My memory still sucks
Sep. 1st, 2004 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sugarplumkittyI missed my shrink appointment today. I thought it was next week. Grrrr! I really needed to talk to him about ramping completely off meds and about the decision regarding Jon. Eric's shrink would probably be better for the decision counseling anyway since he's an ADD specialist, but that's another $50.00 penalty I can't afford. I've now started up my MS Office scheduler with reminders.
Tomorrow morning I have an interview with the Special Ed director at Moreland school district. I can't remember if I mentioned this, but I emailed the HR lady on Monday. She told me at the end of the oral test to expect to be called back for the interview by the end of the week. Of course, that was before I told them what I'd heard about one of their existing aides. In the email, I thanked her for her time and told her since I hadn't heard from her I was guessing that my telling them about an unsubstantiated rumor had created a bad impression. I acknowleged that I was uncomfortable with revealing what I'd heard mostly because I don't normally engage in gossip. The fact that the safety of children was involved overrode that. If it meant I wasn't in the running for their aide positions, then that was all right. The well-being of the children was more important to me.
Two hours later she called me and scheduled the interview. She said they'd been swamped with school opening this week and hadn't had time for interviews. :)
On Monday, Braticus seemed lethargic. Since I don't know how old he is, it worried me. I thought I was going to have to take him to the vet. His cage was way overdue for cleaning and he tends to sleep in his own pee so he was gross! I decided since it was a nice warm day that both he and the cage were going to get cleaned up. I cleaned the cage first, letting him hide his treasures in an empty diet pepsi 12 pack box I gave him to hide in while his cage was gone. Instead, he wedged himself between my speaker and monitor and crashed. Once his cage was clean and the top part was drying in the sun, I put three inches of warm water in the bathroom sink and gave him his first bath. He wasn't impressed. He kept climbing my arms to get out. As a result, I only shampooed him once with small animal shampoo. He's still a little greasy near his skin. Even though I rinsed him as much as he'd let me, he stinks of the shampoo scent. I'm going to pick up some baby shampoo to use on him. It's supposed to get hot again this weekend. I wrapped him in a hand towel and took him out to his cage in the sun. He didn't like being exposed so I put the hand towel over his favorite corner. We stayed outside until he was mostly dry. He was curious about the lawn at the bottom of his cage but seemed afraid to explore it.
He perked up yesterday and is his usual silly self again. Maybe he just felt too dirty before. I thought rats were self cleaning. Apparently they're not. He only keeps his hands and face clean. That's why I've always been a cat person! LOL
Scary thing on the news tonight. Some guy in a black mercedes was shot and killed yesterday on the freeway I take to Sausalito. They don't think it was a sniper, but they really don't know yet. They said they think it might have been a case of road rage. They found a firearm in the center divide. It happened where the average speed is 80 MPH - posted speed limit is 65. There are always people weaving in and out of traffic in that section going 90 to 100 MPH. There are always people who are control freaks, clueless or talking on their cell phones in the far left lane going 65 MPH. I wonder which group that man was in?
** note to self: Stay out of the way of hotshots on the freeway. **
Gotta shop before Eric gets home! off I go!
Tomorrow morning I have an interview with the Special Ed director at Moreland school district. I can't remember if I mentioned this, but I emailed the HR lady on Monday. She told me at the end of the oral test to expect to be called back for the interview by the end of the week. Of course, that was before I told them what I'd heard about one of their existing aides. In the email, I thanked her for her time and told her since I hadn't heard from her I was guessing that my telling them about an unsubstantiated rumor had created a bad impression. I acknowleged that I was uncomfortable with revealing what I'd heard mostly because I don't normally engage in gossip. The fact that the safety of children was involved overrode that. If it meant I wasn't in the running for their aide positions, then that was all right. The well-being of the children was more important to me.
Two hours later she called me and scheduled the interview. She said they'd been swamped with school opening this week and hadn't had time for interviews. :)
On Monday, Braticus seemed lethargic. Since I don't know how old he is, it worried me. I thought I was going to have to take him to the vet. His cage was way overdue for cleaning and he tends to sleep in his own pee so he was gross! I decided since it was a nice warm day that both he and the cage were going to get cleaned up. I cleaned the cage first, letting him hide his treasures in an empty diet pepsi 12 pack box I gave him to hide in while his cage was gone. Instead, he wedged himself between my speaker and monitor and crashed. Once his cage was clean and the top part was drying in the sun, I put three inches of warm water in the bathroom sink and gave him his first bath. He wasn't impressed. He kept climbing my arms to get out. As a result, I only shampooed him once with small animal shampoo. He's still a little greasy near his skin. Even though I rinsed him as much as he'd let me, he stinks of the shampoo scent. I'm going to pick up some baby shampoo to use on him. It's supposed to get hot again this weekend. I wrapped him in a hand towel and took him out to his cage in the sun. He didn't like being exposed so I put the hand towel over his favorite corner. We stayed outside until he was mostly dry. He was curious about the lawn at the bottom of his cage but seemed afraid to explore it.
He perked up yesterday and is his usual silly self again. Maybe he just felt too dirty before. I thought rats were self cleaning. Apparently they're not. He only keeps his hands and face clean. That's why I've always been a cat person! LOL
Scary thing on the news tonight. Some guy in a black mercedes was shot and killed yesterday on the freeway I take to Sausalito. They don't think it was a sniper, but they really don't know yet. They said they think it might have been a case of road rage. They found a firearm in the center divide. It happened where the average speed is 80 MPH - posted speed limit is 65. There are always people weaving in and out of traffic in that section going 90 to 100 MPH. There are always people who are control freaks, clueless or talking on their cell phones in the far left lane going 65 MPH. I wonder which group that man was in?
** note to self: Stay out of the way of hotshots on the freeway. **
Gotta shop before Eric gets home! off I go!
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Date: 2004-09-02 11:57 am (UTC)B.raticus. I've always liked the entries you make about him. I didn't knew that a rat didn't clean himself. But than again, rats are associated with dirt.
Be careful out there ok? That's scary news.
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 12:06 pm (UTC):o)
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:08 pm (UTC)If anything happened to me,
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Date: 2004-09-02 12:11 pm (UTC)ok, but you still can keep going on with posting things. :o)
I sometimes think about, when a person from lj would get killed in some way, would i ever find out? It depends on who the person is i guess. But i once had a person in my friendslist. he was depressed and talked about suicide. Than suddenly he never updated anymore.. it gives you a lot of questions about what happened, i can tell you that.
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Date: 2004-09-05 11:39 pm (UTC)I'm glad though she's still updating.