Multi-User Lunch
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judecorpI know I said the people I work with are Stepford Social Workers, but I am really starting to like some of them. And they're not all Social Workers, so I guess they're just Stepford something else. ;) One of them (Coworker Nicole) reminds me SO MUCH of a lot of the people who went to college with me. Come to find out she's from Westchester County (NY) and that would definitely explain it! She's an LCSW and we have similar work experience, so I like her. Even if she is WAY too skinny.
So many of my coworkers are thin, and the others are all dieting. Where are all of the fat-positives? It's crazy. There are all of these women who are smaller than me, and they are on diets. Not, like, "eating more healthy" diets, but "eating to lose weight" diets. Of course, every week it seems like we have some sort of snacky at staff meeting, so I don't know how one goes with the other. Today we had this giant cake from a bakery for someone's birthday. Mmm, diet!
But it's nice to get to know people, because I'm starting to learn little quirks about their personalities. Like Coworker Sarah (not nearly as cool as THE Coworker Sarah, but you know...) won't use plastic containers because she has this phobia of plastic toxins. And Coworker Gina always makes these funny expressions with her eyes. And the director has this obsession with finding out what everyone is eating for lunch. I've never worked at a place where almost everyone makes an effort to come back to the office and eat lunch together. I actually really like it!
I feel like I have so much I need to learn just to be competent at this job. So many of my clients are referred for speech delays and I'm not a speech person so how the heck am I supposed to help them? I guess I'd better start reading up on some things. Maybe I will ask some of the experienced people for some ideas of things to read. There are only so many times I can use my one or two strategies, right? Ha ha.
Tomorrow afternoon I am doing an assessment of a 13-month-old girl who was born at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed like 1 pound 4 ounces. It really is amazing. Luckily she was spared a lot of the complications of prematurity (she has retinopathy but not that bad, her hearing is good, she has lung problems but is now off oxygen, etc.), but I have such mixed feelings about that sort of thing. In some countries, doctors won't even resuscitate or incubate a child born before 25 weeks gestation. Sometimes I worry that in an effort to always make more strides medically, we're saving kids that have to struggle just to live their lives. I don't know how I feel about that.
So that should be interesting. I think she will be fun to work with because she probably has global delays (for her birth age, not her maturational age) and therefore I won't need to have totally specific knowledge in one area. And I can ask for a lot of consults and get lots of people involved. That should be fun.
Goodnight, LiveJournal. I need to take a break and live inside my own head for a while. HUGS to everyone who needs them - rough stuff seems to be going around.
So many of my coworkers are thin, and the others are all dieting. Where are all of the fat-positives? It's crazy. There are all of these women who are smaller than me, and they are on diets. Not, like, "eating more healthy" diets, but "eating to lose weight" diets. Of course, every week it seems like we have some sort of snacky at staff meeting, so I don't know how one goes with the other. Today we had this giant cake from a bakery for someone's birthday. Mmm, diet!
But it's nice to get to know people, because I'm starting to learn little quirks about their personalities. Like Coworker Sarah (not nearly as cool as THE Coworker Sarah, but you know...) won't use plastic containers because she has this phobia of plastic toxins. And Coworker Gina always makes these funny expressions with her eyes. And the director has this obsession with finding out what everyone is eating for lunch. I've never worked at a place where almost everyone makes an effort to come back to the office and eat lunch together. I actually really like it!
I feel like I have so much I need to learn just to be competent at this job. So many of my clients are referred for speech delays and I'm not a speech person so how the heck am I supposed to help them? I guess I'd better start reading up on some things. Maybe I will ask some of the experienced people for some ideas of things to read. There are only so many times I can use my one or two strategies, right? Ha ha.
Tomorrow afternoon I am doing an assessment of a 13-month-old girl who was born at 23 weeks gestation. She weighed like 1 pound 4 ounces. It really is amazing. Luckily she was spared a lot of the complications of prematurity (she has retinopathy but not that bad, her hearing is good, she has lung problems but is now off oxygen, etc.), but I have such mixed feelings about that sort of thing. In some countries, doctors won't even resuscitate or incubate a child born before 25 weeks gestation. Sometimes I worry that in an effort to always make more strides medically, we're saving kids that have to struggle just to live their lives. I don't know how I feel about that.
So that should be interesting. I think she will be fun to work with because she probably has global delays (for her birth age, not her maturational age) and therefore I won't need to have totally specific knowledge in one area. And I can ask for a lot of consults and get lots of people involved. That should be fun.
Goodnight, LiveJournal. I need to take a break and live inside my own head for a while. HUGS to everyone who needs them - rough stuff seems to be going around.
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Date: 2004-08-12 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-12 01:34 am (UTC)I was thinking today that she was born in July. And she should have been born in NOVEMBER. Gah.
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Date: 2004-08-12 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-08-14 12:50 am (UTC)This office is still full of dieters, but New Yorkers like food much more than the Portland people. And rather than fad diets they cling to things like Weight Watchers, which although they may not need it, it's at least much healthier for them.
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Date: 2004-08-14 02:03 pm (UTC)And yeah, it's definitely the "office full of women" phenomenon. I dunno, my last job in Columbus was full of heavier women who liked to eat. Why do you think we were always going to Chipotle? YOM YOM!
I agree that WW and South Beach are healthier than some of the alternatives, especially that freaking cabbage soup diet. Someday when I get my crap together I'd like to do something resembling WW myself.