The month of July is going to be hellacious. So much to get done school-wise and so little to do fun-wise. That is why my friends and I spent yesterday at the Kate Davis compound on Lake Martin. It was literally one of the most perfect days I can recall. Good food, some beers, floating in the lake for hours on end...

Her mom and her mom's husband took us out on a little end-of-the-day lake tour. I dreamed about having a house on the lake...ahhhh! I want that kind of life. I've got 30+ years to make it happen with that stlye of living being an end-goal.

I got a little burnt but not too bad. When we go back I am camping out on the little point...ah! I literally can not wait. 

So that was the perfect day of relaxation and now I have to get back into the books......I can't believe how fast this summer is going by. I love it though....I am starting to fall in love with Auburn and afraid I might be getting sucked into the black hole that is the Auburn community....

A lot of people don't ever leave...

Just enjoying my weekend. Melissa and I went up to Birmingham for Laura's wedding which was yesterday. It was at the same church as Christa's - and it was a beautiful service. 

Friday night we had dinner with my parents - my dad is still sober (praise God) and he also recently got a hearing aid. He can actually HEAR what people say - and he dosen't yell out his responses. 

We stayed over at Christa and Michael's house Fri night - played RockBand most of the evening. Woke up on Saturday and bought Journey tickets online for Aug 6th. That is something I'm excited about - it will be a great reward for the end of summer semester. They are playing down by the beach and we are going to make a long weeknd of it.

Summer is going to be pretty intense. Lots of reading. I might be getting laid off from my job this coming Wed. I am only working 18 hours per week and I asked if I could go down to 12 hours. They have a ton of people that have applied for part-time work who would probably be able to work more hours than I am for less pay. So...he said we would talk about it on Wed. I am going to say that I need/want the job through Summer semester like I originally had planned. I know that once Summer semester is over I will not be able to work. As it is, 18 hours of work, plus 12 hours of class time (double that for 24 hours of school-related-study-time), and 4+ hours of work at the Athletic Center makes for a really crowded week. I would apply for food stamps but you have to work 20 hours per week to qualify.

Blah. I am ready for this week - I live for the weekends because that is going to be the time where I can rest a little. Today I am going to go see a movie.....

Hope I don't get laid off this week!                                         

 Summer 2008 is kind of sucking balls so far. 

My birthday was good...I was suprised at dinner by a few of my friends. And dinner itself was probably one of the best I've ever had. I had grilled tuna that was garnished with wasabi and that red hot sauce that I love so dearly.....it was amazing. And the restaraunt was cool..we sat outdoors under a cloudy sky and there was a lot of heat-lightening.

The end of school was really busy. I passed everything though. Got a B in a class that I was certain I was doing horribly in.

Last Sunday night I got a craving for some late-night Burger King....I hopped in my Jeep and cranked it but was greeted by dead silence. The damn think wouldn't even turn over. So...I bummed rides all week. My parents came down today and brought along a new battery but it still wouldn't crank so I had it towed. The guy is going to look at it "first thing" Monday morning and let me know something.....

All I am doing for my summer is working and hanging out in my apartment. If I had a car I might run an errand....

I want my Jeep back. 

 

Ahhh. I turn the big 25 tomorrow! Tha's exciting. I am staying in Auburn though since finals are next week and I am in the middle of a 20 page theories paper. I can't go crazy but I can have FUN!!!

Christa and Michael got married this past weekend. I am going to sound like such a sap' of a guy - but the whole wedding - everything about it - was beautiful! I love the both of them with all my heart and they are so dear to me - it was an honor to stand beside them as they started this chapter of their lives. 

I found out that I got my first choice for Practicum/Internship. Starting in the Fall I will be working with Psychological Services of East Alabama Medical Center as a therapist! AH! I still have to schedule an interview and go through the orientation process sometime this summer...but I am really excited and grateful. The hospital is 5 minutes from my house...so that is awesome. As far as I know it is working primarily with the adult psychiatric ward. Too bad none of it is paid...

This time next year I will have taken (and passed, I hope) the NCE. I will be graduating and moving on from Auburn. So I have been thinking about what will come next. I have seriously been considering more school...whether that be PHd or ??? I have been looking at this...I mean, a guy can never have too many degrees, right? And I would love to go West.....

Birthday tomorrow. Dinner tonight. Paper. Finals. Graduate School is consuming my life.

This semester only has 3 weeks left....

I thought that it ended around the last week of May but apparently not...

