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Mar. 15th, 2018 10:46 amThe Child Protection meeting is this afternoon, and I'm currently waiting on a call from the mental health place I think to tell me that I can't have therapy anytime soon. A guy called last night, but I was on the train so he said he'd called back this morning, but he more or less wanted to check if I could really only do Saturdays, because due to a change in the rota, he could currently offer me two Saturdays, but then we'd have to move to evenings if I was continuing with him. I told him I couldn't really do evenings, since I work till 7pm every night, and he asked if I could do early mornings, like 8.30am? I
Right, so he called just as I was writing this paragraph, and we've sorted it out. I was going to say mornings aren't great anyway, because it's a matter of having an extra thing to do and place to go and thing to get ready for before I go to work, and I know I only work part-time, but it's still a stretch. And getting up to go for an 8.30 appointment would be abominable. But it turns out he works in my home town on Thursday mornings, and could offer me an appointment at ten to eleven regularly. Thinking about it now, given where the surgery he works is, it's going to make it a real pain to get to my train station for work from there, but ah well, may as well give it a go. To begin with he started talking about whether a phone session would be acceptable, and given that I started off asking for a phone session because I knew I couldn't do weekdays very well, and was told I really should push for a face-to-face appointment, they were better for that type of therapy, it was a little frustrating. Frankly, given how weird and halting he just was on the phone, it doesn't give me super confidence we're going to have great conversations, but I shouldn't judge, I'm sure he's very qualified, and we haven't actually done the therapy yet.
But yes, Thursday mornings, starting from next week. That's an extra thing to get to next week, on my last week before my holiday, on the week I also have a doctor's appointment on Monday morning. And so much for my week of doing nothing, nothing at all, except go get Far Cry 5, play Far Cry 5, and go to Eastercon. But I have been waiting a long time for this, and it's nice to finally get on with it, even if it did all change at the last minute and was quite sudden.
I'm still mostly looking forward to Far Cry 5. Every day leading up to my holiday feels like it's crawling. It's a little sad that I'm looking forward to Far Cry 5 more than my birthday, which is the same day. I don't really know what I want, I don't want anything that day except the Far Cry 5 collector's edition, which I'm buying myself, and my mum called a few weeks ago to ask if I was working on my birthday, because she had a possible study day then, and I more or less told her that it would be nice to see her in the morning, but I was very much planning to go to Leeds as soon as possible, get a game, and then spend the rest of the day playing that game. So maybe there wasn't a lot of reason for her to be in the house that day. I would like to go out for dinner that night, and I would like to go to Pizza Hut, because I love Pizza Hut and we never go. But a conversation with my mum recently reminded me that actually, given that I'm not working that day so there are no bedtimes to consider, I will probably be expected to go with my sister and her three kids. Which doesn't thrill me. They don't do well in restaurants, and I don't think it will be a relaxing time. But at least it will be a night out I guess.
I'm thinking of going somewhere on the Monday beforehand, because what am I going to do on the Monday beforehand except wait for Far Cry 5 to come out? I was sort of hoping we might go to Cannon Hall Farm, which is a working farm centre in Yorkshire, and it's lovely to go this time of year because there are all the baby animals. But recently my mum saw a competition on Facebook to win a family ticket to Cannon Hall Farm, and entered it, and then told me "but we're not going if we win obviously. It's too far in the car". So that's probably out. I might just go to Scarborough on the Monday. I love Scarborough.
Also I was planning to go see Alpha this weekend, because last weekend I didn't really feel like it, and now that things are actually starting to happen again I can just put things off, and have something to do next weekend. But it turns out there are no showings this weekend at my local cinema, because they've pushed the release date back to September. So so much for that.
Right, so he called just as I was writing this paragraph, and we've sorted it out. I was going to say mornings aren't great anyway, because it's a matter of having an extra thing to do and place to go and thing to get ready for before I go to work, and I know I only work part-time, but it's still a stretch. And getting up to go for an 8.30 appointment would be abominable. But it turns out he works in my home town on Thursday mornings, and could offer me an appointment at ten to eleven regularly. Thinking about it now, given where the surgery he works is, it's going to make it a real pain to get to my train station for work from there, but ah well, may as well give it a go. To begin with he started talking about whether a phone session would be acceptable, and given that I started off asking for a phone session because I knew I couldn't do weekdays very well, and was told I really should push for a face-to-face appointment, they were better for that type of therapy, it was a little frustrating. Frankly, given how weird and halting he just was on the phone, it doesn't give me super confidence we're going to have great conversations, but I shouldn't judge, I'm sure he's very qualified, and we haven't actually done the therapy yet.
But yes, Thursday mornings, starting from next week. That's an extra thing to get to next week, on my last week before my holiday, on the week I also have a doctor's appointment on Monday morning. And so much for my week of doing nothing, nothing at all, except go get Far Cry 5, play Far Cry 5, and go to Eastercon. But I have been waiting a long time for this, and it's nice to finally get on with it, even if it did all change at the last minute and was quite sudden.
I'm still mostly looking forward to Far Cry 5. Every day leading up to my holiday feels like it's crawling. It's a little sad that I'm looking forward to Far Cry 5 more than my birthday, which is the same day. I don't really know what I want, I don't want anything that day except the Far Cry 5 collector's edition, which I'm buying myself, and my mum called a few weeks ago to ask if I was working on my birthday, because she had a possible study day then, and I more or less told her that it would be nice to see her in the morning, but I was very much planning to go to Leeds as soon as possible, get a game, and then spend the rest of the day playing that game. So maybe there wasn't a lot of reason for her to be in the house that day. I would like to go out for dinner that night, and I would like to go to Pizza Hut, because I love Pizza Hut and we never go. But a conversation with my mum recently reminded me that actually, given that I'm not working that day so there are no bedtimes to consider, I will probably be expected to go with my sister and her three kids. Which doesn't thrill me. They don't do well in restaurants, and I don't think it will be a relaxing time. But at least it will be a night out I guess.
I'm thinking of going somewhere on the Monday beforehand, because what am I going to do on the Monday beforehand except wait for Far Cry 5 to come out? I was sort of hoping we might go to Cannon Hall Farm, which is a working farm centre in Yorkshire, and it's lovely to go this time of year because there are all the baby animals. But recently my mum saw a competition on Facebook to win a family ticket to Cannon Hall Farm, and entered it, and then told me "but we're not going if we win obviously. It's too far in the car". So that's probably out. I might just go to Scarborough on the Monday. I love Scarborough.
Also I was planning to go see Alpha this weekend, because last weekend I didn't really feel like it, and now that things are actually starting to happen again I can just put things off, and have something to do next weekend. But it turns out there are no showings this weekend at my local cinema, because they've pushed the release date back to September. So so much for that.
