I know I've neglected this blog in the past week, and I have no good excuse except for the fact that I was working (IE: procrastinating) on my film analysis. Of course there are other bits and pieces in life that I won't bore you with now (but probably will later).
No news too exciting in the life of Alex - the eye doctors told me the same thing - your retina's detached and the only thing we can do is place silicone oil to support it, but there's a squillion reasons why we shouldn't, so see you again in a week. Argh.
Oh, and speaking of my eye doc visit, I got another one of those lovely unsolicited counselling sessions. How? Well imagine this scenario:
My eye doctors are standing in front of me, one is a resident and one an attending, both are named Dr. Leonard and are very tall (but are apparently not related). Anyways, they tell me all of this eyeball information, and then suddenly Dr. Leonard (attending) says to Dr. Leonard (resident):
"You know, she has depression"
Dr. Leonard resident says "Oh...."
Then Dr. leonard attending says to me "Do you know about Winston Churchill? He was clinically depressed".
Wow, thanks! That totally changed my life, now I can do anything! YAY!
Yeah no.
Anyways, that is that. Oh, academic wise it's been a bit of a shitnic this week. I have to retake all the courses I took in the fall. I was under the impression that I'd get credit for at least one class, but sadly that won't be so. They will be talking to the registrars office to get that D- off my transcripts (it hurts my soul to look at it). Oh well, as they say in finding Nemo, just keep swimmin'.
You may be wondering why I titled this blog entry "new directions". No it is not a Glee reference (though I am a fan), I didn't have any major epiphanies about life in the past week, and I'm not moving to an eco village.
I love writing this blog, and I love writing in general. For these past months I've focused on my various "issues", and now I finally want to focus on more than that. I am going into social work, which is a very emotionally challenging career. I want to document my journey of going from a client/patient role to the worker role. I want to be able to share all that I have learned from my experiences and connect with the people work with. I want to figure out how to apply all the lessons I've learned from fuckedupedness.
So I am going to try to relate this blog to my social work practice. Of course I won't be giving away information that could threaten the confidentiality of any people that I work with, but I want to discuss the thoughts and feelings that arise for me as I explore this field. I want to do this for so many reasons. The main reason is to give myself a chance to reflect upon where I've come from, what I'm doing now, and what I want to become. I need to be aware of all that comes up, especially since I'll be doing a reflection type piece at the end of my practicum. I never want to forget where I have been. And of course, I wouldn't want to forget about my adoring fans!
Haha. Anyways, I'm going to sign off, but just consider this shift. I'm excited.
Peace, Love and Veggies,
Alex
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