Monday, July 19, 2010

Currently: I've been going through an emotional rollercoaster at my fieldwork facility. From my dickheaded supervisor saying that it's okay for my fieldwork coordinator to fail me for fieldwork because he won't sign the contract with my school, to my other supervisor telling me that they haven't been very pleased with me thus far...eventhough he KNEW that dickhead has been giving me a hard time from day one! The people at my facility are very hard to please too, and even if I write a note and look it over a million times to make sure I didn't miss anything, they still find SOMETHING to get on me for. Blah. But, as always, I kept what Jon (my other supervisor) had told me on friday in mind and made sure that it showed in my performance today. One of their complaints was that I don't "initiate" things enough and that I like to just kind of sit around and "wait" for them to tell me things with this confused look on my face. SO...today I made sure to find something for myself to do no matter what, and then approach dickhead or Jon whenever I either needed something to do or had a question. I promise, it'll be like this until the end of this fieldwork, cause I just CAN'T afford to fail this fieldwork and have to start allover and complete it again next semester...or even next summer. What's good about this though, is that Jon had also told me that my evaluating and treating skills are just fine and don't need any type of "work"...so that is DEFINITELY one less thing for me to worry about. I really have been enjoying my patients though. My one patient, Mary, is a sweet little Irish woman who always has some sort of advice for me.Haha As a matter of fact, today she was trying to see if she could get me a boyfriend!!HAHA! If only she knew my luck with men...My other patient is a little Korean man named Mr. Kim and he is HILARIOUS! For one, everytime he sees me he feels the need to say "Do the bike!" and then start laughing hysterically.Haha There were a couple of days where he refused to come to therapy, but he has been easy to work with otherwise. Anyways, i'm outie. Another day of no pay awaits me tommorrow!