And I shall Beep the 'Fistas once I hear from Trudy.

...okay, who's tried to kick their own ass after reading this? Be honest.

I honestly would have tried if I had any Flexeril in the house.

Glad there's a plan in effect! We'll be thinking of you, Trudy.

So you know how sometimes you have people coming over, and then it gets cancelled, so you stop cleaning your house. And then someone else is coming over so you start cleaning again, but then you conclude that you can't get it all done and decide that you just need to cut bait and leave the master bedroom and bath and studio dirty, because really, you just need the rooms that people will be in. And then you get a text saying that both your dinner guests and your cook (your husband) are going to be an hour later than expected?

I'm at that point. So I did tidy up the studio, because it's visible from the main rooms. But now I have enough time to also clean the master bedroom and bathroom, when I actually thought I was already done.

Re: hemorrhoids and dibucaine - one tip I learned from the maternity ward nurses is to apply the cream to a maxi pad and then let it soak into the affected area, rather than rubbing directly into the (already sore and irritated) skin.

smonster, thanks!

I am SO SO GLAD I got the script for Xanax today, though; we are worried here about the proposed govt shitdown, and we also had a huge HUGE money expense thing happen today, related to all that foreclosure-getting-out-of business that went down this summer. Like, $3200 by tomorrow bad.

I was able to not melt down into a puddle of FUCK NO KILL ME NOW, which was what would have happened if I had NOT gone to the doctor today.

Today has been the Monday bookended by shit in the morning and shit in the evening. All on 2 hours of shit sleep last night, and 3 hours of sleep Sat. night.

DIE MONDAY DIE.

::sigh:: So on Friday we gave an optional "explore a career path" essay to the trainees to make up some time lost to rain. Only two people turned anything in. One is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, and shows evidence of some research.

The other is hand-copied from two different websites. Very, VERY obviously. And there's no segue, or any kind of "I want to do this and this is the education I would need," or anything. Just a bunch of crap from a business plan consultants webpage (he wrote the name of the company at the top, and everything! helloooo?!?) and a bunch of crap from a site about what business majors can do.

::sigh:: Further complicating matters is the fact that this trainee seems to have some mental limitations, possibly resulting from a head injury? Plagiarizing doesn't seem like his style; he's very eager to please and forthright. IDK. I guess we'll talk to him about it tomorrow and see if he cops to it, or find out how he understood the assignment. And depending on his answers, maybe give him an hour (out of a potential four).

{{{Erin}}}

Smonster, good luck with that.

Teppy, feel better.

Tea:

Trudy, tons of surgery~ma for you.

Tomorrow I have an intake appointment with a dietician, Wednesday my first PT appointment, and Thursday the follow up with the hematologist. I'm working on not going into complete panic mode.

smonster, depending on his education background, he may NOT have been taught very well how to write. And sometimes plagiarism is not as well taught as you might assume.

Esp. if he has had TBI, it very well may be that he simply thought you wanted him to present you with simple info.

Writing skills are one of the hardest things to teach, and well-meaning kids have turned in stuff that was paraphrased, but not cited, HUGE quotes unconnected by transitions or much original writing, etc. I've learned to give assessments of what kids think plagiarism is before teaching it, because until they are taught, they think they have done a good research job by simply presenting info back to you: "I looked some stuff up; here is what I found, YAY ME, assignment done."

It's not just quotes. It's 100% copied, word for word.

I'll start by asking him to explain how he understood the assignment, and see what he says. Unfortunately I was unable to give them a printout of the assignment, and just went over what I wanted verbally. I recognize that there's a possibility he misunderstood, or remembered wrong later, or something.

Bipolar, I can deal. ADHD, I can deal somewhat. TBI? No fricking clue.

That's a good strategy, smonster. I am hardly an expert, but I've worked with two students with TBI -- here's some decent info on it: [link]