006 / I have GOT to actually remember to write in this thing.

The issue is, I am horrible at remembering to keep up with a journal.  I have tried for years on different sites, especially Livejournal (there have been several attempts at that one, too). 

I am finishing up my last true semester of undergraduate work.  Only exams, and nine more weeks this summer, and then... it's over.  I feel as though I ought to be relieved that I'll have a break from school, but I don't honestly know how I'm going to handle it.  I "thrive" when I have a busy, stressing, strung-out, jam-packed schedule, and I don't even have anything lined up for the fall.  Am I going to work?  Get a jump-start on graduate classes?  Disappear off the face of the earth?  I don't know.  I am clueless, and I am not okay with that.  I'm considering applying to be a full-time teacher's aide for the county, but I need to get on the ball for that one, and quickly, if I want to do it.  What I'd really like is if the company I currently work for would hire me full-time, but I doubt that will happen.  After all, I'm going to be leaving in a year, and they want to invest in people who have more time to commit.

As of the beginning of the month, I have started working with a new boy, T.  He is very high-functioning, and incredibly smart (ask him anything about Star Wars, he knows the answer), but has behavioral and social issues.  This means that the work we will do is mostly going to be Theory of Mind, which happens to be a lot of fun.  We also spend breaks watching Scooby Doo and playing with Legos.  I can't resist. :)  I hope to have lots to write about with T, because I'm hopefully getting scooped up by his family to work with him this summer.  Apparently, he's already more attached to me than he was to the last girl who worked with him, so his mom asked to keep me around.  I'm glad he likes me; because of it, I haven't experienced any of the tantrums he is known to have.

G and Baby K have both been well, too.  I feel like I never see them anymore, but it's just that I've started working with T, and G and Baby K are in and out of their regular schedule.  Those boys are getting so big - I am already missing their baby selves.  G and Baby K are almost two years apart (so 6 and 4, at the moment), and they're almost the same height.  Why can't they just be their little cute selves forever?!  Sigh.

K (not to be confused with Baby K) and I celebrated nine months together on Friday. :)  I am glad he and I always have good times together.  I am looking forward to celebrating the end of my undergraduate career with him at the end of the summer.

I guess that's all I have for now.  I need to finish making comments on the computer project Shereru so painstakingly helped me with :) and turn it in so I can just be freaking done with this class.

001 / "auspicious" would get me a good Scrabble score.

January 11th, 2011 somehow seems to be an auspicious day to begin something new - a blog, as the case may be!

I'm just going to go ahead and jump right in.  :)

I work for a private group that provides daycare and ABA (applied behavioral analysis) therapy to children with autism.  I work in the office M-W, F, and then at a client's home on Saturdays. Today was a good day, but so far they all seem to be.  Sometimes I wish I had more hours to give to them at a time - 2 hours at the end of the day seems like nothing!  Especially when I'm not really doing any real therapy with G (at least for now).  He was especially sweet today - I finally got a video of him praying!  It's so sweet - he says, "Dear God, help me. Done."  He also wanted "tickle me" almost all afternoon.  I love when he's outgoing and interactive.  I also had one of the other boys playing with my hair for a little bit.  I am okay having it pulled a little bit, but chewed on is another story. :) Still, I didn't mind too much, considering this boy has ignored all of my attempts to interact with him until this afternoon.  Baby K was also having a good day, which is always appreciated!  That child has quite the temper when he gets going.  As the hiring manager said, working with him is going to give me all the training I could possibly need...

I only have one more day of work this week because I'm going to visit my friend and her fiance in Minnesota. :)  I'm really excited to get to go see them in their "natural environment", haha.  And to also meet his baby!  (I love babies.  You will learn this about me very quickly!)  After I come home Monday, my big sis from SAI will be coming to visit me here.  So excited to be seeing my best friends so close together. :)  And then finally, before classes start on the 24th, I will be going skiing with The Boy and his friend, I hope.  It might wait until the weekend after, we'll have to see.

That's all for now!  :)