This week has been a better week. Friday Em and Coop-A-Loop came into Chi-Town. Em from Miller Town and Coop from El Forko Grande for an ABA conference. It was really fun! Cooper is just a fantastic guy and I love Em to pieces. So after attempting to find a good place to eat on a Friday night at 730pm with no reservations in Chicago (hehe, yeah right) we went up to this Italian restaurant in Lincoln Park called O Fame. The food is so good! I was there on Thursday night for a birthday party for a friend from school and I had the Antipasto salad. Friday I had the Ravioli. It was awesome. Plus they have this great wine, Piramimma. Expensive but fantastic. Then we went to another bar on Division. Great music but none of us were in the mood for loudness. We tried to get into Jilly's but it was already packed by 930. So we just went to the booze store and came back to my place. I worked Saturday but Em stayed in town and wandered around. Saturday we went for supper at California Pizza Kitchen and then rented Red Eye. Definitely didn't help my fear of flying, haha! But it was a pretty good movie all around. Sunday we went up to Lakeview and wandered around. We ended up stumbling on a DSW shoehouse and a Linen's & Things. I found two pairs of designer shoes, Liz Claiborne and Frank Sarto, for 100 bucks total! Em bought a new pair of shoes, Rocket Dogs, too. I'm definitely going back up there, they had great deals on great shoes!! I also bought a 4 piece set of wine glasses and two candles at Linens & Things. I have champagne glasses my mother gave me but I wanted bigger wine glasses. Then we got on separate trains and Em went back to Milwaukee and I came back here to study. Overall it was a great weekend.
I also had my checkup on my knee on Saturday. Doc says the MRI is fine. No tears or major issues with my knee. He said to keep up with the medication and icing it to bring down the severe inflammation. So that was excellent news! No need for needles at this point or the dreaded surgery word. Just need to stay off it and get it stronger.
I sent my internship packets out on Friday and got my first phone call on Monday! So I have an interview set up on Friday out in Woodstock. This particular placement is an after school cog-behavioral therapy group for juveniles. It addresses thinking errors and reshaping the juveniles thinking patterns for offending. It interests me because I do enjoy working with youth and I think that if any future work with this population would include work like this instead of the hands-on supervising in residential treatments or correctional settings.
I quit my job today too. Had enough with the drama. Boss wasn't too happy about that but I don't care. So I'm living on student loans for awhile until this knee of mine is healed and the internship interviews are past and I have a placement. Its too hard to go to school for 3 days a week, work the other two weekdays and basically have no availability for placement interviews. If my boss was a bit more flexible (she was flexible but she was grudgingly) about things I might have stayed. Then again, the drama was enough to push me over the edge. Plus its shotglasses and t-shirts...not exactly a career maker.
School is going great. I'm a bit behind but I'm not worried about it. I went to court last week too. It was awesome. The TOP forensic psychiatrist was in town testifying for a serial killer's trial. The defendant was claiming insanity. Park Dietz's CV and credentials alone were unbelievable. He has interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer, Eric Robert Rudolph, Andrea Yates. He works with the FBI and the White House and the tv show Law & Order. The guy was just amazing to listen to as well. He couldn't be shaken on the stand and he was incredibly intelligent. Plus he was very amicable; he talked to the jury, not the attorneys or the gallery. I thought that was very appealing. The trial was really interesting and exciting too. Oh and the guy got convicted after only an hour of jury deliberation. It was a really cool experience plus I got one of my major assignments done for my documents and testifying class.
Valentine's Day was just another day for me. I talked to Rumba on the phone for about 2 hours and we just laughed the whole time. It was a really great phone call. He's coming on Friday to Chicago for a week too so we're both really excited for the upcoming visit.
Family is doing good far as I can tell. Parents are stressed out about the move and jobs and such but thats normal. This too shall pass. They are getting the house set up and Dad is settling into his job too. I hope to go home in a few weeks for spring break. If I don't get home, my mom might come here for a few days. I don't care. I just need to get the heck out of the city or have her come her.
Speaking of the city, I'm getting tired of it. I am so close to the action and the craziness that I never really get out of it. I love it, don't get me wrong. But I also hate it too. I'm more of a small town or smaller metropolis kinda gal. I can tolerate it and I'll have to for another year. I guess if I was a bit farther away from it all, I wouldn't feel so crazy.
This week has already been loads better than weeks past. I'm off those stupid steroids and that is a huge help. Its amazing what chemicals can do to your body! I'm also getting a bit more sleep too and that always helps. It was really nice to have my friends here too! Plus I'm excited for Rumba to be here with me.
A happy, healing Tiger
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