session 1: intake

today is what i consider the official start of my graduate practicum/internship. let me tell you a little bit of what my schedule is like. yesterday, i met with my supervisor to discuss my client. this 1.5-hour session is mandatory weekly. this is in addition to mandatory weekly 1-hour sessions with my off-campus site supervisor. im expected to work (unpaid) 20-25 hours per week at this site. on-campus, i will work 4 hours a week. this week, im lucky *sarcasm face* to be charged with administrative duties so i get to log about 2 indirect hours from that. i call today the official start because im getting the highly elusive and coveted DIRECT hours. these direct hours are extra awesome because it's an intake session. so instead of the regular 50 min sessions, intake is 90 minutes! that was a brief, and maybe confusing look at what my week looks like. dont forget to factor in the 3- 2 hr classes i'm enrolled in.

i'm actually pretty thrilled that i'm one of the only people who actually already has a client. as a worrier, if i were sitting around all semester without being assigned a client yet, i'd be scared i would not accrue my required hours and all the things that come along with that sucky situation. so since im starting to get my indirect AND direct hours, i shouldnt really complain, right? um, we'll see after i find out how this first week goes.

how very inappropriate, thank you

funny things happen to me almost everytime i come to this place. why would you, on the other end of a hallway, yell to me, headed in the opposite direction on said hallway?

him: "how you doin'?"
me: not initially seeing him and thinking dang, everyone is in the hall right now. he must see someone he knows.
him: (louder) "how you doin'?"
me: turning around this time "oh, how you doin'?" and then proceeding to the ladies room

this fellow proceeds to walk to my end of the hallway and wait for me to get out the bathroom because i walk out and here he his pretending he is on the phone and then not saying anything and hanging up as he gets more interested in speaking to me. so now i have his card. i have a souvenier to laugh at for the next 5 mins while this is funny to me.