I had committed to driving to the VA on Monday and didn't have the time to go until Thursday.
I still don't have access to our mail, which apparently includes a $3,000 check, and apparently a G.I. bill certificate, although I finally took care of that.
They paid me about $950 after one month of school.
There is just a 2-3-week delay, right?
Right?!
When I don't have a deadline I keep going to pull up school stuff and deciding to go through my tabs first and not getting to school stuff until 11.
I did finally go to the VA Thursday morning--after getting my sister the information for my brother-in-law to provide respite for my brother.
I couldn't find my agency's pay anywhere, even in my work e-mail where they have shared the pay before.
I called and after waiting on hold and then talking to someone else they said $18, but their ad says that Direct Service Workers earn $20-23 and then talks about respite, habilitation, and attendant care.
Does respite pay $18 or $20?!
I don't know that I accomplished anything at the VA except for sprinting and doing a set of push-ups and then I desperately needed water.
Sonic showed a location a couple of miles away, so I set a course, which led me 19 miles to a random intersection in Mesa.
I tried calling, but the number didn't work.
I drove to the nearest location, but couldn't order because I still had one in limbo, so I drove straight to school where an OT student was talking to us, so I ran to Fry's for some water.
I had two assignments due Thursday night and didn't complete either.
It was supposed to be in English and Spanish and I couldn't just translate the Spanish because it was a language screener, so I would have needed to look up grammatic milestones.
Spanish has half as many phonemes as English, but it still took me a while to make phrases with three words starting with each phoneme.
I knew the professor docked 10% once it was 1 minute late--and only allows us to submit assignments 21 minutes late, I submitted what I had at 11:59 and went to bed.
I translated the non-grammatical remainder, updated it for my own satisfaction, and then made an oral speech mechanism screener combining the two examples we had for another class, but our professor explained why that wasn't great, although she still gave us full credit.
We were told to wear scrubs and bring gloves, but neither of the examples I saw involved me touching the client, so the gloves and provided tongue depressors were wasted, and I don't know why we were told to wear scrubs.
However, the professor reminded me that we wanted to have the client push the tongue depressor, so I will probably add that to my screener.
I lost 10% for submitting it late and then scored 71.4% on a quiz, so I am barely passing, and need to ensure that I pull up that.
Some on-line training through Colombia University was due tonight and of course the site didn't work right.
I was up until 0230 working on it, slept less than 5 hours, hiked almost 4 miles with that beautiful runner--and kept stopping to rest.
It was 107° when we got back to my car, there wasn't an inch of shade, and I brought two water bottles in a backpack thinking I wouldn't need nearly that much and, once I rested in my air conditioning for 15 minutes I drove straight to Sonic and bought a 44-ounce diet cherry limeade and a 44-ounce water.
Then I drove to Kneaders and drank a quart of soup and a cup of water.
Camelbacks are great, but I don't want to wash one again, so I said that I wanted something to carry 4 Nalgene bottles and she said they totally sell them, although I cannot find anything.
Had I started my homework at a reasonable hour I should have been able to wake up and go hiking much earlier--after additional sleep--should have made a huge difference, but what about this?
