HELLO rn
Greetings friends and lovers. I hope everyone is doing well. So, the autumnal equinox has passed and we are plunging headfirst into fall. I love this time of year, but I am not so into these 40 degree Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees CentriGrade) nights and early mornings. The colors are nice though. Well, good news with regard to ma mere, she has gotten into some senior housing in SW Detroit called Rio Vista Co Op, which is really really nice and amazing to me that such places are actually real. I am so grateful for that. Her apartment is very clean and new looking, she has a stupid amount of closet space, appliances, etc. There's a communal laundry and really pretty community areas as well. She seems to like it, and she can see the Ambassador Bridge through her window and can walk to both St. Anne's Catholic Church and Honey Bee Market.
We've gotten most of her income and stuff sorted out, and I've had a crash course in mental health policy over the past couple months. Basically, it quite literally does come down to the individual reaching out for services and being diagnosed by a psychiatrist OR a family member obtaining guardianship and/or power of attorney (and to do so has to prove that the person is completely incapable to caring for him or herself). Both of these have a ton of costs associated with achieving them. Everything is for profit. I'm feeling pretty jaded by this realization, but I guess I should have seen it coming - we are Capitalists after all. Altruism cannot truly exist because we live in a transactional world - even regarding social welfare. People piss and moan about raising taxes and corruption and wall street and banks and global warming and ebola and genocide but we're all doing it so we should just change but we won't because we're greedy and comfortable.
Ugh. Sorry, I'll get off my soap box. Speaking of ebola, I am impressed to tears about the American men and women in the health care industry who are going over to West Africa. I think that is amazingly selfless and totally against the theory behind my aforementioned rant, and so I guess that gives me hope. So maybe not all is lost. Maybe I need to start seeing a head shrinker again. I don't know.
Anyway, I went to California a few weeks ago! I stayed with my gurl Kelsie on Haight St. in San Francisco for the majority of the time, but I bopped around a lot. I had a wonderful time, but I admit I felt sad at times and full of anxiety about missing work. I got to go sailing though! First time ever, best time ever, man.
[EDIT]: Oh! I forgot to mention. I turned 28 last week and I ate seared foie gras for the first time. I ordered it from distributor online called Dartagnan (I think they're Canadian?) It was very delicious, but very rich (and also illegal in the State of California - tres dangereux). Though, it was frozen, I still thought it tasted pretty fresh. But I guess I wouldn't know, because I've never had it before. I guess I'll have to try the real stuff in gay ol Paris :-P
We've gotten most of her income and stuff sorted out, and I've had a crash course in mental health policy over the past couple months. Basically, it quite literally does come down to the individual reaching out for services and being diagnosed by a psychiatrist OR a family member obtaining guardianship and/or power of attorney (and to do so has to prove that the person is completely incapable to caring for him or herself). Both of these have a ton of costs associated with achieving them. Everything is for profit. I'm feeling pretty jaded by this realization, but I guess I should have seen it coming - we are Capitalists after all. Altruism cannot truly exist because we live in a transactional world - even regarding social welfare. People piss and moan about raising taxes and corruption and wall street and banks and global warming and ebola and genocide but we're all doing it so we should just change but we won't because we're greedy and comfortable.
Ugh. Sorry, I'll get off my soap box. Speaking of ebola, I am impressed to tears about the American men and women in the health care industry who are going over to West Africa. I think that is amazingly selfless and totally against the theory behind my aforementioned rant, and so I guess that gives me hope. So maybe not all is lost. Maybe I need to start seeing a head shrinker again. I don't know.
Anyway, I went to California a few weeks ago! I stayed with my gurl Kelsie on Haight St. in San Francisco for the majority of the time, but I bopped around a lot. I had a wonderful time, but I admit I felt sad at times and full of anxiety about missing work. I got to go sailing though! First time ever, best time ever, man.
[EDIT]: Oh! I forgot to mention. I turned 28 last week and I ate seared foie gras for the first time. I ordered it from distributor online called Dartagnan (I think they're Canadian?) It was very delicious, but very rich (and also illegal in the State of California - tres dangereux). Though, it was frozen, I still thought it tasted pretty fresh. But I guess I wouldn't know, because I've never had it before. I guess I'll have to try the real stuff in gay ol Paris :-P