The term human agency, or agency, recognizes the important fact that juveniles not only are acted upon by social influence and structural constraints, but also make choices and decisions based on the alternatives that they see before them. A longitudinal study on adolescent health (eating disorders, depression, substance abuse) in middle and secondary school boys and girls... A study evaluating prevention programs for adolescent females with body image concerns... school-based study of male adolescent mental health: depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders...

Perhaps it is public language that is responsible for a complex of rather distinctive features of human thought. Reflexive thinking will paradigmatically involve a direct and conscious cognitive access to target thoughts. Public language sentences are the only possible vehicles for thoughts that are to be the objects of reflexive thinking.

Should I help out wid’is’tudy?
Matthias Mehl:
“We are interested in how natural language in everyday conversation -”

“Exactly, but I like this... You couldn’t say that I’m shy... [laughing].”

“I went to a newsgroup last year... She’s a psychic... Judy, in my group, she’s so unhappy... But... You just take these trips...”

“Hmmm...”

“New York... The divorce hadn’t gone through, yet... And then they broke up... One day...”

“So, it could be the last day... I wrote everything... I... I... I... Friends.”
I believe I might be rather good at this task. ha ha ha.
“- conveys psychological information about a person. Using new behaviour/language sampling technology -”
Lord knows we can use more of that. ha ha ha.
“ - for FIELD research, we are going to reconstruct a person’s linguistic fingerprint from his or her daily interactions and relate it to a variety of self-reported personality characteristics, situational variables and physiological markers (e.g. blood pressure, cortisol, testosterone).”
Lying. They’re talking about liars. ha ha ha. Now if only I had the choice regarding whether or not I wanted to work on dis’tudy. ha ahha ha.

I’ve been a little despondent with everyone else except for um, yeah, everyone. FU man. What, what universe did i attend? it’s called FU, what’s yours? That’s why you ain’t got a date. I should be talking to her navel, saying you need not worry bout fallowing out there. to be completed at a later date.
on a friday night everything all right, checking your jacknife if i had never gotten the train the code the trauma in the head. lateral head trauma coma. I dunno if I should hold off that long, though, I gotta hear a song, don’t you know? that you are a shooting star. c’mon play, you SOB, you jus gotta learn to play with the right people, y’know. start from the top and make your way down. jus like Alice in Wonderland.... That really worries me. in a car her grandfather again. fractals connected. fibraccio. libarace. Maro is part of the extremely closed circuit.
Maro is a telekinetic photomachine. The ultimate gadget. Can take still photos, can shoot moving images. Maro can send notes to other similar gadgets across time and space. She used to eat lettuce, but not so much anymore. I dunno... You can’t trust her, ever, not even for one cool minute. You gotta remember that. You gotta keep that fear in your heart. The terrible thing is that she wants you to have that fear there. It should be about respect. That’s what you’d think it would be about, but it’s not. It’s all about fear and the kind of control that she has over you. She needs to have that control, no matter what situation she’s in. KRETSCHMAR. She’s probably listening to this right now.
She has her minions. And you have to watch out for them at all times.
I once looked up to her. I almost admired her. Almost. I thought she had something like compassion. But I was dead wrong. It’s not compassion afterall. It’s jus’elf preservation, a sickening, destructive kind of self-preservation. She’s only nice to you as an after-thought, or perhaps she actually needs something from you, though she would never want you to know it. She will demand things from you. That’s all. She will never admit to actually needing you.

If I can get through that on a regular basis, then I think that I can get through just about anything. I would much rather be physically beaten than have the piss kicked outta my soul.

Here’s de new form for admittance dey asked me for.
PATIENT:

PHOTO:

TREATMENT RECORD:




ANOMALIES:


RADIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS:


ADDITIONAL FINDINGS


DETAIL:


PERCUSSION SENSITIVE:


ABNORMAL WEAR:


DETAIL:


SUMMARY OF DIAGNOSIS:


TREATMENT PLAN IN SEQUENCE:



PROGNOSIS:









Canadian Mental Health Association
Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc.
Standard Mental Health Claim Form
PART 1 Doctor Unique No. SPEC.
Patient’s Office Account No.
I HEREBY ASSIGN MY BENEFITS PAYABLE FROM THIS CLAIM TO THE NAMED DOCTORS AND AUTHORIZE PAYMENT DIRECTLY TO HIM/HER. Please Remit Payment to (Signature on File)

______________________________________________________________
SIGNATURE OF SUBSCRIBER


FOR DOCTORS USE ONLY - FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, DIAGNOSIS, PRECEDURES, OR SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS







I UNDERSTAND THAT THE FEES LISTED IN THIS CLAIM MAY NOT BE COVERED BY OR MAY EXCEED MY PLAN BENEFITS. I UNDERSTAND THAT I AM FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TO MY DOCTOR FOR THE ENTIRE TREATMENT. I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE TOTAL FEE IS ACCURATE AND HAS BEEN CHARGED TO ME FOR SERVICES RENDERED. I AUTHORIZE RELEASE OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS CLAIM FORM TO MY INSURING COMPANY/PLAN ADMINISTRATOR. I ALSO AUTHORIZE THE COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION RELATED TO THE COVERAGE OF SERVICES DESCRIBED IN THIS FORM TO THE NAMED DOCTOR.


