refelctions on 10/14/06
This week has been one of the hardest weeks I have had to face in a long while. It really was like that saying of how everything that can go wrong will go wrong. I must be honest though and say that a lot of it was brought on by me. Despite everything that has gone wrong this week, I can honestly say at this moment I do feel very optimistic about my future. Maybe it’s like starting over in a sense… to try to get my brain to work better.
Today has been very low key. I worked for 4 hours as a stand-in for William. It was really fun because I got to do a dive show for the first time ever.
I work at the Tennessee Aquarium as an educator. The dive shows the educators get to do are over in the salt water building, Ocean Journey, and we stand on the outside of the tank and talk to the divers on the inside of the tank. Basically, we go through a script and talk to the guests. We had some technical difficulties for the first show, and I felt so bad about having all the guests there and then having to say that the show wouldn’t be on for the first half. There were quite a few cute questions from the kids among them, (to the diver) “Have you ever run into the glass?”, and (to me) “Can the fish talk too?” It was really cute! The diver that did the talking was named Matt, and he kept getting bit by an angel fish, though, I think he played up the “ouches!”
A first today was that I went to the downtown library, and rode the shuttle for the first time since I graduated. It was weird to sit on the shuttle and feel the flow of the electricity under my feet. Chattanooga has about 10 Electric shuttles that run downtown in 2 directions, it’s really neat! As I rode on the crowed shuttle I remembered the last time I rode. All the feelings of hope and freedom knowing that in a matter of an hour I would be free from the chains that high school kept me roped in. It was really nice.
I am trying to formulate exactly what I need to say to my parents tomorrow. I hope my dad comes home at an early hour. Hopefully, my parents will understand. I feel like everything is riding on this. Figuring out what is going on inside my head is going to help me get better. Robert said that medicine could help, but that it’s more helpful to just get things out there. We shall see I guess.
An unrelated note: today was the first time I saw Wilco last year. It was amazing, and can be summed up in this picture:
Today has been very low key. I worked for 4 hours as a stand-in for William. It was really fun because I got to do a dive show for the first time ever.
I work at the Tennessee Aquarium as an educator. The dive shows the educators get to do are over in the salt water building, Ocean Journey, and we stand on the outside of the tank and talk to the divers on the inside of the tank. Basically, we go through a script and talk to the guests. We had some technical difficulties for the first show, and I felt so bad about having all the guests there and then having to say that the show wouldn’t be on for the first half. There were quite a few cute questions from the kids among them, (to the diver) “Have you ever run into the glass?”, and (to me) “Can the fish talk too?” It was really cute! The diver that did the talking was named Matt, and he kept getting bit by an angel fish, though, I think he played up the “ouches!”
A first today was that I went to the downtown library, and rode the shuttle for the first time since I graduated. It was weird to sit on the shuttle and feel the flow of the electricity under my feet. Chattanooga has about 10 Electric shuttles that run downtown in 2 directions, it’s really neat! As I rode on the crowed shuttle I remembered the last time I rode. All the feelings of hope and freedom knowing that in a matter of an hour I would be free from the chains that high school kept me roped in. It was really nice.
I am trying to formulate exactly what I need to say to my parents tomorrow. I hope my dad comes home at an early hour. Hopefully, my parents will understand. I feel like everything is riding on this. Figuring out what is going on inside my head is going to help me get better. Robert said that medicine could help, but that it’s more helpful to just get things out there. We shall see I guess.
An unrelated note: today was the first time I saw Wilco last year. It was amazing, and can be summed up in this picture:
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