Days Like This
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Days like this are so physically and emotionally draining. In so many ways, this line of work is both spontaneous and rigorously scheduled. We are expected to attend hearings at a certain time, just to wait who knows how long for our case to be called. We can schedule 3 visits just to have all three cancel an hour before the first one was scheduled to begin due to illnesses. Or, like today, a designated “paperwork day” became a day of running around and emotional highs and lows, as a case blew up in my face first thing this morning. It’s amazing how quickly the day goes by when that happens and it’s equally amazing at how little work actually gets done on these days. I was almost 45 minutes late for my lunch break (which Lily did not like one bit) and then my lunch break ended up being a little shorter because I had some work on another case that I needed to get done before I hopped back into the blown up case. And now I’m home waiting for my husband to come home so that we can go grocery shopping. I’ve slipped into my jeans and a nice, warm pair of socks…attempting to wind down as much as I can before we tackle the store, and then dinner, and then perhaps my back and body will let me feel somewhat human again. Bedtime can’t come quickly enough tonight, and the weekend will be a very welcome occurrence.
Yet, when there are other job opportunities in our office, I don’t even consider applying for them because I really don’t have any desire to change what I’m doing right now. And so, another day, another set of unknowns…
Days like this are so physically and emotionally draining. In so many ways, this line of work is both spontaneous and rigorously scheduled. We are expected to attend hearings at a certain time, just to wait who knows how long for our case to be called. We can schedule 3 visits just to have all three cancel an hour before the first one was scheduled to begin due to illnesses. Or, like today, a designated “paperwork day” became a day of running around and emotional highs and lows, as a case blew up in my face first thing this morning. It’s amazing how quickly the day goes by when that happens and it’s equally amazing at how little work actually gets done on these days. I was almost 45 minutes late for my lunch break (which Lily did not like one bit) and then my lunch break ended up being a little shorter because I had some work on another case that I needed to get done before I hopped back into the blown up case. And now I’m home waiting for my husband to come home so that we can go grocery shopping. I’ve slipped into my jeans and a nice, warm pair of socks…attempting to wind down as much as I can before we tackle the store, and then dinner, and then perhaps my back and body will let me feel somewhat human again. Bedtime can’t come quickly enough tonight, and the weekend will be a very welcome occurrence.
Yet, when there are other job opportunities in our office, I don’t even consider applying for them because I really don’t have any desire to change what I’m doing right now. And so, another day, another set of unknowns…