{"id":5439,"date":"2009-11-07T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2009-11-07T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:38:25","slug":"decompressing-visiting-my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/07\/decompressing-visiting-my-happy-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Decompressing.  Visiting my happy place."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today ended a long string of events that spanned over our lives since September.\u00c2\u00a0 Conferences, weekend workshops, meetings, travel, presentations, deadlines.\u00c2\u00a0 Today&#8217;s event was a Children&#8217;s Health Fair at the Louisiana Children&#8217;s Museum that was coordinated by the New Orleans Schweitzer Fellows.\u00c2\u00a0 This incredible group of allied health graduate students organized nearly 20 local agencies to attend &#8212; and had everything from dental health games to human body education dolls (think learning about how we&#8217;re all the same *inside*) to therapeutic miniature horses used in treatment with the chronically ill.\u00c2\u00a0 They did this while continuing community service projects (the core focus of their Fellowship responsibilities) and their &#8216;normal&#8217; course\/rotation\/lab schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a good way to end this string of non-stop events because it was inspiring and encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Things aren&#8217;t stopping here.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a weekend meeting retreat to plan, sites to visit, reports to review and comment on, photography exhibit layout work, and nonprofit management type business to attend to. \u00c2\u00a0 Once I get ahead on these things, I&#8217;ll be able to turn back to the dissertation.\u00c2\u00a0 But this all seems more feasible with the &#8216;big&#8217; dates behind us.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m catching my breath.\u00c2\u00a0 And enjoying the memory of how happy the kids were this morning at the Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5447\" title=\"disney 8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-8.jpg\" alt=\"disney 8\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-8.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-8-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5441\" title=\"disney 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-2.jpg\" alt=\"disney 2\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-2.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5440\" title=\"disney 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-1.jpg\" alt=\"disney 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5442\" title=\"disney 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-3.jpg\" alt=\"disney 3\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-3.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5443\" title=\"disney 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-4.jpg\" alt=\"disney 4\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-4.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5448\" title=\"disney\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney.jpg\" alt=\"disney\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disney-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today ended a long string of events that spanned over our lives since September.\u00c2\u00a0 Conferences, weekend workshops, meetings, travel, presentations, deadlines.\u00c2\u00a0 Today&#8217;s event was a Children&#8217;s Health Fair at the Louisiana Children&#8217;s Museum that was coordinated by the New Orleans Schweitzer Fellows.\u00c2\u00a0 This incredible group of allied health graduate students organized nearly 20 local agencies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}