Word of the Day: ginormous
It's both gigantic and enormous, I like the word. It's newly added to the dictionary along with "smackdowns" "crunk" while the linguistic conservatives didn't think those new words having a promise to stick around in American vocabulary. Trendy.
New News to continue my SKILLZ being a Sexual Assault Counselor:
A judge rules that witnesses in a sex assault trial can't use certain words on the stand, like “sex assault” and “rape” from cnn news.com
Next week Tuesday I'll go and get myself started as an counselor, updating and outreaching the community. I heard others in my training group already met the survivors in the ER, being there with them through the rape kit, met with their family, etc. I can't imagine if I'm "ready" but I'm trained to be ready to help.
I'm on campus, surfing the net and having some coffee. Jax is at camp. I'm also waiting to hear from financial aid person to see if I have some money left from the loan to buy myself books. I totally forgot to have it prepared, I didn't have to buy a book for Summer 1 class: Medical Ethics. Btw, I made an A minus for that class. Right now I'm taking this class, Adulthood and Old Age. The most neglected subject (Adulthood) since Freud said in the 1970s that everybody is done growing and developing when you reached 25, married with kids and working. Which is not true for today in America, many of us cannot imagine to get married in 20s and have kids. We have large older people populations (baby boomers) and we don't want to take care of them. We have ginormous stress to be independent and successful. I'm not sure if I'm soo motivated about this class but it's requirement for Social Work major. They're kinda pushing it that most Social Workers will work with the elders and their needs, I'm not sure about that for myself but at least I have some knowledge. Anyway, two textbooks for Adulthood class will costs me $140. Wtf.
So last Monday, Jax and I met with Shannon and her daughters for her to babysit while I go to night class. Shannon and I found each others on craigslist.com couple of months ago, we actually emailed each others and got to know each others a little bit but she lived couple of towns away we thought too far to meet up. Now she moved to the next town so we went for it. I couldn't believe I've done this again, last September we found Jessica from craigslist but we also saw her flyer everywhere in Salem. Now Shannon, she knew what to do and gave me references, also she was a law student so she had some paperwork prepared. I think it's working out ok, I was shocked to pick Jax up after class that he was sound asleep! He's going there again tonight, Shannon only costs me $25 a night. Very reasonable but I'm thinking to give her $70 a week.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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2 comments:
Ginormous! Love that word too!
Wow looks like you'll experience all the survivor in ER...nothing like you experience at the crazy place, eh? *wicked grins*
Happy to know Jax was already sound asleep when you picked him up, looks like the babysitter works out for you? Smiles.
Nice to see you here on your blog once again!
Hugs
heh that would be interesting to be workign with those people for sure indeed!
miss ya xoxo summer not same without ya babe xo
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