What are the areas of professional practice that capture my interest (this might be a disorder, anything relating to treatment or diagnosis, etc.)? With respect to this general topic, what would an essential question for me be? What do I already know about this topic? What don't I know about this topic?

I am not really sure which areas of professional practice interest me the most. I have not studied or learned a lot about these topics yet. However, because I have a grandfather who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and have seen his experiences throughout the disease, I would like to learn more about the illness. What causes Parkinson’s disease and how does it affect one’s body (what happens physically)? These are things that I would like to find out. I know that it somehow affects the person’s muscles. It also changes the quality of one’s voice by making it breathy.
I do not know what happens to the brain. Before my grandfather’s illness progressed, he was able to talk, though it took him a while to say something and sometimes he would loose train of thought in the middle of his sentence. I am also curious as to why people shake. The person suffering from Parkinson’s disease has a rapid shake-like movement in his hand. What causes the muscles to do this?

My goal this week was to get all my assignments done before this weekend--and it looks like I am going to accomplish it!! I still have one more to do, along with this journal, but after that I'll be done. I tried to get a lot done in the begining of the week because I knew most of my extra time would be then, and I would feel a lot better the sooner I got the assignments done. The main reason that I wanted to get the work done early is because today is my 21st birthday(woo hoo!!) and I knew that I wouldn't want to do homework over the weekend. I felt pretty comfortable with all the assignments that were due this week. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do my research on, though (obviously, that is the assignment that I haven't done yet).
Well I'm going to try to think of something I find interesting so that I'll be done by today & reach my goal......wish me luck:)