I'm running like a chicken with my head cut off...but a chicken who has a planner in hand and is very well organized. 

I have a diagnosis test at 4pm. I had a theories exam on Monday. Class...geez. I'm over school. I love it...and I can see the end goal but I am over the "grades" part of school. 

My friends are coming down this weekend! Yay. And then I am in Christa's wedding in something like two weeks. That's insanse!!!

Other than that...nothing is new.

a couple weeks ago, when i was home in Birmingham, i lost a load of t-shirts...in the sense that i told my mom not to do my laundry and instead she did my laundry and mixed it all up so that somehow there were chapstick stains all over the shirts. womp womp. i brought them back down here to Auburn and rewashed them - specifically spot treated each and every stain - to no avail. granted, most of my tshirts are old as heck and practically worn out. anywho....point is i ordered some shirts from American Apparel and they should be here today. woo. 

and....im looking forward to this weekend. tons of stuff going on. tons of people. fun times. 

this was pointless. oops.
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Busy week. I was going to drive home this weekend but decided against it - save money and study. I needed to clean the apartment anyways. 

I taped my first mock session for Counseling Skills on Friday. She (the "client") brought out the tears - real tears! Then at the end she laughed about it...well, we laughed about it. She was/is the best "fake client" ever. Haha. 

Bad news - I got a blister from the shoes I wore on Friday. And I didn't even wear them that long. I guess I got it from walking to campus in them....and I know now that I'm an 11-11.5. Not much else. 

Oh...also dropped on by the AU/LSU basketball game where LSU won in the last three seconds with a 3 pointer......LS-WHO??? Whatever. our basketball team is good...just....yeah. I want football back.

So the things I have done today: 

1. went to Panera early and had good coffee while i read the articles for the week (Theories class)
2. cleaned the apartment
3. bought a new ink cartridge
4. cooked dinner (pasta and roasted red potatoes)
5. paid bills
6. had lengthy, positive, random (why is my dad buying popular movies and music?!)  phone conversation with both parents
7. took quiz (100%..woot!)

tomorrow: 

1. read the DSM 
2. re-review the stuff for Theories
3. sleeeeeeeeep
4. haircut?

I saw the Foo Fighters in concert Saturday night and it was awesome. I know I'm getting old - they were in fact, very, very loud.

And after a great MLK weekend - I am back in Auburn, at grad school. I won't get another break until Spring Break - which I intend to take full advantage of. Beach? Yes. 

I just purchased the DSM-IV-TR study guide off of Amazon.com. It had great reviews and hopefully will make diagnosis a little easier. This class is intense. So much reading  - so many disorders. And with every disorder is a whole page of differential diagnoses that you have to rule out. 

My work is going. Not great, not bad - just going. I think I wrote that I got moved from customer service to billing - and got my hours cut. Well I'm supposed to be at work right now but my hours got cut. I'm trying to be flexible since a part-time job where you have weekends off and make above 7.25/hr down here is hard to come by. The company has tripled in size and they're in the process of moving some departments into another building - that and I get done with the various tasks pretty quickly. I would look for another job but I already mentioned how hard they are to find here - and I probably won't be able to work starting this summer and for next year so - yeah. I still don't know how I'm going to make it financially but with the help of parents and G-O-D. It'll happen. Then I can get a job once I graduate - woo. 

Heath Ledger is dead.       :(   

Oh....I was seriously contemplating going on food stamps - but you have to work 20 hrs per week to qualify. 

Ok - I have to go get ready for class. I love Wedensdays though. I get to go to my favorite class - Skills. And I get done at 3. Too bad my night will be spent in the library. Womp womp.

if i were asked to describe what i feel like this semester will be like in one word - i would use to word intensive

this semseter is basically gearing us up for our practicum and internship experiences. we will be tested and have to prove that we can stand on our own as competent clinicians. so that means a lot of reading. a lot of paperwork. a lot of work. 

i am still working at AllSouth but now i work in the billing department. i cut my hours back considerably - so i can focus on this semester. that was smart. 

today has been productive so far
- went to Starbucks
- read for my Skills class 
- saw a car wreck 
- renewed my lease for next year

my rent is increasing to $400 next year....which still isn't that bad. i was toying with the idea of moving or moving in with somebody - but i concluded that i love living alone, within walking distance to campus, and my apartment on the 3rd floor is just the right size for me - and everything is inlcuded (including internet) except for power and cable...so here i will stay. 

schooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool...........