Week 9

My E-Prime Day

Today I woke up to noise at an hour of which is normally and legally considered to be 8:00am PST. I brewed some seemingly stale coffee and drank part of it before pouring it down the kitchen sink drain. I then dressed myself and walked to AIMC Berkeley, the building at which I am currently enrolled in various classes to eventually obtain a degree from. My clinic shift started at 9:30am, but as I noticed more than a few student names on the clinic sign up sheet, it appeared I had no patients to treat. I then mosied into the herb room to find a few people I would assume to call my friends seemingly talking to each other, so I sat down and listened in before interacting with them. Then I wrote down a raw herb prescription for myself and my seemingly congested chest. A classmate of mine then asked if I could insert a few needles in him for an acupuncture event, so I did just that in a small clinic room of the downstairs portion of AIMC. I observed the school day keeping on keeping on as it usually does, with what I thought of as two long classes and a break for eating lunch food in between. Bruce Robinson appeared to turn what registers to me as 74 years old today, so our class attended an event held in a room upstairs. Bruce seemed surprised to see us yelling "surprise." After school was over, I received a ride to the library from a person whom I would consider a friend. Then I walked to the BART station with a different supposed friend. Then I walked to Tully's to buy what I assumed to be good-tasting coffee beans. Then I walked to the apartment that I am currently residing in. It seemed my boyfriend had cooked us both a dinner consisting of fish, rice and broccoli. After eating, I recall observing us both eating about 8 plums each! Then I clicked on various website addresses before ordering a few different things that I would assume to make useful birthday gifts for people whom I care about. Now I am doing what appears to be typing on a web page that soon will be viewable by many.


Can I synthesize East and West?

Maybe! I mean, hopefully. I see this as a perfect goal of mine as an acupuncturist, and the ultimate goal of Chinese medicine as a whole. I think people have been saying that Eastern and Western thinking have been merging for a while now. It's exciting when you first hear it, but then you realize that it's been happening all along, just at a very slow pace. But really, I feel we are all synthesising East and west, by doing Eastern medicine in the West.