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I need July to end.

Summer school has been rather hectic. I don’t know why I’m sounding surprised. It was like this last year too. *sigh* I just have one more day to endure and then I’m officially on vacation…at least from this job. I need a manicure.  Hm, that was random.
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I’m looking forward to our short trip to Napa this weekend. It was a last minute trip but it’s going to be a hoot. We’re going wine tasting with the Bangs on Saturday and then having a little BBQ in Marin on Sunday. The featured food item will be oysters…and kalbi and other stuff we can put together. I’m also looking forward to bringing my camera up there and seeing what kind of pictures I come home with. Where is that macro lens when I need it most? Haha.
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Monday is the first day of Camp and I’m looking forward to it but not really. It’s been a bittersweet year since I had no intention of working in August this year until the fateful day when they sucked me back in. It should be fun but I’m just not looking forward to driving 100 miles per day. Jes might have to live the single life for a few days if I decide to stay in Cerritos for two weeks.

stayin’ afloat

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. You can say that I’m in survival mode at this point. Summer school is in full swing with plenty of work to do. Holly’s wedding is this Saturday and I’m running around getting my bridesmaid dress fixed, shopping for shoes, and getting the house ready for guests. Yong, Helen, and Yoon are campin’ out in our little birdhouse and it needs to at least have room to walk in. I’m also busy with Camp stuff. I was supposed to attend an evening orientation meeting in Torrance tomorrow night but it’s the same time as Holly’s rehearsal and dinner. I can’t miss THAT!

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Anyway, just wanted to let you all know that I’m still alive but barely hangin’ on. I woke up this morning with a splitting headache and this nauseating feeling that I usually get when I pull an all-nighter. I got about 7 hours of sleep but it really didn’t feel like it. With a quick snooze on the couch this morning until 8 and a couple Motrins, I was back in action. When is summer-fun going to begin?!

Done, done, and DONE!

I took a sigh of relief this afternoon. I went in to work in the morning, had our end-of-the-year lunch at Islands with my co-workers, and packed up for the week. I got home by 2:00 and now I’m able to clean the house, finish the laundry, and just plain relax. Ah..

Next week, I’ll be driving down to my old stomping grounds, PTN, to work on some camp stuff. It’ll be a nice change from IEPs and reports. I’ll get to hang out with old friends and make a little extra spending money too.

Oh yeah…Yosemite Update: last night I checked the 10-day forecast for Yosemite and so far it looks like 60% showers on the first two days that we’re expected to be there. Uh, guys, I don’t really feel like camping in the rain. Can we find a Plan B?!

I can feel it…

…summer is here and it’s the longest day of the year! The sun is out, the AC is on, our last day of school is tomorrow, and I bought tickets to Hollywood Bowl. Awesome. This month has been really crazy and I’m finally seeing the end of the tunnel. We have graduation tomorrow and then an easy day on Friday. THEN, I’ll have a week and a half off before starting summer school on July 5th. Here are some summer plans so far:

  • Hollywood Bowl on Sunday to see Sergio Mendes et. al
  • Loooooooong roadtrip and camping in Yellowstone.

Perhaps we should reinstate Bonfire Wednesdays again. Anyone want to join us?

There’s nothing like a good beat down…

on a Friday morning. As if my week wasn’t hard enough but this morning at 8 am I had a meeting that topped it all off. I walked in thinking it was going to be rather easy-going but it quickly turned sour. The first inkling of a beat-down was when the mom said something like, “When he starts his new school we’re going to get a real OT…a really good one.” Awesome. This can’t be good.

When it was my turn to speak, before I could get into my report, the mom said, “You don’t need to go through this I already disagree with your recommendation.” She had flipped to the end of the report to see that I was recommending that we discontinue services. Double-awesome.
THEN!! She says to me, “I know you don’t like me and I’ve never liked you so I guess it’s mutual. But it’s not fair to take it out on a child.” WHAM! Beat down! I was pretty speechless. When I finally caught my breath, I calmly replied with, “Wow. (pause) I’ve never had any negative feelings about you.” She then quickly replied with, “Well, then me too!” Huh?

Anyway, I didn’t finish my report and said to the administrator, “I don’t have anything else to say. It’s all in my report.” After the meeting, the teacher, who was sitting next to the mom, said to me, “I had to do everything in my power not to reach over and sock her in the face. That wouldn’t have been very professional of me.” Aw, *sniff* how sweet. So that was how I spent my Friday morning. I hope all of you had a better Friday.

Avert your eyes!

This has been such a busy week at work. We call it “Kindergarten Transition Week”. In other words, no kids come to school because all the grown-ups are too busy gathering around a tiny knee-high table talking about where they should go next year for Kindergarten and how much therapy they will need. Well, as the only therapist at the preschool, my poor intern and I have been driving from school to school, sitting through meeting after meeting, and looking at documents with tiny print until we’re cross-eyed. I can barely remember whose meeting I went to just this morning! Anyway, it’s Wednesday and I have two more days to endure. I didn’t think sitting around all day could be more tiring than chasing kids around but I think it might be.
Things I’ve thought about during my meetings:

  • “I wonder if I could hang our summer jellyfish projects from the clinic ceilings the same way this teacher has: paperclip+string+clothespin…clever.”
  • “99 Ranch, tofu, kimchee, soybean juice, mochi ice cream…mmm…mochi ice cream”
  • “Did I close the garage door this morning?”
  • “This dad looks like the dad in ‘American Pie’.”
  • “I wish I could trade places with Koa right now. I could use a long nap.”
  • “That lady seated across from me is too large to be wearing a denim skirt that tight and short. I wish the table was higher…eew.”