The State Of My Union.
I was so sad to hear about Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall passing away this week. Lauren Bacall was a classy lady and I was so sorry to see her go. Robin Williams' death was just a shock and a tragedy. My dad was a huge fan of his when I was growing up. He was so delighted when we got cable and he discovered Nick At Nite had reruns of Mork
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Crazy week. Suffering through summer reading grading for AP. Can't decide if I am glad or disgusted that over half of the kids did not bother (glad: don't have to grade it. mad: don't be such lazy fucks, you fucking lazy fuckers who think you're so great but have no evidence proving it!).
Movies: GoTG is WONDERFUL!
Mom's surgery: Thank heavens, what an enormous relief, I'm so glad!
Medicaid: See comments on Mom above!
Tests - ugh, but yay for good results.
Evil children are evil. Hit them with rocks. (not really, but sheesh, crappy mother much?)
Robin Williams - SO AWFUL. I wish that knowing how much he impacted people's lives for the better could have made a difference in HIS life. I've teared up randomly all week. Lauren Bacall - not as sad, because she had a full long life.
Gotta get back to the grading. Hope to write this weekend. Mentioning again: two new short pieces on my journal that you might like if you haven't cruised on by. So crazy this week I can't remember. Boo!
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Evil children are evil. Hit them with rocks. (not really, but sheesh, crappy mother much?)
I told myself if that little boy came at us one more time with his rude inappropriateness, I was going to tell him to get away from me before I beat his ass. Now, I never would, but I bet I could have said that to him and his mom wouldn't have even noticed. Thankfully, they called me back into the room right then. These kids were suffering from obvious malnutrition, combined with the behavior I saw form their mother, means they were being pretty severely neglected and that was as upsetting (or more upsetting actually) than anything they were saying and doing.
Robin Williams - SO AWFUL. I wish that knowing how much he impacted people's lives for the better could have ( ... )
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Can you report her to child services, maybe? I'm sure the doctor's office has all of her information....
Still getting all burny-eyed for Robin. Not crying, anymore, but that stinging feeling like you're ABOUT to cry? yeah, that. :(
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AHAHAHAHA See, it totally makes sense. Actually, Rocket is just a tiny furry version of Jayne Cobb and you KNOW how I feel about Jayne Cobb!!!
Can you report her to child services, maybe? I'm sure the doctor's office has all of her information....
I may have been able to say something to the receptionist at the time I was there but odds are they would have just asked the mother to calm her children down as they were disrupting patients. They certainly wouldn't give me any of the people's information so that I could accurately report what I was seeing (using the terminology I was trained to report with) because of medical privacy issues. Sadly, I see way too many kids fall through the cracks, as I assume you do too.
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Yeah, in child care you are legally obligated to report as well. Back in my day - lol - we were always taught to tell the head boss and let them report and then they could refer the social worker to us for an interview if needed. However, I turned in 4 different cases of abuse, at two different jobs, and not one of them was ever actually reported by my bosses. I was young - teens to early 20s - so I didn't take the initiative I should have and in at least one case, I really regret it because something really bad was going on with that girl. My last boss actually got in trouble with social services when a teacher reported bruises on a kid and my boss not only hadn't reported it as well, but poo-pooed the social worker about it when they showed up. Sometimes I really wanted to strangle my bosses.
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