Yay Elle.
I don't wake up at 7 am for just anyone but Elle is back in town and my day is packed so all we can work out is a breakfast date then I will wake up early. Emmet (who was shocked to see me awake) just told me that not only am I awake but I am full of energy- I swear it's not the uppers :)
It's been a productive and busy few days- of course that is if you count going to the gym, laundry and checking out Sarah's work as events (which I do). I am hopefully getting my first patient (for real this time!- i think) set up today. It will be part of my externship for next year. I worked it out with my supervisor at work and the director of clinical training and I think it is going to be a great first year externship- one individual psychotherapy patient, intakes and co-leading a group in child outpatient psych. I am still working on getting my research assistantship figured out- I think the school isn't really motivated to get that set up until the fall anyway. I won't be going away this summer because I am starting weekly externship training and this patient as soon as I finish my helpline training (only one session left - woo hoo. Sitting in sessions with HP (hyper participater) is getting harder and harder to take. I think I will go on the mind body spirit retreat in Costa Rica in between semesters. I will likely need it then a lot more than I do now. For now I am really packing my weekends with mini-trips and fun stuff. Last weekend was camping and rafting, this weekend is houseparty at my parent's empty house and then the beach with Joan and Bobby, next weekend I'm going to Baltimore to see Juliet, Lois, Seymour and the rest of the gang. I am also really trying to see all of my friends and do fun things in the evenings before school starts and I get too busy- that combined with the swimming and gym is making this summer great and I don't really feel the need to get away. I will have a travel packed Sept with Lilah's wedding in LA and the presentation in Austin. I also know that I am going to Israel in November so that combined with Costa Rica in Jan and possibly Israel in October and full family vacay to Colorado next summer should give me enough traveling for the year- especially since I am likely to get in a couple of other long weekends in LA. I'm happy to spend time this summer getting set up for next year and finishing up the film and planning the premiere- at this point I don't have anything in my life that I feel I need to get away from. I also know that I can always take a couple of days and go to Aunt Karen's beach house- which I really should be planning on doing.
On tuesday night Sanjay asked me how much I would spend to be 25 again (but be who I am now) and after I thought about it I realized that I would rather take that money and travel- I mean sure it would be nice to be this grounded, secure, confident and directed 6 years ago but I am here now and that is really enough for me. What would I get? A few more years of knowing myself and liking myself- I will have another 50 to 60 years of it. that is plenty. Sarah and I were saying yesterday that we feel bad for our past selves who got hung up on these boys that we now recognize are losers but we are so happy with our lives now that the years that we spent not knowing our worth aren't really that significant. I thought about it last night and I wouldn't trade my past if it got me where I am now. I am not ashamed of anything I have done or who I have been because I worked really hard to be who I am now and pulled myself out of a few bogs that seemed to be quicksand- knowing that I have done that and I can do that again; knowing my own strength- makes it all worthwhile.
ooh gotta run to meet elle- more to come
It's been a productive and busy few days- of course that is if you count going to the gym, laundry and checking out Sarah's work as events (which I do). I am hopefully getting my first patient (for real this time!- i think) set up today. It will be part of my externship for next year. I worked it out with my supervisor at work and the director of clinical training and I think it is going to be a great first year externship- one individual psychotherapy patient, intakes and co-leading a group in child outpatient psych. I am still working on getting my research assistantship figured out- I think the school isn't really motivated to get that set up until the fall anyway. I won't be going away this summer because I am starting weekly externship training and this patient as soon as I finish my helpline training (only one session left - woo hoo. Sitting in sessions with HP (hyper participater) is getting harder and harder to take. I think I will go on the mind body spirit retreat in Costa Rica in between semesters. I will likely need it then a lot more than I do now. For now I am really packing my weekends with mini-trips and fun stuff. Last weekend was camping and rafting, this weekend is houseparty at my parent's empty house and then the beach with Joan and Bobby, next weekend I'm going to Baltimore to see Juliet, Lois, Seymour and the rest of the gang. I am also really trying to see all of my friends and do fun things in the evenings before school starts and I get too busy- that combined with the swimming and gym is making this summer great and I don't really feel the need to get away. I will have a travel packed Sept with Lilah's wedding in LA and the presentation in Austin. I also know that I am going to Israel in November so that combined with Costa Rica in Jan and possibly Israel in October and full family vacay to Colorado next summer should give me enough traveling for the year- especially since I am likely to get in a couple of other long weekends in LA. I'm happy to spend time this summer getting set up for next year and finishing up the film and planning the premiere- at this point I don't have anything in my life that I feel I need to get away from. I also know that I can always take a couple of days and go to Aunt Karen's beach house- which I really should be planning on doing.
On tuesday night Sanjay asked me how much I would spend to be 25 again (but be who I am now) and after I thought about it I realized that I would rather take that money and travel- I mean sure it would be nice to be this grounded, secure, confident and directed 6 years ago but I am here now and that is really enough for me. What would I get? A few more years of knowing myself and liking myself- I will have another 50 to 60 years of it. that is plenty. Sarah and I were saying yesterday that we feel bad for our past selves who got hung up on these boys that we now recognize are losers but we are so happy with our lives now that the years that we spent not knowing our worth aren't really that significant. I thought about it last night and I wouldn't trade my past if it got me where I am now. I am not ashamed of anything I have done or who I have been because I worked really hard to be who I am now and pulled myself out of a few bogs that seemed to be quicksand- knowing that I have done that and I can do that again; knowing my own strength- makes it all worthwhile.
ooh gotta run to meet elle- more to come
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