I have been meaning to get to the office supply store for a few weeks, but hadn't actually gone until last night. Woohoo! Did I score a deal! I've had my eye on a 2 drawer lateral file cabinet. Last time I was in the store and looked at 'em, the ones I want were priced between $300 and $400. Last night I wandered back to the file cabinets just for fun and lo and behold, there was a nice one on clearance sale for $198! I got some assistance from a couple of the sales folks, who verified the price and looked up the availability. That display model was the last in stock, and it has a couple of scuff marks on it here and there, so the one guy said he'd knock 10% off the price. Way cool. Even cooler is that I had a coupon for $10 off of my purchase of $50 or more. That certainly qualified. I also got 5 reams of copy paper, two different pads of graph paper (engineer's computation paper and buff-colored quad paper) and my favorite brand of mechanical pencils (Paper Mate Clear Point, 0.5mm.). Oh, and more ink for my printer. Ink is expensive! I spent over $50 on ink alone.
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I'm mad at rice. You see, I never really liked rice very much until a couple of years ago when I discovered Jasmine rice. That stuff actually tastes good! So recently I've been enjoying Jasmine rice. Silly me, I assumed rice had something going for it, like nutrients and stuff. I know it's a starch, but I thought it had a bit of protein, maybe some vitamins and/or minerals. I looked it up. Nuthin'. Not even dietary fiber! Just carbohydrate calories. Well shit!
I have also reduced my meat consumption. I now try to steer clear of mammals. Poultry, fish, eggs and dairy are still part of the diet. Along with chocolate, sugar, grains, etc. It would be nice if I actually liked vegetables. There are a few veggies I'll eat, but I really need to figure out how to eat more vegetables, and in a more healthy form than the carrots in that carrot cake I had for my birthday a couple of weeks ago.
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Sproing comes home on a weekend pass this weekend. I'll drive up to get him in a few hours. We take him back and have a family session with his therapist at 1:00 Sunday afternoon. He is doing very well. He'll probably come home to stay maybe next month or the month after.
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Diva had her first session with a new therapist Monday. We switched her to a new office, one that is part of the state mental health system. This will make it easier to coordinate her treatment. But what I came to tell you is that she and Superman met the therapist. Diva told the therapist that sometimes Herman tells her what to do. Sometimes Herman tells her to do things that she knows aren't right, but she does them because Herman says they are fun. She also said that not everyone can see Herman.
Superman was surprised. This is the first he's heard of Herman. I heard her refer to Herman a couple of weeks ago, but assumed he's some kind of imaginary friend. Which he probably is. I mentioned it to my therapist and she said the child is jerking everyone's chain. Whatever, and good for her. If this new therapist thinks the child has visual and auditory hallucinations, that will speed the process of placing her in an alternative environment. The child, though not schizophrenic, is crazy.
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I'm supposed to go to my Friday class in an hour, but I'm staying home. It's rainy, cold, and nasty out there. The class is supposed to hear reports from a few of its members about the places where they are volunteering. It's a "field placement" class, and I'm supposed to be spending 2-3 hours a week volunteering in some service organization. I haven't started yet. Though I talked to my therapist yesterday and she suggested a place that would be perfect for me. She's supposed to call there with a recommendation or something. I need to follow up on that, 'cause time's a wastin'.
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Took the first test in Death and Dying yesterday. I feel very good about it. I actually studied! Studied like I didn't for the Social Psych exam from last week. Oh, my therapist says I should drop the Social Psych class because Social Psychology is a bunch of made-up bullshit. I have challenged myself to bring up the grade, though. And the rest of the book looks more interesting than the first two chapters (intro and history), so maybe I can actually do this shit.
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My new lateral file cabinet is sitting in the middle of the foyer waiting for me to make room for it in my office. I have been meaning to rearrange this office for a couple of months, but now that I have the new file cabinet (and it locks!) I'm very motivated to do that. Which is why I'm ending this missive here, so I can do that very thing.
