So I accepted a job within Lubbock Independent School District’s administration department. I had to get fingerprinted for it today, an experience that I never enjoy. While I typically keep my illicit activities to a minimum, I still don’t like the idea that my digitalized digits are out there on databases for all to see. Call me paranoid. Funny thing is, I unexpectedly received a counter-offer from my current job at the detox center. What more, the quite swanky private rehab center (the Betty Ford Center of West Texas, if you will) extended an open-ended offer for employment anytime I choose to claim it without me even submitting an application. The temptation is near-overwhelming; however I believe I need something less extreme while I finish my educational goals. Yay mediocrity!

The mental health fraternity in this region seems quite small. I keep on running into the same people - doctors, patients, therapists, etc. I’m glad I’ve made a quasi-good impression.

I’m starting to train to be a roller derby girl. Responses on this have ranged from hysterical laughter, general skepticism, pointing out my inability to go a week without falling down while just walking, and long periods of silence followed by statements of “…you’re small” or the less subtle, heartfelt “…you’re going to get your ass kicked.” My more supportive of friends have started thinking up double entendre names and some have gone so far as to agree to try to knock me down while I attempt to skate (thanks, jane). The league itself has an open-skate every Sunday for noobs. I will be there. Hopefully in a couple of months, I can attend the non-noob practice:

And then, hopefully, I can make prettier youtube videos for the league.

Yep. Two+ years of kicking ass at the mental institution has to pay off in other ways besides scoring me a career job.