___________________________________________________________
SIGNATURE OF PATIENT (PARENT/GUARDIAN)

OFFICE VERIFICATION






I know dat it ain too excitin, but i’s got all de necessary fields.
Seat patient in consult room with doctor. What is your primary concern?
Like it ever fuckin happens dat way. Der’s no fuckin time.
“It is likewise to reduce real time to abstract physical time, to the essentially quantitative time which is that of the objectivity of mundane calendars from which the signs that gave a sacred qualification to every present have disappeared.”
More Henry Corbin, not like it’s ever gonna do me any good. I’m not even allowed to be concerned with the difference between what’s alive and what isn’t.
What can we do for you today?
COMMON USES: This medicine is a benzodiazepine used to relieve anxiety and cause drowsiness before certain medical procedures. It may also be used to treat other conditions as determined by your doctor.
ADDITIONAL MONITORING OF YOUR DOSE OR CONDITION may be needed if you are taking metformin, probenecid, or blood thinners (such as warfarin). THIS MEDICINE MAY AFFECT CERTAIN LAB TEST RESULTS. Make sure laboratory personnel and your doctors know you use this medicine. When the room fills what will that be like?
Furthermore, I have all dese other assignments dat Kretschmar’s asked me to complete. Assist with one or more studies exploring language development. How infants identify the sound patterns of their native languages; how toddlers learn word meanings; interactions between language and conceptual development in two-four year-olds. Coding recorded data.

What is it to have successful communication? True beliefs are essential to interpretation, though there’s always some possibility of error. Successful communication entails mainly true beliefs are being held by both communicators. You have to assume that a believer holds true beliefs in order to allow for communication at all. This is Davidson’s Principle of Charity. It seems to take us back to a notion of similarity. Davidson says that if knowing one’s thoughts depends on external factors (for individuation) then thoughts would be altered according to environment.

I bin readin Carey’s posts lately. She seems pretty angry, though she refuses to engage in any sort of communication with me. Can’t really blame her for dat, I s’pose.
Do people pay attention to me at all? Similar changes in the expression of anxiety also occur. In the beginning of therapy, anxiety may be diffuse.The patient may be generally withdrawn and frightened, tense and garrulous, or over-anxious about being clean, neat, orderly. Reminds me of someone trying to eat soap. Who was dat, Maro?
Maybe if I changed her environment or something.
Before we left the fire to go in we had to study the sky: the weather, the stars.

