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there's a cat on my head.

My orange cat is on my head right now. NOT impressed. Oh well. So, big revelation of the week. I need to SLOW DOWN! Yesterday I came into the office and got right down to business. Things with the student and with new staff had left me kind of overwhelmed...

Published 30 Sep 2009 4:13 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: counseling, paperwork, pet peeves, social work, student, work
busy bee

I interacted with 14 client files today. I cannot tell you how much I hate that expression. Read More...

Published 29 Sep 2009 4:15 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: paperwork, pet peeves, whining, work
decisions, decisions.

My thought for today is that I either need to go back to Yoga or back to therapy. Maybe both. I'm not making a decision till after my holiday though. stay tuned tomorrow for why I'm pissed off about the material I learned in my food handlers course...

Published 23 Sep 2009 3:39 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: attitudes, counseling, homelessness, me, pet peeves, yoga
rant around the clock

I'm having an issue at work that I'm kind of getting sick of. My clients seem to have a VERY difficult time keeping their appointments. Now, I don't mind the occasional missed appointment that was forgotten about, and I of course don't...

Published 13 Aug 2009 1:39 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: counseling, mental health, pet peeves, thoughts, whining, work
I'm wearing a dress...

I'm off to a fundraiser for work right away. Label me not impressed but going to make the best of it (rant to follow). At least there's decent silent auction prizes. (rant begins now). See the thing of it is, I had to buy a ticket to the stupid...

Published 4 Jun 2009 11:48 PM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: m, pet peeves, whining, work
Staff Meetings...

We had a staff meeting yesterday. All the staff in our organization. I can't say I was impressed. I am NOT good at sitting still for 2.5 hours listening to stuff that is mostly irelevant to me. Then our executive director was all like "how come...

Published 21 May 2009 1:32 PM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: pet peeves, staff relations, the intrepid one, whining, work
Fire Yoga

The next person who says to me "well, isn't yoga just like stretching or something" is going to get a smack (at least inside my head). If yoga was "just like stretching or something" I wouldn't have such sore arm muscles right...

Published 29 Apr 2009 3:20 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Social Worker (with a little help from her Sophie Cat)

Filed under: life, me, pet peeves, thoughts, yoga
standing up for yourself

Something I've been trying to encourage my clients to do lately is to speak out. It seems like every day I'm hearing another story of injustice, and the abuse of my clients. It bugs me, and while I can, and do, speak out about it, I think they...

Published 14 Mar 2009 9:23 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a (not quite) Brand New Social Worker

Filed under: attitudes, homelessness, pet peeves, social work, thoughts
when bennie won't bathe

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Published 12 Dec 2008 4:45 PM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Brand New Social Worker

Filed under: attitudes, ethics, IPDA, necessary evils, pet peeves, the enforcer, thoughts, work
non sensical ramblings about homelessness (part 6)

It's interesting not being in school. I no longer am forced to really examine my thoughts, feelings and biases about things on a regular basis. In some ways that feels really nice, but in other ways I feel like I'm kind of losing out. I've...

Published 28 Nov 2008 2:16 PM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Brand New Social Worker

Filed under: attitudes, homelessness, pet peeves, policy, shelter, social work, substance use, thoughts, work
feeling safe

We're trying really hard this month to help people find accommodations outside of the shelter system. We've been filling up every single night and turning away more and more people as the weather gets colder. What's the problem? People don't...

Published 13 Nov 2008 8:22 PM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Brand New Social Worker

Filed under: attitudes, homelessness, pet peeves, substance use, thoughts
oh to be a social worker

I am SO sick of the staff at work hating me because I'm a social worker and trying to convince me that I'm horrible because of it. YES, I am a young, white, female social worker! I accept that! But, that's the way things are, and it's...

Published 8 Oct 2008 7:49 AM by Awake and Dreaming - The Ramblings of a Brand New Social Worker

Filed under: attitudes, homelessness, pet peeves, social work, staff relations, substance use, thoughts, work

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