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Wednesday, October 10th, 2001
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2:25p - Lift Your Glasses High:
I'd just like to announce that after several months of delay while first corresponding with alternately out-of-the-country and out-of-state teachers and then saving up the outlandishly large amount of money required for the "processing" fee, I have just now returned from the post office, where I mailed my official transcripts from GMI, a copy of my diploma, a note explaining that Vermont does not bother with statewide licensure of massage therapists or of the schools which instruct and certify them, a second note with a stamp on it saying 'Yes, please acknowledge that you have received this,' a money order for quite a lot of money, and my formal application to sit for the National Certification Examination - as given by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork - to said company (and be there no bones about it, they are a company, and not an 'organisation'), all in a large flat and by certified mail. Now I have only to wait for six to twelve weeks until they at long last deign to review my application, and at that time send me a form letter stating, "Aye, we will allow you to take this examination," and then, to spend several hours acing an exam less thorough and less valid than the exam for my initial certification via GMI, which I already took and aced some three years ago. Then, I have only to wait an additional three to four months, or more, until the NCBTMB graciously deems it time to take notice of my numerical score - which, by the way, is tabulated in real time, so that I myself will know my score by the time I leave the testing center, and which the NCB will themselves most certainly have access to at that same time - and send me further acknowledgment, to the tune of "You have passed, we see, and thus you are < fanfare > nationally certified < /fanfare >, and may now legally continue to do what you have already been doing for lo these many years, and indeed which was already legal for you to do in other parts of the country, but not in the state of your current residence." And oh, I crave such validation. Yea verily I do.
Postscript: Livejournal spellchecks "NCBTMB" as "KNOCKABOUTS". Har, har! C'est très approprié.
current music: Grant Lee Buffalo: Mighty Joe Moon (share your thoughts)
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3:04p - Further Reading:
In between bouts of bending machines to my indomitable will, I did a bit of reading at lunch. The three articles below are well worth a read; you can make your own opinions with the simple tools you have at home.
This one is well done. There’s a lot of good information here, amidst heavy sarcasm. Definitely read this if you don’t like where you’re working right now; you’ll more than likely feel a bit better.
Hey Kids! Can You Say Antipersonnel Microwave Weapon?
Daunting, but informative. An important tie-in to women’s rights, and human rights in general.
Suffrage in the Middle East.
This one is my favourite of the lot, I think. Riane Eisler really knows what she’s talking about. Also, this is the absolute opposite of the unfortunate majority of information coming through the media re. the ‘war on terrorism’ the US government has engaged itself in. Rather than portraying a black-and-white, us-and-them view of any group or any polarised side of the issues, this is true grassroots, and at the same time addresses it all from a much larger and more universally relevant standpoint. It’s “…multilevel solutions for a multilevel phenomenon”. Afraid that War is Necessary -- A Talk with Riane Eisler.
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4:10p - In Case You're Feeling Ambitious -
Here are three more.
Yes, it's relevant. The Charge of the Trade Brigade.
Funny, I don't remember ever seeing much of this on the television broadcasts, or in the print media. And of course, radio is never really worth much any more. Iraqis Know What New Yorkers are Suffering.
This one addresses a governmental schism of the generations, and its current repercussions. Marginalization and Terrorism.
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