Der’s gonna be trouble in JMac’s session today, I know it. Maro, look what he turned in to Jo: Ill Communication
These days, everyone is up in arms over decisions made by the CRTC regarding Canadian content. However, there is a much larger issue at stake here, namely access to the very infrastructures over which Canadian content is transmitted. Generally, people seem to feel that more competition can only be a good thing for the Canadian consumer. According to major telecommunications companies like Telus, opening up the Canadian marketplace will result in better services at lower rates. However, it’s likely that the average Canadian consumer will end up paying more for a basic level of service.
The former monopoly telecommunications companies no longer have an interest in maintaining a basic level of service for individual consumers. When these companies compete for marketshare in a particular location, they do so by offering an initially low rate that does not last for the duration of the contract that a consumer must sign in order to receive service. This is bad enough in cities that can support a variety of options for telecommunications services. The consumer must be vigilant and read the fine print whenever a contract is signed, all the while remaining aware of the fact that the company with whom the contract is being signed will not have the consumer’s best interests at heart. In the end, a city-dweller could simply refuse to sign-up for any internet or phone connection. Living and working in a city without these services certainly isn’t fun, but it probably won’t endanger your life. When it comes to the great number of sparsely populated communities that make up Canada, it’s not safe to live and work without telecommunications. In fact, it’s pretty risky to live in isolation without immediate contact with other members of one’s community. There are many small communities in Canada that have yet to receive the capacity to serve cell phones; but this will change in May of 2008 when Canadian wireless spectrum will again be auctioned-off. These are isolated areas, where people have greater need for cell phones than those who live in cities. Originally, these areas were serviced by the former monopoly companies who ran landline telecommunications in Canada on behalf of Canadian citizens. It used to be the case that any Canadian who wanted phone service could have it by paying a fee that was in keeping with the cost of living at the time. The infrastructure of this system of telecommunication was sponsored by the Canadian government because it was in the best interest of the average, tax-paying citizen. Times have certainly changed, but for isolated communities throughout Canada telecommunications are still akin to an essential service.
It might seem as though today’s fast-paced technological developments would create potential for new modes of telecommunication, however, most of the technology being developed is already owned by the largest corporations in Canadian telecommunications. The Canadian Association of Voice Over IP Providers is a not-for-profit group formed in 2005 by voice over IP providers who felt they needed a means to lobby for their concerns with the telecommunications industry. Leslie Bester, a CAVP board member, maintains that VOIP could not exist without access to competition networks. “Somehow, someone feels that it is possible to build the same infrastructure and compete, trenching fiber, conduits and building a parallel network... It’s simply impossible.” He believes that because it is dominated by a only a few carriers “there is effectively no competition in the wireless arena in Canada”. Even if an up-and-coming new wireless company manages to do well against Canada’s big three (Bell, Rogers, and Telus), chances are that one of these corporations will buy that company out. One example of this occurrence is Fido. Somehow Microcell Connexions, Inc. was able to launch Fido in 1996. They had won a bid for wireless spectrum in the auction that took place in 1995. Yet, by 2002 Microcell was struggling. Andre Tremblay, then President and Chief Executive Officer of Microcell Telecommunications cited “the currently unfavourable market conditions in the wireless telecommunications and mobile internet sector” as the reason for discontinuing its efforts to externally market a new mobile commerce platform. This decision resulted in the elimination of 18 positions in their Montreal office, including the Chief Operating Officer of the project. By 2003, Microcell was filing for bankruptcy protection and by 2004 they had accepted an offer from Rogers Communications for $1.4-billion. Another example of this occurence is Clearnet Communications. Telus chose not to fight for wireless spectrum in the auction of 1995. Instead, they waited and watched while Clearnet Communications, another company that had won a wireless spectrum bid, slowly went under. As the year 2000 rolled in, Telus took control of Clearnet Communications for $6.6-billion. Granted, this was the largest deal in the history of Canadian telecommunications, which might have been wonderful for the people of Clearnet Communications but not so great for the Canadian consumer. At the time of the merger, Clearnet had the maximum amount of bandwidth allowed by Ottawa. Now, Telus has more wireless spectrum allocated to them than any other wireless company in Canada. And they want more.


Everyone knows dat shit was written by C. Gibson, way back at de beginnin o’de millenium, fer fuck’sake. Does JMac think we’re idiots? Maybe he’s tryin to tell us somethin. What de fuck is he doin? Plus, his evaluation is comin up. Time to find out whether he ready to mix wid real society yet. Maybe da’s why he actin up. Alright, den. Lets find JMac an do some sorta simulation, already. This issue is pertinent to nonconditioning paradigms in which awareness of experimental contingencies is measured.
“But at that point it was concluded that the crime itself could only have been committed in a state of some temporary disturbance of the mind, as it were, under the influence of some dangerous monomania...”
“If I may interrupt you for a moment, I’d like to tell you more about the awareness measure used in JMac’s, uh sorry, #060997’s case.”
“You have the floor, now, Dr. X.”
“This awareness measure is directed toward a different set of hypotheses, one other than what was originally recorded.”
“You mean you changed the scope of this particular experiment?”
“It has more to do with the subject’s knowledge of what behavioral outcome is predicted. Here, let me just show you this’imulation. I think you’ll get a better understanding of what I’m trying to explain.”



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“This is fuckin bullshit, man. Why do I gotta even think about this shit?”
“Well, JMac, I dunno what else to say to you. Want an entry level position?”
“You know what that sounds like to me, man?”
“Yeah, I know, but we gotta start you off somewhere. You gotta have goals. Whether you like it or not, you gotta have goals.”
“You mean, I gotta have gaols.”
“Wha?”
Where did’at fuckin vocabulary come from? JMac been playin a lotta Scrabulous lately or what? Or, could be dis ain JMac at all. Better turn on de Turing test. Ha ha ha.
“Listen, JMac. At least one or two members o’de panel (especially de psychologists) are gonna be askin you dese kinda questions. If you were actually to admit de possibility dat you were at fault... You need to acknowledge de part dat you play in dis whole process, JMac. For your own good.”
“Good? What does any of you mothafuckers know about good!”
His levels are shootin outta control. He’s gonna get reprimanded if he don’t watch it. Certainly SEEMS like JMac.
“I’m fuckin public property, man! They don’t care about MY good.”
“Speakin as a person who is also public property, I can tell you dat dey care very much about YOUR good. If you self-destruct, or take someone else down wid you somehow, den they’ll lose der investment. It’s as simple as dat JMac. Everyone wants you healthy. We ain’t an SB clinic.”
At least, as far as I know we ain’t.

