Posted by: Becca on: March 10, 2009
Excerpt from work email: (Names removed)
“(Person) was just released from (psychiatric hospital) and is quite psychotic/aggressive. (Manager) felt you would be best to work with him since you are most experienced and good at what you do!”
Awesome.
Posted by: Becca on: February 25, 2009
It’s been a good night. Enchilada casserole, cake batter and wine (for me) with Nat while watching Beethoven’s 5th…just nice…
but then I get overwhelmed, tired, there are a million things to do and I just want to sleep but then I’m afraid the things will never get done…I just have good, organized, productive times followed [...]
Posted by: Becca on: February 7, 2009
I want to remember everything about it. That first 10 months or so. I wonder if what happened the 11th month changed everything and then I wonder how it couldn’t. And then there was starting my “real” job at that same time. It’s hard to know what did what (graduate college, have a baby, completely [...]
Posted by: Becca on: February 3, 2009
I’ve been told that I’m easy to talk to and confide in, and I’m not kidding you, today a girl I never before met talked to me for an hour on the sidewalk in front of the library. Told me why her husband is in jail right now, why he has been before, why she’s [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 30, 2009
I am making myself write and not go to sleep yet. I have paperwork to do too. *sigh* Always. I’m feeling better about the job, but it’s the kind of job that permeates your life. I don’t know why I thought working in mental health would be the kind of job that didn’t. It’s not [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 22, 2009
I”m frustrated with myself right now. I don’t really like blogging like this, but I think it’s better than not doing anything with it. My journal is in my bedroom, where my husband is sleeping and my handwriting gets sloppy and the words….whatever.
So, I’m frustrated. I think there’s this one thing that is everything. I [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 20, 2009
I decided two things I am focusing on this year.
One is inspired by a line from a poem I wrote: “stop biting your tongue at all the wrong times/you’re the only one that has to live your life.”
I am a peacemaker. I am a compromiser. I have played that role as long as I can [...]
Posted by: Becca on: January 13, 2009
I wrote this poem,” Debris” and it came back to me today, in a moment I was sitting in my car, and I was thinking this, today, is what “Debris” is about.
I’ve been off all day, making wrong turns in familiar areas, mind clouded and slow, irritated by music ( literally turned the radio on [...]
Posted by: Becca on: December 10, 2008
What to eat when you get home from school at night and have nothing meal worthy that doesn’t require way too much effort? Wine and cheese! Now, before you get an impression of me that may not be accurate, you should know this is twist top wine ($4.49 stuff again) and good old Food Lion [...]
Posted by: Becca on: November 13, 2008
You are just as taken care of as you always were. That has not changed. God is no smaller just because you got bigger.
You don’t have to feel stress about _ you can not feel stress about _, you have that option. Stress about _ has been weakening you. Choose. You choose. Always exercise your [...]
