Thursday, March 26, 2009
birthday
It's my birthday week... I'm not much for birthdays cause i tend to have high expectations, then things go wrong. So my goal this year is to relax and have a breezy attitude about the whole thing. Well my week officially started last night when one of my friends brought me a cookie cake to class :) ---Class was a bit more pleasant and it made my day. So thanks to Mari for a great start to the week!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
The Rest is Downhill...
Spring break is over and only 7 more weeks, then finals!
I am so ready for a break but the thought of completing all the papers and projects in less than 2 months---eek!
This weekend is my b-day- plus a couple of good friend's birthdays too!
Next weekend is Bekah's b-day and we're going to Abilene to camp for Friday night then Sunday is the Children Advocacy Center's Picnic in the Park---
And to top it all off the following weekend is Easter and I'm going home for 5 days!
---So although I'm excited it feels like time is going against me ----
I am so ready for a break but the thought of completing all the papers and projects in less than 2 months---eek!
This weekend is my b-day- plus a couple of good friend's birthdays too!
Next weekend is Bekah's b-day and we're going to Abilene to camp for Friday night then Sunday is the Children Advocacy Center's Picnic in the Park---
And to top it all off the following weekend is Easter and I'm going home for 5 days!
---So although I'm excited it feels like time is going against me ----
Monday, March 16, 2009
Spring Break
Spring Break 2009
My sis came down to visit me this weekend... We watched movies, went to a play at ASU, played scrabble :), lounged about, talked forever and chilled
This weekend really felt like spring break, however tomorrow it starts....
I have so much to do this break its a little overwhelming. An online exam to take, a research paper that really needs to be written and a book review that I have no idea how to write. Ugh Grad School is ruining my life! ---just kidding, but yeah it is :(
My sis came down to visit me this weekend... We watched movies, went to a play at ASU, played scrabble :), lounged about, talked forever and chilled
This weekend really felt like spring break, however tomorrow it starts....
I have so much to do this break its a little overwhelming. An online exam to take, a research paper that really needs to be written and a book review that I have no idea how to write. Ugh Grad School is ruining my life! ---just kidding, but yeah it is :(
Monday, March 9, 2009
Life at a place most unusual
Working at a psychiatric hospital is never boring। Once you walk through those hospital doors there’s no going back! You never know if it’ll be a great therapeutic day or utter chaos. When job hazards include being bitten, scratched, kicked, hit or even peed on you might consider these deterrents. But it just makes me love these kids more… I feel an ounce of what it must be like to be a parent. They are screaming “I hate you!” when you’re giving them a consequence and “I love you miss megan” an hour later!
I’ve heard unimaginable language come out of the most precious mouths. It’s strange that when a six year old screams “you’re a stupid head!” it is such a sweet-innocent sound…and to hear such a thing can almost bring tears to my eyes, or at least a smile to my face.
From kids that have no family to kids whose families drive them nuts, we all come to this mutual understanding of life(or at least “life at Rivercrest“)... We form roles in this strange place, roles of mothers, sisters, brothers, friends, and confidants. It is difficult to discourage the dating scene cause evidently hooking up at a mental hospital is appealing to some…
What truly keeps me coming back is the realization that me spending just a few minutes truly caring for these kids could change the way they see the world!-!-!
Wow, now thats responsibility... My job makes me completely and utterly exhausted, most of the time profoundly annoyed and always entirely spent... But I keep coming back everyday for all those reasons, all those -short, tall, thin, thick, light, dark, funny, scared, loving, sad, mad, confused, caring, troubled little children and adolescent reasons...
I’ve heard unimaginable language come out of the most precious mouths. It’s strange that when a six year old screams “you’re a stupid head!” it is such a sweet-innocent sound…and to hear such a thing can almost bring tears to my eyes, or at least a smile to my face.
From kids that have no family to kids whose families drive them nuts, we all come to this mutual understanding of life(or at least “life at Rivercrest“)... We form roles in this strange place, roles of mothers, sisters, brothers, friends, and confidants. It is difficult to discourage the dating scene cause evidently hooking up at a mental hospital is appealing to some…
What truly keeps me coming back is the realization that me spending just a few minutes truly caring for these kids could change the way they see the world!-!-!
Wow, now thats responsibility... My job makes me completely and utterly exhausted, most of the time profoundly annoyed and always entirely spent... But I keep coming back everyday for all those reasons, all those -short, tall, thin, thick, light, dark, funny, scared, loving, sad, mad, confused, caring, troubled little children and adolescent reasons...
Friday, February 27, 2009
workin the weekends....
I'm so excited... This weekend will be my last obligated weekend to work! I have worked weekends for as long as I can remember be it Recreation Therapy, Church Nursery or just living up at good ol' Rivercrest Hospital।
But now I am going to be free~
I will still work some Sundays to get my practicum hours but the obligation of punching a clock will be no more...
I just wanted to share my excitement--- Is this what having a life is all about? I guess we will find out huh... :)
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
~ Buddha ~
But now I am going to be free~
I will still work some Sundays to get my practicum hours but the obligation of punching a clock will be no more...
I just wanted to share my excitement--- Is this what having a life is all about? I guess we will find out huh... :)
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
~ Buddha ~
Friday, February 20, 2009
My First Blog
Everyone has those moments... Those "what is life all about" moments...
It feels as though mine have been lasting for an extended amount of time.
Is this how we stay passionate and appreciative or how we feel frustrated and overwhelmed?
I feel all of the above... I'm "appreciatively overwhelmed"---
1. Grad School
I don't know whose idea it was to make it socially acceptable to work a FULL time job and complete immense amounts of homework, paper writing, research and classes... Who ever the person was, I hate them. You feel less than adequate when you're exhausted after work and class even before you begin homework and always the work you "take home"...
2. 20 somethings
Everyone and their Grandmother knows that every nice young lady gets married and starts having babies once you're "20 something". Well for those of us who are "socially delayed" because we spend all of our free time in professors offices or in the research library this age requirement seems quite overwhelming. When I think of acquiring more responsibility it makes my insides feel like I'm at sea. So although all nice young ladies have settled down and have their 2.5 kids some of us would appreciate just a bit more time ;)
3. Family
"The family. A strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~Erma Bombeck
I could not pray for a more caring family, their love and concern are astonishing.
...8 sisters & 2 brothers...
When we're together we are loud, crazy, nerdy, hyper, immature, impulsive and so much fun!
It feels as though mine have been lasting for an extended amount of time.
Is this how we stay passionate and appreciative or how we feel frustrated and overwhelmed?
I feel all of the above... I'm "appreciatively overwhelmed"---
1. Grad School
I don't know whose idea it was to make it socially acceptable to work a FULL time job and complete immense amounts of homework, paper writing, research and classes... Who ever the person was, I hate them. You feel less than adequate when you're exhausted after work and class even before you begin homework and always the work you "take home"...
2. 20 somethings
Everyone and their Grandmother knows that every nice young lady gets married and starts having babies once you're "20 something". Well for those of us who are "socially delayed" because we spend all of our free time in professors offices or in the research library this age requirement seems quite overwhelming. When I think of acquiring more responsibility it makes my insides feel like I'm at sea. So although all nice young ladies have settled down and have their 2.5 kids some of us would appreciate just a bit more time ;)
3. Family
"The family. A strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." ~Erma Bombeck
I could not pray for a more caring family, their love and concern are astonishing.
...8 sisters & 2 brothers...
When we're together we are loud, crazy, nerdy, hyper, immature, impulsive and so much fun!
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