then, I couldn't find my car. I remembered too late that I'd parked in another lot. This happens to me at least three times a semester (See how I play if off like I'm a victim of unfortunate circumstance and that it's not my fault)
So off I go, padding along to the other lot. There was snow piling on my shoulders and in my purse and in my hood. I got quite wet, which was sad because my ipod Tom got wet and wouldn't turn on. (Right now he be chillin in a ziploc with some rice and prayers)
I finally got to my car with wet pant, socks, and shoes. I wiped my car off three times because by the time I made my way around the car, snow piled up on what I'd already wiped off. -_- But the heater finally warmed up the glass in the windows enough that snowflakes melted upon landing~
THEN the drive home, holy shit. I said "fuck" more times than I say "fuck" in an entire year. I passed two wrecks and five people in the ditch/off the road. The highway's speed limit is 65 mph... it was only safe at 35-45 mph tonight. Visibility was poor too, with such heavy snowfall. I considered taking an early exit to go sleep in a hotel, but I really wanted to get home. Semi trucks hurtled past on the highway and terrified me, passing me in my tiny Ford Focus.
Then lols, I get around home. I live in the country with cornfields and soybean fields. The roads were just snow, virgin snow undriven upon. I finally felt ok enough to turn on the radio, that my concentration could handle it and I was close enough to home anyway. Hubris is the downfall of all man. Anyway, it was Usher ("More," the remix) was blasting out of the radio as I turned onto the road that's one road away from the road my house is on. (the last time I crashed my car, "Geisterfahrer" was playing btw)
I took the curve too fast at a three way intersection. My rationale was that I didn't want to go too slow because I'd get stuck (like I did at an earlier intersection). I went too fast though! Wheee I went into the ditch, ramping up and over the other side and into a plowed cornfield. The car kept moving and so I drove and it worked. I was in a snowy and plowed cornfield. I made a wide circle back to the road and spotted a place where the ditch wasn't as deep, and through there I got back on the road.
I can't believe I made it almost all the way home to go in a ditch/cornfield down the street from my house, and managed to get out. I could have walked home if I had gotten stuck.
Then I got home and got hyper and wheeeeee. I hope classes are canceled tomorrow. I never want to drive again. :D
I'm so lucky to be home right now! A wave of winter weather hit the Midwestern U.S. It caused two of my three clients to cancel. It was nice because I had time to catch up on homework and stuff. That was unexpected and nice. The snow started at 2:00, falling heavily and steadily.
Class let out an hour early at 6:00! My teacher taught stuff I use in therapy every day so it was a great class, and she's nice to let us out. She always says the funniest sentences. Tonight she was talking about inventing novel utterances and how Skinner and Pavlov's reinforcement, punishment, and reward doesn't fully explain language acquisition and use. She could come up with a random utterance like, "The sparkly unicorns ate play-doh." Such an utterance was never produced before by her before, much less rewarded or punished or whatever -- and Skinner says that all behavior has a stimulus, behavior, and consequence or else it doesn't exist. Not discrediting Skinner, but he doesn't explain language acquisition completely. ANYWAY.
The walk back to the parking lot is downhill, which was difficult to walk down. I was wearing my slipper-sneakers that are flat-soled and open on the top.
Then, I couldn't find my car. I remembered too late that I'd parked in another lot. This happens to me at least three times a semester (See how I play if off like I'm a victim of unfortunate circumstance and that it's not my fault)
So off I go, padding along to the other lot. There was snow piling on my shoulders and in my purse and in my hood. I got quite wet, which was sad because my ipod Tom got wet and wouldn't turn on. (Right now he be chillin in a ziploc with some rice and prayers)
I finally got to my car with wet pant, socks, and shoes. I wiped my car off three times because by the time I made my way around the car, snow piled up on what I'd already wiped off. -_- But the heater finally warmed up the glass in the windows enough that snowflakes melted upon landing~
THEN the drive home, holy shit. I said "fuck" more times than I say "fuck" in an entire year. I passed two wrecks and five people in the ditch/off the road. The highway's speed limit is 65 mph... it was only safe at 35-45 mph tonight. Visibility was poor too, with such heavy snowfall. I considered taking an early exit to go sleep in a hotel, but I really wanted to get home. Semi trucks hurtled past on the highway and terrified me, passing me in my tiny Ford Focus.
Then lols, I get around home. I live in the country with cornfields and soybean fields. The roads were just snow, virgin snow undriven upon. I finally felt ok enough to turn on the radio, that my concentration could handle it and I was close enough to home anyway. Hubris is the downfall of all man. Anyway, it was Usher ("More," the remix) was blasting out of the radio as I turned onto the road that's one road away from the road my house is on. (the last time I crashed my car, "Geisterfahrer" was playing btw)
I took the curve too fast at a three way intersection. My rationale was that I didn't want to go too slow because I'd get stuck (like I did at an earlier intersection). I went too fast though! Wheee I went into the ditch, ramping up and over the other side and into a plowed cornfield. The car kept moving and so I drove and it worked. I was in a snowy and plowed cornfield. I made a wide circle back to the road and spotted a place where the ditch wasn't as deep, and through there I got back on the road.
