The day started out with 6am start. I also knew I would have to come back for this midnight shift that I am on now. In between all of that were meetings at the middle school for an open house. The school meetings were very interesting. I got to talk to some of the teachers and find out what my son is up to in school. Lets back up a little bit to the ending of my first work day. As I was attempting to leave a meeting was called with the boss and the next boss up. We did not have the answer that we were supposed to have something about a Culture of Change. making the place a more home like environment and allowing the residents to make choices about their decor and lifestyle. I could feel myself wanting to lose control. I wanted to say something snappy about this request that we come up with this culture of change. What they really wanted was some made up programs about what we are doing to make the residents lives more home like. It is very clear that what they are asking for is some documentation which says in the resident's chart that he has his own furnishings and pictures.We were also told that 2 staff members would have to come up with a book and put pictures in it displaying all of the programs in the culture of change. This is all of course so we have something snappy to show the JCAHO surveyors. I went home and rode my bike and went to my school meetings and now here I am at 3am back at work. I am very wound up and acting a little more crazy than usual. But I am getting the job done and plotting what I am going to suggest for this culture of change. Fo one thing we need a new government. But as we all think we know we won't get fooled again but knowing what has transpired recently and how much stupidity there is we will have more of the same.We have people who believe what they are told on Faux News. In that world we have WMD in Iraq. A war on a noun. We also have a new defiinition of fiscal conservatism. it means to spend the people's money like a drunken sailor while cutting their taxes. We then pretend that somehow our economy will grow enough to pay of 10 or 11 trillion dollars with out ever having to raise taxes. In this world we are now living in the truth no longer matters. The constitution will eventually be used to throw out the latest law that the government has just passed. They are now writing laws which are un-constitutional and pretending that they have made some progress on this war on a noun.
In the end we can only hope that the judiciary who put these nut jobs in power in 2000 will stand up and say we are a country governed by the rule of law. Throwing out the Habeus corpus rights will never pass the supreme court. If it does we are no longer a free country and anyone can be declared an enemy combatant,tortured and denied their rights.So all the while I am pondering these many situations I also find out that the people who are in charge of family values(self appointed Holier than thou right wing evangelicals) have been harboring a sexual predator.So it is no wonder that I am so angry and feeling crazy.
As for my work place I am going to suggest that it is time for some of these other areas to start getting their people up to speed .I am going to tell them to level things out and share some of the heavier work loads. They are going to hit the ceiling. I am going to rock their world but first have 5 days off. I have volunteered to help the school out with their 6th grade extended field trip. What the heck was I thinking. I went through it last year with my son and it was a life altering experience. I did so well chaperoning and teaching those 6th graders about the environment and about life that the school asked me to come back and help out again even though my son will not be there. So this upcoming experience is causing my adrenaline levels to rise and I am in a full moon madness mode. I told my son before going to the chaperone meeting that he needed to keep me out of trouble. I maintained my calm as we went to the Mc Donalds before the meeting. The place was backed way up. We calmly waited andtook our food to the meeting. It was ackward because I suspect many of the 5:30pm attendees had not eaten. So we sat and munched our food. I already knew what I had to do as chaperone so I just relaxed.
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I am feeling better now. It did help me to write this stuff out but I was typing a little faster than I usually do (flight of ideas, a clear warning sign) and the political parts in the middle just kind of came into the discussion because that stuff on the news is disturbing me greatly. To see that the people we are entrusting to write laws to protect our children are actually predators themselves or they are hiding a predator. I thought I had forgotten about the law recently written which suspends the constitution but it was also on my mind. The article begins to reveal what I do for a living which is I take care of people. Synch, I thought about some of your writings where you seem to write to sort out your thoughts and feelings. This 3am stuff is a differnt side of me as you can clearly tell. it does indeed help but it looks some what disturbing in the light of day.