“It was in A Dorm. I was beginnin to sharpen my senses to a very fine point. I taught myself to sleep soundly. But I can wake up totally alert if anyone comes within a metre of my bed. I can sense stares when my back is turned. And I know never to sleep with my bedding tucked in.”
Well, dis definitely sounds like JMac.
“So, dis all before you came to Townsend, right? In one o’dem SB facilities down south?”
“Yeah.”
“I think you should tell dis’hit to de committee when you meet wid’em, y’know? Jus’tell’em like it is. Don’t hold back.”
“When I went into highschool the fuckin guidance counselor steered me. He said,
‘You’re industrial arts.’ Y’know, latex shops, synthetic binding, makin boxes, glass, all o’that fuckin toxic shit.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“The whole point was you were assigned to that because you were disposable. Nobody cared what happened to me, like ever, man. So how am I s’posed to care? I don’t even need to be alive until twenty-five. What’s the point? All the good shit’s over by then, if there was ever any in the first place.”
“JMac, I can’t really give you a good reason to stay alive. In and of itself, that’s just the thing: there is no good reason to live. That’s the absurdity of it all. I do know that if you were to die, I would miss you -”
“Yeah, but you’re just a-”
“Shutup, man. I’m tryna tell you somethin. The only thing that makes life worth living is the people around you.”
“Yeah, but they’re all shit.”
“Who you callin shit?”
“You know what I mean.”
“Oh, so I ain’t a real person. Is dat it?”
“When the committee asks me about the riot, I say nothing. You say, ‘Why?’ I say, ‘Why bother?’”
Dis kid gettin as bad as Randt wid’e goddam movie quotes. I wonder if even he knows where he gets dem from.
“JMac dis’erious, man. Dis meetin can change yer life. Don’t you wanna go somewhere OUT of Townsend one day?”

“Yeah, I know. After the interview, send a thankyou note, etc., etc.”
After the interview, send a Thank-You Note. When you call back say, “I have now met with many people in the industry and have now targeted some companies I would like to work for. I was very impressed with your organization so I wanted to let you know I am very interested in your company and would like the opportunity to work there. Is it okay if I forward my resume to you? (only if you have not yet given it to them). If you know of any position for which I might be qualified will you please let me know? I will keep in touch and let you know how it is going?”
After your initial follow up call, call back in two or three weeks and say: “I just wanted to let you know I am still open to work for your company and wanted to check in with you to see if you had any leads or heard of anything coming up.”

Keep accurate records of each call and what was said.

Remember that these contacts may be useful even when you are working so make sure you maintain the relationship you have developed with them by staying in touch. Lastly... follow up, follow up, follow up!!!
“It sounds to me, JMac, dat you gotta start somewhere, eh?”
“An entry level position? You know what that sounds like to me? To me, it sounds like pushin a fuckin broom around for the next 20 fuckin years, man.”
“I know what you’re scared of -”
“SCARED? Scared? I’ve been turning upside down. SCARED? There are guys in the Field who done a lot of reading on these kinda jobs. You know, like, there’s running a lathe, and it’s gonna take an hour to go from here to there with the cutting tool. My dad used to read on that kinda job. I remember when me an my dad would wander down to the rocks along Lake Michigan. We’d talk the whole night - about baseball, about family, about his union. So, when he got me my first job it was in the South plant machine shop. The guys called it ‘Happy Valley’ because compared to places like the blast furnace, it was a pretty great place to work. Real fuckin work, man.”
Where de fuck is he gettin dis’hit from? His dad. Oh well, one cliche deserves another.
“A workin class hero is somethin to be.”
“Most of the time, people are hardly ever doing the tasks assigned to them in their job description. It’s like those things take up a fragment of their day and they just spend the rest of their time wanking-off, or figuring out how to climb up the ladder to their next promotion. And then because...”
This session is goin downhill fast. Wait. What’s that? Jo is openin the door to Kretschmar’s office.
“Shhshshh, JMac. Be quiet for a second, ok? I gotta listen.”
The man behind the mask is underneath the fan now.
“LISTEN? You gotta LISTEN? You supposed to be listenin to me, man!”
“I want to listen to someone other dan you for a minute, ok? Gawd, JMac, sometimes you’re so self-centered.”
“What the fuck, man? This is MY fuckin session!”
“Shhhshhh!”

Jo is inside Kretschmar's office. Why?
"Hey there, Dr. Kretschmar?"
"Hmm?"
She barely looks up from her paperwork.
"I was uh, wondering, do you think that you could, like turn Dr. X down or something?"
Kretschmar looks up, confusion on her face.
"What do you mean, turn her down? Is there something wrong?"
"Well, it's just that, well. She seems kinda hyper lately, almost, y'know, like manic or something."
"Hmmm. I'll look into it. Monitor her behaviour over the next week and get back to me. I'll see what I can do."
"Ok. Thanks. See ya later."
Kretschmar's already gone back to her paperwork.