Today was my longer day at the Thrive Center. I’m still not talking that much in group and honestly don’t feel that bad about it. I don’t really feel the need to talk and the things I say are said during break when we get a chance to interact more with the attendees. This morning we watched a video called American Addict which talked about all the ways the government is shadily influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

There’s a woman from group I’ve been meeting with individually. I only chart group hours as direct hours if I talk. I’ve already my quota for group through contact so I don’t need the group hours but any direct ones still help. Any hours still help. I had fifteen total this week which I didn’t think was too bad. The new student and I exchanged numbers so we can arrange to go to a local AA meeting together sometime.

After I came home I made a sandwich but couldn’t eat. Ethan had a race around 3:10PM and he was really hoping to do well to get a possible spot on the conference 4×800 team. There were six Concordia guys and he was seeded as the slowest. He ended up getting second in the team group. I was so happy. I feel like we all need those little successes along the way so I was very thankful for him to have that. I knew he could.