Long Day

Thursdays for me are long, very long. They are also kind of like a roller coaster. Actually, now that I type that I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean. I understand how people typically use it, meaning whatever they are talking about has its ups and downs, but is the up part of a roller coaster really the good part or is the down part, where you're safe again, the good part. This is what Thursdays do to me. My exhausted brain continues to over think stuff.

Thursdays begin with 3 hours of preschool clinic. I like kids children (my maw-maw was watching the news and they kept saying kids and she asked, "why do they always say kids instead of children? kids are baby goats."), but I am not too good with children. I can take care of them. Have fun with them. The challenge with the preschool is that things have to be said in certain ways. No command, no yes/no questions. Everything is done in a way to facilitate language and it is challenging. Today was only my first day doing it though so I'm sure I will get better, I certainly hope I will. With the preschool I know what's going on though, and we are given clear direction on what's happening.

After preschool I have an hour break. In that hour I have to cleanup at the preschool, eat lunch, and go to Hatcher to get ready for my next clinic.

Then I have my Accent Modification Clinic for 1 hour. There's not much direction given on it, and going in to it I feel like I have no idea what's happening. I'm just winging it. But it has gone so well. I even have fun with it. The supervisor said she thought I would be like a shrinking violet, but I really come out of it and she has given me good comments. Let's hope I can keep that up!  I don't want to say too much more because I don't want to accidently cross any HIPAA boundaries, so I'll just leave it at I really enjoy AMT.

After the AMT clinic I have a 2 hour break. That break is filled with meeting with the AMT supervisor, figuring out what just happened, doing paperwork, and a little bit of free time.

Then it's class time for 3 hours. By the time I get to class I've lost all my energy. It's a bit of a rough three hours. As soon as class is over though I make like a banana and split. (Yes, I just found that phrase because I had used another one but wasn't actually sure the meaning of it so I googled it. Found out I used it wrong but found this fun one instead. And also, yes, I had to sing the Gwen Stefanie song to correctly spell banana).

I head over to the BCM. The power walk to my car, then drive, then walk to the BCM energizes me again. I get there and I'm full of energy and excitement to be there. Then about halfway through it hits me how tired I am, and then I feel ready to just crash.

Do I crash though? No. I come home and blog about the long day, thus making it even longer. You know why? It's because after a long day like today I really haven't gotten to talk to people much and so I'm busting at the seams with things to say to anyone who will listen. I don't really ever get that much of a chance on Thursdays to share any of those things with anyone. Bummer.

There was one more thought to go with all this. Tonight at TNT while we sang You Never Let Go my first thought was this song. It's a great song but for it and How He Loves in my opinion got used way too much and I'm just kind of sick of them and would be okay with not singing them again for a very, very long time. I did have a positive thought while singing You Never Let Go. It may seem silly but "There will be an end to these troubles but until that day comes I'll live to know you here on the earth," made me think of all the "troubles" school is causing right now. They aren't so much troubles but just a lot to do and it's overwhelming. I thought though that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. When I graduate that will be the end of these troubles. But even now as I have this overwhelming "troubles" God is still good. I still have overwhelming joy in knowing Him and that makes it all okay.