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I am not a happy camper right now.
I just got home from work a short while ago and I thought I'd be asleep by now. But I'm trying to decompress from work. The new student, who is an angel for day staff apparently, aggresses and bolts and is non compliant every single morning. This morning she went for my glasses and scratched the side of my face. Now granted, I am really lucky that she didn't A) break my glasses and B) gouge my eye, I'm still kind of in a shitty mood. The scratches aren't very deep, but 2 hours later they're still fucking burning.
To add insult to injury, one of the assistant manager comes in and kind of gives me an attitude over the whole thing. She doesn't understand why she's not allowed to be out of her room and sit in the living room, despite the fact she knows that one of the students' behaviors is bolting and there is no one between her and the door when she's downstairs because of where the overnights are required to be. The behavior department told me that in the morning before day staff gets there it is bolting if she runs by me down to living room from her room and it's my job to attempt to block her. The overnight supervisor has told me that we need to teach her to stay in her room until day staff arrives. She also, for some reason, doesn't seem to want to believe that the student is not responsive to the prompt "later" and her schedule the way she is during the day. Those things work for maybe five or ten minutes, and then I'm back to blocking, getting aggressed towards, doing the time out, and trying to get her back upstairs. I've been trying to brainstorm for the last hour or so what else we can try during the shift. Because while I realize she is improving since she got there 3 weeks ago, we're still having the same issues in the morning.
Ugh, so anyway, accomplishments for Wednesday 11/22 to Thursday 11/23:
-Went to the gym and was on treadmill for about 35 minutes (and multi-tasked writing too!)
-Dropped stuff off with mom for the Princess House party.
-Went to the bank
-Got fixings for peanut butter fudge
-Did some dishes
-Made said peanut butter fudge
-Worked my 10 hour shift and managed to not to cry from pain and frustration until I got on the road.
-Wrote about 2200 words, not counting what I wrote at the gym, and finished chapters 4 & 5. Now they just need to be editted and they can be sent off. I'm not sure about the order of events and debating about adding a chapter in between, but I really need to get something to him.
Now I'm going to take my benedryl, melatonin, and one of the few anti-anxieties I got last week and try to pass out. If I can get to sleep then I can go to the future in-law's for Thanksgiving before I go to work.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. When I'm not so cranky I'll be more thankful. u.u
I just got home from work a short while ago and I thought I'd be asleep by now. But I'm trying to decompress from work. The new student, who is an angel for day staff apparently, aggresses and bolts and is non compliant every single morning. This morning she went for my glasses and scratched the side of my face. Now granted, I am really lucky that she didn't A) break my glasses and B) gouge my eye, I'm still kind of in a shitty mood. The scratches aren't very deep, but 2 hours later they're still fucking burning.
To add insult to injury, one of the assistant manager comes in and kind of gives me an attitude over the whole thing. She doesn't understand why she's not allowed to be out of her room and sit in the living room, despite the fact she knows that one of the students' behaviors is bolting and there is no one between her and the door when she's downstairs because of where the overnights are required to be. The behavior department told me that in the morning before day staff gets there it is bolting if she runs by me down to living room from her room and it's my job to attempt to block her. The overnight supervisor has told me that we need to teach her to stay in her room until day staff arrives. She also, for some reason, doesn't seem to want to believe that the student is not responsive to the prompt "later" and her schedule the way she is during the day. Those things work for maybe five or ten minutes, and then I'm back to blocking, getting aggressed towards, doing the time out, and trying to get her back upstairs. I've been trying to brainstorm for the last hour or so what else we can try during the shift. Because while I realize she is improving since she got there 3 weeks ago, we're still having the same issues in the morning.
Ugh, so anyway, accomplishments for Wednesday 11/22 to Thursday 11/23:
-Went to the gym and was on treadmill for about 35 minutes (and multi-tasked writing too!)
-Dropped stuff off with mom for the Princess House party.
-Went to the bank
-Got fixings for peanut butter fudge
-Did some dishes
-Made said peanut butter fudge
-Worked my 10 hour shift and managed to not to cry from pain and frustration until I got on the road.
-Wrote about 2200 words, not counting what I wrote at the gym, and finished chapters 4 & 5. Now they just need to be editted and they can be sent off. I'm not sure about the order of events and debating about adding a chapter in between, but I really need to get something to him.
Now I'm going to take my benedryl, melatonin, and one of the few anti-anxieties I got last week and try to pass out. If I can get to sleep then I can go to the future in-law's for Thanksgiving before I go to work.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. When I'm not so cranky I'll be more thankful. u.u