So, not really. Same man, but new car and new apartment! I'm moving in on Feb 3rd, and have the frantic feeling I'm missing something. Skillets, end tables, organizational items (because Lord knows I need them!)...but never thinking about utilities, or any of the important things. But i did find some great table clothes I'm going to turn into ( Read more... )

So everything is back in full swing at Heartspring. Before we left I felt very certain of my capabilities to help these students curb their behaviors. But this week I've been so nervous around them, and I realized I'm afraid they won't like me if I'm being "tough" (as tough as I get, let's be honest). I'm more concerned about avoiding behaviors ( Read more... )

It's amazing how an autistic person, someone not wired to communicate, enlivens all my senses. In helping them reach out, I make myself vulnerable and in the vulnerability blossom ( Read more... )

At what point can one go into the adminstration and tell them, "Teacher X is a boob, disrepectful to everyone (including herself), and digressing the progress of students"? Just wondering ( Read more... )

So, I've been taking medicine for my anxiety since I was a junior in High School (yet I had the melt down Junior year of college, but whatever). I've thought of weening off of it a few times in the past, but just never have (for one reason or another). I forgot to refill my prescription...well, couldn't refill my prescription, and haven't been ( Read more... )

So I feel like this is just a place where i update what is going on with my job...and I guess it is ( Read more... )

So I've discovered something new about myself. I DO have Patience...albeit a smaller amount than I hoped for. After outbursts for a student, when he/she returns to their happy self, I return with them instead of staying mad. I totally figured that the first time I had to deal with behaviors I would hold it against the student for the rest of the ( Read more... )

So I haven't posted in a while. I've been so tired by the time I get home in the evening...oy vey. I'm so ready to move to Wichita and not have to get up BEFORE the ass crack of dawn, and driving to Wichita with all the nutso's who don't know how to drive. Speaking of not knowing how to drive, I called in to Durham today to report a bus driver ( Read more... )

So I am officially an employee of Heartspring! And I Friday I got excited about my first BM...well, not mine, but my student who I get ready in the morning (he hasn't been eating or BMing...not that you probably want to know). I was so excited, we had to tell the nurse in the lunchline, and all the other para's in our room. Yep, I'm official. ( Read more... )

Yep...I got bored again!

You Are Surrealism
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