Hurray again!

I got into the health psychology specialization track! Woot!

This means that I'll focus my dissertation and clinical work (and hopefully internship) on work in a medical setting and psychology as it relates to health conditions (and how your physical health conditions affect your mental health). I'll also get to focus on stress disorders, psychoimmunology, somatoform disorders, and particular health conditions. As I've said before, I'm hoping to work specifically with behavior change as it relates to and impacts health (obesity, addiction, etc.) I'm getting more and more into pediatric obesity. Fascinating literature.

So I found out that I won't be doing my initial practicum working with homeless LGBT youth. Instead, I'll be primarily working with vets at a local health clinic that's attached to my school. I'm just as happy about this - I love working with vets. I volunteered at the VA a few years ago, and though it was primarily research, I got some good exposure to the population.

I'm out in Sun River this weekend with "the girls." Totally couldn't afford it, don't have time for it, but eBoy made me go because he thinks I need to make friends and get out of the house more. So what am I doing? Sitting upstairs studying while they all chillax in the hot tub. Oh well. At least I'm out of the house. And central oregon is beautiful, so life could be a lot worse.