Mara, If you don't mind, we are right in the middle of a crisis right now so don't have time for pleasantries from any students who are thrilled to be entering the wonderous world of OT.
OK, I am totally kidding. Maybe it's just my twisted sense of humour, but your letter and cheerful enthusiasm are in stark contrast to a dilemma Ron is facing: I've been reading through the letters that started with Ron's Web Hosting company showing up on the deck of the OTlist ship, installed an electronic plank and have told him that he has to walk the 90 AOL members off of it, or risk having the ship blown out of the water. Then we have read grateful letters from a few distressed AOL members who have not yet been forced to walk the plank. You can feel the tension building and almost hear the ominous incidental music playing in the background. Then you burst onto the scene with a cheerful greeting and express your enthusiasm and refreshing hope and gratitude. I can imagine my shipmates almost jumping with your sudden arrival then quickly returning to their previous state of distress. O.k. I will admit that I really don't get out very much so my sense of humour may be a wee bit more off kilter than usual. Seriously, welcome to the group. Ron has established a great forum for discussing current and perennially important OT topics. I just found the archives today as well which you may find very useful too. Regarding the AOL concern: Just before I saw Mimiru's idea about using a Hotmail (or similar) account to recieve the OTlist letters, I was wondering the same thing. I can't see why it wouldn't work, unless Hotmail has a similar sensitivity to SPAM. Otherwise if you set up Hotmail, Ron would have it sent there, you could read it there and either deal with it from that address, or forward to your AOL account. Hopefully you wouldn't report your own Hotmail as spam through AOL, but even if someone did something like that either on purpose ( I don't know why), or by accident, I think it would be the Hotmail account that would be IDed as the spammer. One thing to check into with Hotmail though is to see if it leaves you in any way vulnerable to viruses. Recently we receieved a message from the IS department at our hospital telling us to be careful of using Hotmail accounts ( I think it was about opening any attachments, because they may be able to slip by somehow? ) This is obviously a serious issue but I think the hotmail option would likely remedy it. Good luck to our AOL friends, Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mara Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:22 PM Subject: [OTnow] Assessments Hi everyone! I'm a Junior OT student in the Bachelor's program at Xavier in Cincinnat, OH, USA. Its great to hear what "real" professionals are doing out there. I'm currently taking a class on Measurement; I was just wondering what kinds of standardized (or non standardized) assessments you guys used and what populations you work with. Thanks! Mara _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ================ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, visit: http://otnow.com/mailman/listinfo/otlist_otnow.com The OTnow Mail Archive: www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================
