Staff Meetings...

We had a staff meeting yesterday.  All the staff in our organization.  I can't say I was impressed.  I am NOT good at sitting still for 2.5 hours listening to stuff that is mostly irelevant to me.  Then our executive director was all like "how come the employment people are so quiet".  And well, it's because we simply didn't have anything to say!  The meeting was almost entirely about our residential program which we have very limited contact with.  

On the other hand, the staff for my program has a staff meeting once a week.  It's quick, to the point, and relevant.  I also find them fun.  I look forward to them even.  I know that if I'm having problems or there's something going wrong, I can bring it up at the staff meeting.  We often have food or something.  For example, today there will be skittles.  

Then, every other week we have a client meeting at which we review the status and activities of each and every person in our program.  It is a seriously great way to collect help and suggestions and I great way to make sure that none of our clients are being forgotten about.  So really, it's just the all staff meeting's that I hate... but still, how I hate them.  

On another note, having a boyfriend is time consuming.  The intrepid one came over to watch the next disk of Friends last night.  It was awesome, but it took my whole evening... 

dreamer finds a boy (oh wait, I'm supposed to call him a "man")

You may have been wondering what happeneded to the dreamer over the past couple weeks.  Where have her deeply insightful and thought provoking posts gone?  Well, there is a simple answer, as happens to many of us, the dreamer has found herself a boyfriend who from now on will be referred to simply at "the intrepid one".  He got that name when we were 13 and it's stuck.  So yes, instead of lying on my couch blogging, I've actually been getting out of my house and seeing movies, and eating ice cream.  Although yesterday, we sat on the couch together and watched 8 or so episodes of Friends.  

Things seem to be going well these days.  I have yet another set of antibiotics for the never ending sinus infectiong, but I'm trying to be really diligant about taking care of myself so that maybe this time it'll finally go away!  

Work is going well.  My case load still really isn't picking up that much, but it's summer, and apparently that's what happens.  I've been doing quite a few intake interviews though, which is nice, I LOVE learning people's stories.  

Church is good as well.  And I'm seeing my spiritual director again on Tuesday.  

Sophie Cat is doing well.  She really seems to like the intrepid one, which is good, because it's vital that the two of them get along.  Yesterday she kept a very close eye on him...it was kind of creepy actually.  I think she senses something is up because she doesn't stare at bestest buds boyfriend the same way.  Currently she's sticking her paw in her water dish and licking the water off her paw... she doesn't like to drink the normal way.  

So hopefully more social work posts shall follow soon.  I'm off to get my morning coffee before I go into major caffienne withdrawl.