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I just finished reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter, By Kim Edwards. It's one of those books that you can't quite figure out why you like it so much, but you just want to keep reading. It's the story about a doctor who had to deliver his own babies during a snow storm. His son is fine, but when he delivers his daughter (who was a suprise, they weren't aware that they were having twins), he finds that she has downs syndrome. Since this was 1964, there was not a lot of hope for people with disabilities and he gives his nurse the baby to take to an institution. When she arrives at the institution, she decides that she can't leave the baby there, and disapears to another city and raises Phobe as her own daughter. The doctor, in turn, tells his wife that the daughter died at birth. The book then follows the two different stories as they go through life. It's a great book, I highly recommend it.
Life is ticking along. I'm trying to get everything done for my classes before school ends. I feel like it's not that much, but since I haven't really been organized this whole semster, it's going to take a lot of work to get everything done. The extra down side is the fact that I am always running around. Sure I have time to do some work at the switchboard, but it's hard to gather everything that I could possibly need for my projects and drag it all to the switchboard. Plus, it's really the only time I have to sit and 'relax', so it's hard to get motivated to do work. I'm glad that there are only a few more weeks until break.
In other news, things at Shepherd have been crazy... People not doing their job right, people just plain not doing their job. It annoys me that some of my co-workers take their responsibilities so lightly. You are employed to take care of people! Although they have developmental disabilities, they are still humans, they deserve to be taken care of at the same level that you would expect for yourself. Sometimes, I think that the consumers are at a higher functioning level than some of my coworkers. Now, this of course, doesn't go for all my coworkers, just a select few actually. The largest problem is, their inability... wait, no. Their unwillingness to do their job correctly causes more work for us, not only in picking up the slack, but also fixing the things that they don't do correctly the first time. It's not a difficult job... but as long as they are getting paid to do nothing, they will not change their patterns. Someone needs to light a fire under their butts... we'll see how long it takes before they get their act together... if at all.
Switchboard is good. It's been busy these past couple days... seems more so than usual, but I could be wrong... well, I may write more later, but my shift here is done, so i'm heading home.
Life is ticking along. I'm trying to get everything done for my classes before school ends. I feel like it's not that much, but since I haven't really been organized this whole semster, it's going to take a lot of work to get everything done. The extra down side is the fact that I am always running around. Sure I have time to do some work at the switchboard, but it's hard to gather everything that I could possibly need for my projects and drag it all to the switchboard. Plus, it's really the only time I have to sit and 'relax', so it's hard to get motivated to do work. I'm glad that there are only a few more weeks until break.
In other news, things at Shepherd have been crazy... People not doing their job right, people just plain not doing their job. It annoys me that some of my co-workers take their responsibilities so lightly. You are employed to take care of people! Although they have developmental disabilities, they are still humans, they deserve to be taken care of at the same level that you would expect for yourself. Sometimes, I think that the consumers are at a higher functioning level than some of my coworkers. Now, this of course, doesn't go for all my coworkers, just a select few actually. The largest problem is, their inability... wait, no. Their unwillingness to do their job correctly causes more work for us, not only in picking up the slack, but also fixing the things that they don't do correctly the first time. It's not a difficult job... but as long as they are getting paid to do nothing, they will not change their patterns. Someone needs to light a fire under their butts... we'll see how long it takes before they get their act together... if at all.
Switchboard is good. It's been busy these past couple days... seems more so than usual, but I could be wrong... well, I may write more later, but my shift here is done, so i'm heading home.