~.: Now that it's December, I feel the need to sort of reflect on the year. This year was the best and worst year of my life, which makes it really hard to fully appreciate the things that contribute to it being the worst and best. On the one hand, I ended a relationship that had been bad from the start. January started with drama in that ( Read more... )

~.: This morning was the start of my new job. Aha. Let's talk about that, and how the drama started last night. Because I've had horrible study habits since high school and haven't bothered to change them, I waited until last night to start putting everything together, including my parent board and my lesson plan. I wanted to be in bed by 8 so that ( Read more... )

~.: I think I finally understand disthymia. Today, I just feel sort of ... blah. I'm not depressed or wanting to curl up and sob today, but I did cry a little bit after I got off the phone with my supervisor and she told me she was writing me up for not meeting my minimum hours with clients, and then I heard a song that made me think of Mikey. But ( Read more... )

~.: I'm having a bit of an identity crisis, and because I don't want to continue to spam Facebook with my career woes, I'll just put it all down here. I really just want to know what's wrong with me. I know the things I love and am good at, but I get frustrated too easily when those things don't do anything for me. Point in case, my job ( Read more... )

~.: Oh, hi there, internet. Didn't see you there; been too busy with serious real life crap to update. I feel like it might be time to though, so here's what's been going on in my life since the last time we talked ( Read more... )

~.: My number of the day dictates that I "may find [myself] feeling somewhat accident prone at work" today. My hands are full of splinters from the 2x4 I used to shove garbage into a compacter, whose door on which I pinched my hand, sometime after nearly being killed by a falling stack of other 2x4s. :D Accident prone does not begin to describe it ( Read more... )

~.: So I'm really excited that I have this awesome new job now, but the problem of it is that if I don't work, I don't get paid. I received my first case on Monday, and called the client's mother today to set up an initial meeting. She didn't answer, so I left a voicemail. I haven't gotten a call back yet, and I don't know the protocol for ( Read more... )

~.: So today was a pretty productive day. I even went grocery shopping and everything! And I originally wanted to update with all the awesome that was this past weekend into today, but my ex decided to call me and ruin everything. Because he wanted to know what I was working next so he could stop in the store and I could "give him guidance for his ( Read more... )

~.: So I'm a member of relationhelp, and a girl made a post there this morning about living with her mom and stepdad, who is addicted to the medications he's taking for a number of psychiatric illnesses. Through talking to her about the nature of addiction and co-occurring mental illnesses, and finding resources for her, and recommending her to some al-anon ( Read more... )

~.: So during my visit with my mom this Christmas, she and I got to talking about work and my job search, and how there are absolutely no opportunities in my area that I actually qualify for without my Master's degree. I started then to whine about how easy it would be for me to get a job in New York, especially considering I already have ( Read more... )