Update version 2.0

I got the internship--it is at Catholic Charities, which is a nationwide organization but run locally by regional Catholic leadership. Due to all the abuse scandals and what not, we have to have special training once a year. This semester I'll just be doing a few hours a week there learning the office stuff, but I'll have clients starting with the practicum in January. I've been pretty nervous about it but everyone tells me that I can't possibly mess these people up worse, which is sad but comforting. They work with the lowest of the low in terms of socioeconomic status, which is obviously difficult but inspiring.

N and I finally started watching The Office. I didn't realize how funny it is. It's a little easier to watch TV episodes than a whole movie after LG goes to bed and still get to bed before 11. He has been sleeping a little better lately, but she still gets up to feed him around 4. We got a babysitter today (that's two weeks in a row now!) and we're going out. Dinner and a movie is a lot cooler than it used to be! : )

I started a Flickr page for pictures of things other than LG. I would move his pictures there too if I could figure out how to send photos to Flickr via text message--like Tumblr, because you can't comment on Tumblr.

I also found out that the department I'm in may start a Marriage and Family program the year after I'm done, so it would only take me six more classes to get the extra certification if I stayed a year. I probably won't decide on that for quite a while though. So many degrees, so little time. I think if there were a degree in Everything, I would apply.

Cheesecakes and Dijeridus

-Got a new electric toothbrush that rattles my brain a little. I had not been to the dentist in almost five years, and he commanded me to get one. Only one cavity though.
-Applied for a counseling internship. I could be seeing clients in January. Scary (for them and for me).
-Went to Seattle with my parents.
-Went to concert at the Showbox: saw Guster and ”wonky pop” Tally Hall and some guy from The Shins. It was our first date in about a month. We pretended we were young (read: able to go wherever we want) again. LG was fine for about 30 minutes after we left but cried his little eyes out for 30 minutes after that (once he realized his parents were gone). To N’s credit, she worried about him. When you’re used to going out all the time but haven’t for over a month it really feels good. It’s a good thing he’s cute! Guster is one of our favorite bands. I had never heard Tally Hall before but they’re entertaining.
-Went to iTunes and bought the Tally Hall song “Banana Man”. The guy from The Shins sang with Guster and played the banjo. He was also in a band called The Fruitbats.
-Learned from Guster that modern Rock and Roll “didn’t start with the electric guitar or the dijeridu, but the cowbell.”
-Also went to the Cheesecake Factory for some delicious lemon raspberry cheesecake. It was delicious.
-Got some new shoes.

Hoops

This whole substituting thing N was supposed to start has been quite a pain. There have been so many tediously long applications to fill out, résumés to send in, recommendation letters to request, fingerprints (all ten) to be taken, etc. etc. In Utah they must desperately need subs because I think all they require is a high school diploma and a contract saying you won’t seduce any of the kids.

A lawyer friend of mine once said when he was applying to a state bar, they wanted to know the addresses of every place he had lived for the past 20 years. What is the point of all this? Sometimes I think Bureaucrats make up extra hoops to jump through just so they feel like they’re doing something. I know “there is always a reason for a rule”—someone at some time did something that required a new law—but when was there ever a substitute teacher who only submitted TWO letters of recommendation instead of the standard three, and turned out to be a psychopath? When has there ever been a lawyer admitted to the bar who only turned in former addresses of the past 10 years, and it later became known that fifteen years ago they were chummy with the Unabomber?

I'm confused (read: ?)

I've been trying to figure out what exatly it means when someone writes "(read:_____)". Does anyone know? I can't find an explanation anywhere online. Also, WHY is it used? Is it "proper", or just slang? Here's an example: "...the purpose of this kind of wild character analysis was to establish a psychogenic or functional cause (read: explanation) for Parkinson's disease..." To me it seems like the writer is trying to better define 'functional cause'. Why didn't they just write 'explanation' in the first place (if that indeed was the purpse)?

School starts tomorrow! And other things...

Finally things are starting up with the sure-to-be smash hit "issues and ethics" class! I've been waiting for so long for class to start I think I'd go to a class in the history cross stiching if it was available. No offence to cross-stitchers.

My 2 bits on Senator Craig -- 1st bit: Why are cops going undercover to catch latently gay men in bathrooms? Is this a problem? If it is, then see the 2nd bit. 2nd bit: Why the heck are these guys choosing dirty airport bathrooms? Are there not better (and cleaner) places for this?