-riding the blue line home and around the corner was a mom yelling the most expletives per sentence ratio i've ever heard in my life. her two little kids sat quietly eating their cookies. i hope these kids don't start speaking like that. (i think her speech must be habitually like that). but, hope is all i can contribute at this point.

-to the side was another kid, maybe 13 or 14 eating his mcd's sundae. his phone rings and he picks up and says, "yooo". so smooth! this is a different generation.

-i've been thinking a lot about intonation. and how things get lost in translation via intonation. i'm going to post about this every day for a while coz it's on my mind and therefore, i'm noticing it way too much. anyway, today was walking home and this woman was on the phone saying, "but i think about you all the time." and that line usually is sweet and loving. but she said it in a tone where my initial reaction is "why are you disrespecting me like that?"

-best kids ever this afternoon! i love working on kids who don't cry and scream. one of them was practically sleeping. and he wasn't even on any medication! ...the little things that make me happy.

-speaking of happy, i got a haircut and the stylist's name is happy. i decided to check out this salon in chinatown, to support my neighbourhood and the yelp reviews were decent. he kinda turned me into a fob. not really. but it's the fobbiest haircut i've ever had. anyway, i totally know how my patients feel because i waited a hella long time... which is fine since i just came in as a walk-in. but happy was working on this girl's extensions and it was a really long process. i appreciate he is really meticulous. i also know how he feels coz i know what it's like to run behind and to go over closing time. i understand my patients who face language barriers. seriously, like, no one spoke english at this salon. and my chinese is really bad. i thought i had read on yelp that it was a taiwanese salon. happy is from china. and i didn't want to go down any heated convos esp while he had scissors and my hair in his hands.
anyway, i realized that he was trying to understand what i was saying in english, but maybe understood only 10% of it. which makes me wonder what my patients understand when i speak spanglish. they probably all think that it's okay to eat candy all day. or that they should sip on mountain dew throughout the night while they are sleeping. and that it's not important to floss.

-read an editorial about access to care in rural areas; whereas the problem in the inner cities is 'barriers' to care. which is exactly what i've been thinking earlier this week when thinking about the patients here.
barriers include - fear, lack of education, non-value and miscommunication.