98 degrees

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year (so far???), at 98 degrees off the temperature gauge in my car.

It was hot last night too.

Today, at 9:30, it’s not (yet) as warm as it was, but the prediction is for 97 degrees – only marginally cooler. I guess I’ll see whether or not it really really gets so hot. I used to live in the Southwest, in Arizona and Nevada, and it was HOT in those places fro months on end, and I got (sort of) used to it, but I’ve been living here in the Northwest since 1987, and have adapted to lower temperatures. 98 degrees is HOT.

So is 97, and I suppose that I’m hoping it doesn’t get so hot. We aren’t used to that up here. Right now, the skies are cloudy – not completely overcast, and that means that the humidity is higher than most people like.

(these people don’t know nothing about humidity. In Navy days, I lived in Virginia and South Carolina and it would get to 100 degrees and 100% humidity. Kobe, Japan was like that, for weeks on end sometimes, and I so missed the west and lower humidity. If it gets above 60% here, you hear people complaining about how muggy it is)

Life Skills Training work today, after school for my client. 2 hours of work with him, and we will most likely go to the library again. It’s totally within walking distance of the home he lives in, and the air conditioning is ON there. We went there on Tuesday, where I helped him with his homework. My client has just begun his Freshman year in High School.

Monday, the whole team will have a meeting, a 30 day meeting since his placement in this Home, and since I see him the most of all of the team, I guess I will be a crucial voice at the meeting. It’s interesting and "fun" to be part of a group affecting people’s lives for the good. My client is half way through the 60 day placement in this Home, and he really looks forward to having some of the restrictions placed on him lifted. He is actually in a much less restricted environment than he was, and there’s quite a history behind his present troubles. Kids are so malleable at a young age. They can get twisted at a young age, and if that isn’t corrected, it will affect them all their lives. I’ve seen how that plays out: my friend how (was) a drinker was abused by her father when she was young, as were her sisters, and that has so much to do with her excessive drinking now and through her 53 years of life.

I’ve been doing this kind of work for a long time. I feel like my life experiences have prepared me for this work, and that I’m "in the right place at the right time".

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Friday and Saturday will be my first days on the second job, working with adults in Group Homes, which will be even more direct work with people with disabilities, both physical and mental. That job will be 8 hours a shift, and I’m curious to see how I do.

Whatever happens, I’m pretty sure I prefer this work over driving a school bus or a charter bus – less stressful for me, I think.

So, onwards.

 

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