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	<title>Carleen and Mike &#187; 2006 &#187; October &#187; 14</title>
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		<title>But Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 04:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re at week 2 of Massage Therapy as Career of the Week, so it seems to be sticking. I gave Carleen a 1+ hour full body massage last night. I used some techniques from a book I&#8217;ve been reading and discovered that massage cannot possibly be learned from a book. A lot of the techniques [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re at week 2 of Massage Therapy as Career of the Week, so it seems to be sticking. I gave Carleen a 1+ hour full body massage last night. I used some techniques from a book I&#8217;ve been reading and discovered that massage cannot possibly be learned from a book. A lot of the techniques felt awkward, plus I had to use the kitchen table as a make-shift massage table which helped my back none too much. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been getting all kinds of catalogs from various schools in the Northeast and they all seem to have very good programs, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see where Carleen can find a job. I&#8217;ve been thinking about the initial interview for admission into these schools and have been trying to answer the inevitable question: <i>So why are you interested in massage therapy?</i> You mean reasons beyond making $60+ for an hour&#8217;s worth of work? I still have no answers but some other issues did come up. First off, I tend to be less than comfortable touching other people - I&#8217;m not a touchy-feely kind of person. However, I&#8217;m certain with practice, I can break down that barrier. I want to break down that barrier, in fact. The other issue is that I also tend to respect people&#8217;s privacy, such that, I don&#8217;t ask people about their health - which is something that would need to be done in this profession. It seemes like most of the schools have that as part of their curriculum - teaching students how to aask questions and what questions to ask. So again, I feel like I can leap that hurdle. And sciences always came easy to me in school so Biology, Pathology, &#038; Anatomy should be a breeze, I&#8217;m not terribly concerned about those.</p>
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