we are told to keep an emotional distance from our clients, but it's pretty difficult when you spend 8 hours a day with 6 teenaged girls who love to start drama and yell to our face and say things like, "i don't mean be rude, but..." followed by something super rude.  it's also difficult to keep that emotional distance when a client does so much better after the year in treatment and is now graduating from the program as successfully as can ever be expected.  there's nothing like a graduation party to remind us why we are here in the first place, and because of their such infrequent nature, we are told to "cling" to these successes.  trust me, i will -- the next time i'm being manipulatively lied to or ran away on.

also, whenever i have to get off from work at 10:30pm only to sleep and get up again at 7am to go back to work, i pretty much wish i wasn't alive.  BUT now that the days are considerably longer, i'm starting to like the early shift days, because now i can easily get me some after-work meditation and music sessions by the ocean while the sun is setting. a pretty perfect way to end the day, i'd say.

My new album cover? "Caliente" thinks so!