I just got a call from my sister saying that she had been in the hospital for the past week. She had just seperated from her significant other and that stress and work and two kids, she started hearing voices. She is OK and taking some medication, but the hospital want her to stay for the weekend.
Jeez…
Hope she makes it through this ok AT…
Here for ya.
You’re being very patient Armando, try and hold in there until that new job arrives.
I can’t. Not here. I simply can’t afford to commute that far for just a single class. I have some friends campaigning for a better offer (at least one like the one the entire department was expecting. Apparently my getting screwed was a surprise to EVERYONE) but if I don’t hear anything positive by the end of next week I’m afraid I’m going to have to go elsewhere.
The only positive here is that I’ve had enough money coming in from commissions, with another big one coming up soon and the second half of a royalty check due in the fall, that I can make this work for the time being. Hopefully the agent I’ve been talking to will be willing to take me on and be able to find me one or two more things that will help us along. Because what my chair and my school have done to me goes beyond the economic necessities and is downright insulting and demeaning and I’ll be damned if I’m going to stick around another year at a deeply reduced level and be their bitch.
I am, however, glad to see you back, Michaela. I am sorry to hear of your deep loss. My thoughts are with you. How have you been otherwise?
Oof! I hope she pulls through with flying colors. I’m impressed that she had the fortitude of mind to know when she needed help and to check herself into a hospital.
I’m taking 7 hours this summer, Cal III and Statics. Next semester I’ll be taking 18 hours, and in class 24 hours a week. (Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Hydraulics, Thermodynamics, Properties of Bio Materials, and British Literature) Plus I’ll be studying for the MCAT so I can take it next spring. My nose will be in a book until I graduate. sigh
Thanks Thot
Thanks AT. It’s amazing how much impact good teachers have on your life.
I’m really sorry to hear that your sister and her children are having such a hard time. But as Armando says, one of the hardest things is those first steps to get help.
This is a rotten situation for you Armando. Loyalty in employment seems to mean nothing these days. I know how hard commuting is too. I only did it for about 10 weeks, 3 hours a day at the start of the year, but the stress of the traffic was awful, even with GWC to listen to!
Thanks for your kind words. I’ve been quite well, but just really busy adjusting to my new job. I’ve been given quite a lot of responsibility. There is a major international event that we are a part of and I am organising it. It’s running all this week and I am off to do a shift to staff our section now.
Wow! That’s some schedule. Interesting to see the Literature in there amongst all the science. Make sure you have some outlet for all that stress. Good luck!
I like to stop here every now and then so I can see what’s up and who needs a prayer. Cackleberry, I’m so sorry for your loss. Mentors do so much for us. I hope you can attend the service and celebrate the life of this very wonderful woman.
Armando, know that I’m thinking of you. I really admire that you’re still able to compose during all this stress.
AKEGirl- MCats are a bitch! Good luck!
AT- Hope your sister gets the support she needs right now.
A pray for each of you from me.
Armando, know that I’m thinking of you. I really admire that you’re still able to compose during all this stress.
I have to. It’s now my primary source of income (which is very odd to think about).
I should be somewhat glad, though. My wife is now suggesting that I don’t need to get a job, but that I could just keep pursuing opportunities. I know it’s what I’ve wanted for a long time, and it’s actually within grasp, evidently (well, not until she finds a full time job, but now that she’s temping, at least, we have a lot less financial stress), but I am really scared of that prospect and how much work it’s going to be to simply find work. We’ll see.
At least the friend who got the full time assignment at my current school was a stand up guy today and offered to start making calls to connections in other schools on my behalf, because he completely understands why I wouldn’t want to stick around or current place. We’ll see what happens.
And (pardon the continued rant) I know that I’ve been posting about this almost constantly for a year now, but it’s so frustrating, particularly since I always assumed that finding the academic job would be the easy part, given my academic credentials, of my chosen profession. And I actually enjoy teaching to boot. UGH!
Thanks everyone for the kind words. My sister should be OK, I’ll be seeing her this weekend. She had the presence of mind to realize that the voices were in her head and not something that she had to listen to. Hopefully it’s just extreme stress and not a sign of mild schitsophenia. (I know I spelled that wrong. Sorry.)
I was laid off at the start of the bust. It’s no fun. I got lucky and found work pretty quickly and I hope and pray you will too. At least you’ve got time to look.
That doesn’t sound like you’re being properly treated. Good luck finding a place that appreciates you.
Good to hear your sister’s doing better. Hope she continues that way. And don’t worry about spelling, I’m not one to talk.
My condolences. She sounds like a special person.
To much or to little. Mother nature has been rather unfriendly.
I am sorry for your lost. She sounded like a wonderful person who blessed everyone with her presents. My thoughts are with you and her family.
My sister in law just had a week stay in a hospital for severe depression. She is now back on medication and hopefully both our sisters will do better.
There seems to be a lot of that going on lately. Given the state of things, I’m not entirely surprised.
Glad to hear people are doing relatively well in spite of it all.
My sis should never get off medication. We think she stops taking it when she feels that the money needs to go to other things especially for the kids.
Ach! That’s such a big problem. Once you feel better, what’s the point of taking meds, right?
Check in with her periodically.
Thank you.