Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Monday, March 29, 2004
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Thursday, March 25, 2004
I am also borrowing books on computers this week.
My final assignment is due on Monday then April is almost a month off school. I have no classes in April.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Monday, March 22, 2004
I found a supervisor for a fourth year geography course this summer. I will be working on a project or study into homelessness using SPSS. I also applied to attend a statistics workshop for two weeks at York University in June.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
"Recovery refers to the lived or real life experience of persons as they accept and overcome the challenges of the disability" (Deegan, 1988, p. 15) and "Recovery is a process by which people with psychiatric disabilites rebuild and further develop important personal, social, environmental, and spiritual connections, and confront the devastating effects of discrimination through...empowerment" ( Anthony, quoted in Spaniol and Koehler, 1994, p. 1) Emphasis added.
Davidson basically reviews the literature briefly on schizophrenia in his first chapter. He dismisses the Kraepelinian model as lacking hope and not allowing recovery and this "not allowing" affecting methodology in observing recovery. He has been noting a number of times in his introduction and his first chapter that the outcome in schizophrenia is heterogenous that is there is not a stereotypical course to the illness. Recovery can and does happen quite often in fact his recovery figure ranges from 27% t0 67% and is higher in less developed countries. Via la madness.
I am relaxing reading this book after completing the reading of a casebook for a law course. This means the required reading for this course is done. The course ends in two weeks with the final exam still a month away.
I was also working on a presentation for my other law course due on Monday. I have been working around perfection on this course and frustrating details of printing handouts for my brother and sister classmates. My brother gave me an old photo printer. I will now sleep on this home work and review it tomorrow. I will also have to go to school tomorrow to test the school computers at displaying my presentation slides. I did not use power point but instead Open Office to do this school work.
Saturday, March 20, 2004
I am reading some applied mathematics.
I am also reading Larry Davidson's Living Outside Mental Illness (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
I took back Cybersexualities.
I took back the George Cho book on GIS and the Law.
I took by Castel's the Rise of the Network Society.
I gave two tests the fourth and final tests of the term in my TA work. I now need to mark these tests.
I am now the union's recording secretary.
There is a big no occupation of Iraq protest today world wide. I will be a medic for this.
A friend is moving today.
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Saturday, March 13, 2004
I am just printing out one of the assigned articles to read now.
We got the contract for my wife's book signed. Now we need to pay and it is off to the printers.
Friday, March 12, 2004
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Sunday, March 07, 2004
I hope to get to learning C++ from a couple of books. My brother-in-law says he is into PERL these days.