Charles Castleman, old friend and teacher from The Quartet Program lured me onto Facebook yesterday. Today I have a profile and friends and I have a feeling I should be afraid, very afraid. I'm joined to the internet at the hip already and I can't keep up here; how on earth will I manage something else?
However, I put the link to this blog on my profile to force an update. So, here goes:
My first year at Nazareth College has been wonderful. The faculty and staff here have been welcoming and supportive and I feel completely at home. I'm already a part of the team at our on-campus interdisciplinary clinic and have had some wonderful experiences co-treating -- and supervising students -- in the Aphasia Clinic. In February, faculty members from physical therapy, speech therapy, art therapy, social work, nursing, and music therapy all went to Colorado and went through the NMT training. It was an interesting experience which I will try to post about soon.
I'm beginning to meet and visit the numerous music therapists in the Rochester area, and I've been involved with the Music and Cognition Symposiums run by the U. of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, and Cornell University. I love where I'm living and so does Mackenzie!
Thanks to the great support here, I was able to finish my dissertation in a year and I will defend it Monday the 20th in Kansas. Last time I checked, the title was "Attention to Changes in Chord Complexity: An ERP Study." There will certainly be an update here when and if "Dr. King" arrives back in Rochester. Until then...
