I am a practicing clinician, a recent doctoral graduate who finally graduated school but will never leave school, a huge technology lover, a man constantly fighting off the fat, and a father.
Grabbed Dominos Pizza for dinner the other night and was really impressed with the quality- its improved a lot since I had it three years ago. Really liked the new recipes.
The prices are still more than I would like but we actually got a discount because some customer cancelled an order and the lady knocked a price off for us. Go cheap student us.
Watching people head home from campus
This road is a nightmare at five pm heading south.
Snowy days in the city. We are getting rocked with winter right now
Heading out from Chinatown into the blistery snow
Had dinner with MP at Taipan and enjoyed the snow. Realized how easy it is to lose touch with friends when they are on a totally different path than you and you don’t connect with them enough. Gotta keep my a-game for this stuff. I’ve made a real effort to cut down and focus on my close friends and maintaining healthy and supportive relationships with them all.
I’m really enjoying the beautiful snowy landscapes we get in the city this season.
Dropping W off at a friends to head down to Calgary right when the snow hits. Thought the bike locks at the grad student res were really cool and space saving.
Pickign up bakery in chinatown with some of the classic cream cakes I used to love when I was a kid. They aren’t that good actually haha.
They taste like a pat of butter on sponge cake.
Shopping in WEM during the holiday season opening rush. Parking is nuts and its crowded everywhere.
Got to try the QX10 camera attachment at the Sony store. Not really impressed with the fucntionality as the camera streams low res live views back to the phone its attached to and the image quality is pretty meh. Considering that Sony managed to fit the same sized sensor in the Z1 Xperia, they should have been able to do more with this camera attachment.
MICROSOFT STORE!
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. There were a ton of Lumia 1020s to play with and lots of Lenovo computers that I had only seen online (like the really freaking heavy Helix)
Loved the hands on stuff I got to see in the store.
Got to handle the Rogers exclusive Xperia Z1. Really liked the overall feel of this phone but still can’t justify pushing for an upgrade when my Note II is still working perfectly for my needs.
Snowy day on Saturday class
Rainy day at work overlooking the clinic
Its funny this was just two weeks ago and now this is all Hoth winter storm
Upper back workout- I feel so FREAKING strong with my workouts right now- the other day I was doing shoulders and my lower back and both of them were just so so stable when I pushed and pulled. Having a fully balanced workout has just made me so confident in my lifting. C at work taught me to wrap my fingers on top of my thumb to get a stronger grip – I felt like my main muscle (like in a side lift) was fine but my grip couldn’t keep up. So far it just feels like I am crushing my thumb but thats ok. Really happy with my workouts these past few weeks.
Waiting at the Honda dealership to winterize my car. Brought my laptop and an army of batteris and just churned out work for my qualitative course
Really happy they bsuted out a lounge here to do work.
Accord coupe
Really liked the Accord interior- tons of room for a coupe in the rear
The Civic Si in matte black just blew me away. So slick looking.
I would love to own one of these one day. Its just not a very practical car for me at this time.
And in other news I have been working on my proposal for my doctoral thesis and I am super super excited to think that I may have nailed my topic. My previous work had focused on whether school psychologists had the proper training to deal with school violence and now I think for my doctoral research I can actually focus on what they should be doing in the schools. This will give me a real practical aspect of my research so that I can understand what are the best interventions to prevent and cope with school violence. I’ve got a weekend to churn out these ideas but I am feeling really excited because I can tie in my master’s research with my interest in managing violence as well as helping victims deal with the anxiety and depression (both latter items are big practice interests of mine). I’m hoping to get the most out of this research for real world use so this is getting me hyped for sure. Another aspect that I am happy to look at is bullying and as I hung out with my buddy who’s an elementary school teacher, I realized that I really had minimal understanding of what to do for bullying. Add that onto the new focus of incorporating bullying under the school violence definition by NASP and I’t got lots of potential to professionally develop and help others on top of completing my research requirements. Cha-ching!
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