Today was a busier day. This morning instead of school we had a co-op meeting at camp. A group we started back then was sort of starting back up. I had nothing to do with it and wouldn’t have even gone if it hadn’t been here with Dad leading the Matins service. It just seemed like if it was happening here then we should go so we did.

It was actually fairly fun. I gave up with this co-op because when we were doing it before it just started to feel like too much hassle for not enough benefit. There were some fun surges where we had like four or five couples there and could have some good parenting encouragement discussion while the kids played in their various stations.

Which was more what I thrived in but it wasn’t able to last due to various families moving away or dropping out because it wasn’t a good season. And then I felt like my kids were too old and the other family’s kids ages didn’t really match with mine to really accomplish the socialization that the other family was mostly wanting out of the time.

But we kept doing it until I got sick and then that was the end of our involvement. And for a while it’s not like I was bitter but the whole thing had kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Like how much of this was me being selfish and wanting my preferences and needs met too and how much was I supposed to be just accommodating for others?

But anyway it was good. I had to leave early because I had an interview with a potential interview secondary site supervisor. I’ve been patient with the slow start of internship because I honestly haven’t had bandwidth to do more than I was doing. But four weeks in, I know I need to be more aggressive with getting some hours. 5-6ish would be ideal.

That’s still not going to be enough to make the 18 weekly but it will be more than what I’m getting now. This site is called Thrive Center for. He says a big part of what they do has to do with addiction recovery as that is his passion as someone who is 18 years sober. From what, I asked. He said alcohol and basically any and all of the drugs.

So they have a recovery group from 9-12 on Wednesdays and Fridays. I said the Fridays was one of the slots I could do. I would observe a few times but then be expected to participate by contributing thoughts to the group and then eventually co-facilitating the group with him. I would also be expected to take on at least one individual client case.

They also have a group every other Tuesday evenings for doctors and nurses. I said, “Oooo. You for mean for like PTSD??” He said, no, for people who’ve had disciplinary action taken against their license because of addiction. I guess there’s even a heart surgeon in there. He said he thought nursing needed to be officially listed in the DSM.

Because nursing is professional co-dependency. I said okay but there could be healed versions of that. I had to answer a bunch of questions and then he said I could interview him. I didn’t really have that much to ask. So I emailed my professor and requested this as a second site and now I have to wait for approval on whether or not I can do this.

After that there was a little bit of downtime but then we left early so we could walk the course where one of the boys had a meet. LuHigh was hosting a cross country meet on the new property where the new school is hopefully going to be someday. They had four of the local private grade schools and let our son join as an independent runner.

So that was nice. He said his mouth was so dry he thought about asking one of his brothers for water. Laura’s parents were there dropping off a birthday present for the trip my daughter and I are scheduled to take this weekend. They’d never been to a cross country meet before and enjoyed it. I have no idea how to end but I’m done now.