I can't believe I made it almost all the way home to go in a ditch/cornfield down the street from my house, and managed to get out. I could have walked home if I had gotten stuck.
Then I got home and got hyper and wheeeeee. I hope classes are canceled tomorrow. I never want to drive again. :D
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I am lucky! \o/ of all the places to go off the road, I went off close to home and where there was nothing to hit. <3
AND YOU! You care for yourself! I saw your post and all I read was "after eating" and "sick again" and respiratory symptoms. Rule out aspiration pneumonia, ok? Brush your teeth and swallow safely and rule out aspiration pneumonia for me. I have my class on swallowing and respiration tomorrow (if school isn't cancelled) so I will be thinking of you when we learn about swallowing and breathing. I WILL NOW BE HYPER-ANALYZING ALL YOUR REPORTED SYMPTOMS. If that's alright with you. Ok? Take care of yourself, sweetie! <3
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...yeah, going in tomorrow. I promise! :)?
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I'm so glad I'm home too! I almost didn't tell my mom but she could tell something happened from my rapid speech and hyperactivity. I hope classes are canceled! Man, I probably won't be able to get out of the driveway anyway! :( *cuddles*
New twitter is stuck for me, sticky stuck. I probably need to browse it in something other than Safari. Maybe I'll cave and download Chrome or Firefox or something. I LOVE YOU!!!!
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It's amazing that your car is all right and you were able to drive right back out. Especially in a Ford Focus! Go you! Driving in the snow, slush and ice is terrifying, and nothing is worse than tractor-trailers blowing past you like it's nothing.
I'm so thankful your car didn't get stuck in the field! It sounds like you would have had a cold walk home!
Hope you can curl up with the doggies and some tea and let your adrenaline ebb away. Stay warm and safe, darling! <3<3<3 *SQUEEZE*
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I would have been very cold and wet. It was the power of physics and momentum that kept the car moving, I guess. That made it so I didn't get stuck.
EBB. EBB DAMMIT. I NEED SLEEP TONIGHT. DAMN YOU, SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM.
DUDE. There's this thing called parasympathetic nervous system disorder where you get brain injury to your brainstem and your body forgets how to do all the automatic things to take care of itself! We're talking heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, temperature, circulation, cerebrospinal fluid circulation, metabolism, digestion, blinking, OMG. O M G. Never get head injury, ok? TAKE THIS HELMET, WEAR IT FOREVER. And if you don't mind, could you step inside this giant bubble wrap suit? I used the sizes from your velcro suit to make this bubble wrap suit.
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I will gladly accept a bubble wrap suit and helmet! I've always said I'd be more comfortable living in a bubble! This would be perfect! Thank you for your consideration! (Plus bubble wrap is all kinds of fun to pop. Poppoppop)
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:D
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I'm glad you're okay!!
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"The sparkly unicorns ate play-doh."
I loved to read that section, about reinforcement and the language.
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We did! That language is to influence behavior and behavior in others. It's called something else when we looked at it... It was called cognitive learning. It emphasizes the importance of knowing you can speak a language, why it's important, and what you can do to manipulate your own language. From look at wikipedia (thanks for linking!) it shares some ideas. Like being aware of your intentions and language, and to use that within a context to achieve some end.
:D You are neat! I don't talk about this to anybody except my school people! :D :D
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With the help of language, we could draw the conclusion "I have a fireplace in my cave, and prey on the other side of the forest where it's too cold to stay longer stretches of time... If I can carry fire with me to the part of the forest where the prey roams, then I can stay there longer and catch more prey = get more food." Flip!
But it's also possible to use this mechanism and become fearful or depressed since language can create scenarios that haven't yet happened, and perhaps aren't even likely to happen; "Each time I try to make new friends they let me down..." (travel back in time to get information, often distorted) "...thus, it's no use ever trying to make new friends, they too will let me down." (travel to the future and apply old, perhaps distorted information on events that haven't even happened, resulting in reclusiveness and sadness). Flop!
That's really some basics of RFT but I love it, it's so powerful.
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Animals live only in the present time, but humans are aware of the past and future, and language helps us conceptualize that. We have past and future tense verbs, for example. Language is what makes us essentially human. We even use it to give voice to our inner thought processes. I think in English. I asked my dad and he says he thinks in Spanish. I am so intrigued by the idea of thinking in a language.
And yeah, self talk. Just the way you phrase something affects how it will go. If you talk to a crowd of listeners about putting stray shelter animals to sleep, for example. You can say "put to sleep" or "killing" or "murder." It depends on how you feel and how you want the listener to feel... SO NEAT, OMG. Or like how you talk to your spouse. "I hate when you ____" versus "I feel ___ when bla bla bla." Both phrases communicate the same idea but take different approaches. It's so complicated!
You're pointing out a lot of cognitive things and internal intentions and processes~ I feel like you'd be good friends with Piaget.
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I've done that to driving on a road with fields on each side of the road, heavy snow and windy to... So you could hardly see the road at all. And if you didn't have some speed, you'd get stuck. :-P I made it though, thanx to good winter-tires! I was young then, nowadays I love driving in winter-weather. :-)
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