Sickness
I’ve been sick. Blah. Ej has taken care of me, though. (: And Dylan gives extra kisses. Tomorrow I stay home from work, so that is a necessary relaxing day. Work is busy, busy.
Next week: Capstone! Yay! Oh, wait, I am not excited at all. We haven’t been given much information about it except: we are to expect to be at the school from 9-5 (implied that maybe even longer if we’re motivated) Tues through Fri. We’ll be placed in a group of fellow students from different fields and methods (yay group work!) and be given a hypothetical problem. Then with our ingenuity as future social workers and the help of roaming faculty, we are to come up with…something, then submit it. The best get prizes! Woo! Maybe even lunch! Oh my! I wish I had been sick next week.
Filed under School_Work | Comments (4)Frustrating…
Work is frustrating — I am trying to get people to do something they wouldn’t necessarily have any reason to go to (and I ask if they were even asked?), for which they have not so great skills to do… I talked a about it today, and I realized how frustrated I was. Sigh. I guess the harder part is expressing my frustrations to my supervisor/the team when I have been trying to and not succeeding, and now it’s Jan and project ends in a few months. How do I tell them it’s just really a big mess?!
Filed under School_Work | Comments (2)New Year’s
Back to work.
Happy New Year! I haven’t gotten out my traditional “Step by step guide to New Years Resolutions” this year, and I probably won’t. I’ll keep them in my head and do baby steps. Most of all, I resolve to plan a wedding happily! Woo! Positive attitudes are good. I am certainly open to ideas on how to do that.
I’m reading something other than school – gasp! What is the What by Dave Eggers. I like it, you should read it.
With all the people and business combined with laziness of the last few weeks, as EJ said, I should get into a routine. Or at least a balance – yes, that sounds better.
Things to do in the next 2 months:
-Finish a really nice resume
-Practice interviewing with Dylan
-Start classes off well and increase overall confidence! (Maybe there’s a book on that)
-Read at least one more personal book
-Start planning a wedding!
Filed under School_Work, Things to do | Comment (1)This week.
So, week one from hell is over – whew! Although, looking back I don’t feel my papers were quite as good…but it’s the learning process that’s important, right?
Today is EJ’s birthday! My mother would always wake me up on my birthday with this little music box that sang happy birthday – sorry, EJ, I should have made some effort. I tried to get Dylan to sing happy birthday, but ran out of time – perhaps for next year.
Interesting class item: my professor for program evaluation is teaching us how to code surveys, etc., and, naturally, as part of our survey we had, along with age, gender, etc., the “ethnicity” box. He asked us – why have this box? Race is a weak theory at best, and put as many categories as you want on it, but if you analyze the data, it will really just come down to black and white, right? So why have it? Is it to support answers to questions we already think we have (ex: taking data on salaries, did we already make the conclusion that non-whites will make less?). We could probably “prove” that with the statistics, but you can prove everything with statistics – what if the salary information is more based on college/economic background/previous jobs? Anyway, the moral to the story is that, if you make up a survey or the next time you are answering a survey, consider the implications of having the ethnicity/race box, and consider eliminating it, not answering, or other tactic. Because by having it/assuming it’s important, are we just perpetuating assumptions to questions? Hmm.
I’m going to talk with by boss about what I want to be when I grow up. Any suggestions?
Filed under School_Work, Things to do | Comment (1)It’s 2:30am
And one of the last nights of the semester that will warrant these hours. That’s good, but it’s still 2:30 am. I’m working on a paper on expatriates and the services they need to be successful. I think I’d like to help out with that in a big, international company. Sounds like fun, perhaps I’ll look into it.
EJ and I got a Christmas tree yesterday, and it is very cute. It’s a real tree (which reminds me I need to water it!), which is like we had at home - although here we bought it from the guy on the corner and in KC we went to he tree farm and sawed it down ourselves.
It also snowed today, so perfect timing. The top two weirdest snow experiences ever: when an inch layer of ice was on top of 4 inches of snow - my sled wouldn’t go through the ice, so you could ride for ages with just a little hill or push. When it snowed really big flakes for a few hours when I was golfing in high school.
My opinion of the day: social work students are actually really busy.
Filed under School_Work, Things Done | Comment (0)A little bird told me to BLOG dam$%#!
A little bird also told me that I’m getting married! Woo!
EJ and I just got back from Iceland, which was a lot of fun (for now, see facebook for some pictures). I ate Rudolph, and he was good. But before we left, EJ found the time to check (and read) all (yes, all) of my past blog entries from perfecttaco.blogspot.com. 1) Wow, EJ should do more work at work and 2) Sad, I need to blog and 3) My blogs seem to reflect my life, especially work life (duh, but it is interesting).
So here I restart my blogging (not ironic that I do it at the busiest time of year-2 pretty tough 7-page papers due on Tuesday), but that procrastination workshop was really boring, anyway.
1 not so deep thought: I saw a whole box of hamster equipment (ball, box, shavings) out on the sidewalk. Always kinds of sad, because someone’s pet died.
1 social work thought: So, only the good teachers bring this up, and only after you’ve been in school for awhile…But social work, it’s history, even today is a lot about social control. Hmm. Won’t go into depth, but I am thinking about it a lot lately.
Good night for now - here’s a picture of me and EJ. (Why does my head look so fat?)
The second Friday of the week…
…is going very slooooowly. I forget what it is like to be at a computer all day (for those who knew, last school year I did not have a computer at my desk). The cubicle depression is slowly passing, which is good. I have gotten into the habit of jogging during lunch in the nearby park, which is very admirable of me, if I may say so myself. I’ve actually gone 2 times this week and 3 times last week. I’m so unmotivated to do anything, it is even hard to blog, so sad.
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