Awake

New Arrivals and Washable Markers

This week Leah and her family arrived in Portland! As much as I love emailing with my friend, I'm looking forward to visiting face-to-face, giving lots of hugs, and seeing how much the kids have grown!

Washable markers are the item of the week. As much as I would have loved to attend Good Friday service, I was instead in my kinesiology class learning about rotator cuff muscles. Where do the markers come in? Well in my class we are now learning how to draw the muscles on our classmates. So at the end of the night I had all the muscles around my shoulder blade outlined in brilliant Crayola bold markers.

This morning in Massage I, we finally got some "table time" after our first quiz. What a way to start the morning, let me tell you. I could barely move after my massage, but giving one was great too--it's so nice having a task that doesn't require me to be leashed to a keyboard. Love it. Last night's Kines class humorously spilled over into this morning's massage as there was some residual markings of the origin and insertions of Latissimus dorsi on my back! I don't know if knowing the location of the 12th thoracic vertebrae really helped my classmate give me a better massage, but for her, seeing all the markings was definitely good for laughs. (Apparently her Kines instructor didn't utilize markers the way mine does. Who knew?)

Anyway. Good times.