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I had to help my mom chaperone their winter semi-formal because she didn't want to leave me home alone. Oh, man. All the girls looked like skanks. obnoxiously short skirts and pulling their tops up every five seconds. So trashy. (Bear in mind that they are 13 & 14). Mr. Consigli had me gard a corner (and occasionally run through the other side of the gym when the lights went out). I did a kick-ass job, if I do say so myself. I mean, no little eighth grader wanted to go anywhere near that corner while I was in in. In fact, several people started walking over to sit down, saw me, and scurried off to my mom's corner, It was great. A few teachers came over to talk with me, one of whom lamented "I always fall in love with gay men. And gay emn fall in love with me." Hahaha. And the I ment this girl who came up to me to talk about twilight. (My mom always talks about her- apparently she can shape-shift, and she has real vampire friends, who just happen to have the same names as the characters in twilight). I forget the name, but she really likes this one guy, "If he told me to jump off a bridge, I would so totally do it." Pffft. Silly little eighth graders. Another group of boys came up to ask if I was a teacher (-___-), to which I responded: "Yes, haven't you seen me here before? I teach sarcasm."
Oh, what a night of fun.
In other news, if I can't stop hurting myself I'm probably going to end up in the hospital again. Help me? | |
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| Welcome to Y.O.U (Youth Opprutunities Upheld) inc., The Wetzel Center, a short term residential program based in Worcester, Massachusetts!
Residential Programs |  | Helping kids grow! We provide strength-based, trauma-informed clinical and program services that partner with families, schools, and available community resources to assist our clients to achieve permanent connections and attachments to families or others who can provide a lifelong connection and support to a child returning from an out of home placement. Placements are available at several acute care settings that offer crisis stabilization services through referrals from hospital emergency rooms, emergency mental health screening teams, and managed care companies. Assessment services and rapid community reintegration are also available in community-based congregate care programs. Group Homes provide gender specific, as well as co-ed placement options, and extensive work with families as partners in treatment both during placement, and through wrap-around aftercare services. Residential Treatment and specialized education instruction and supports are available in a campus setting for adolescent girls that offer a variety of clinical and milieu services and on-campus housing for visiting parents. Teen parent apartments offer housing support, parenting education and independent living skills to teen moms, and independent living placements are also available to older teens crossing the threshold to adulthood. Residential Services offer families, children, and adolescents a broad and diverse continuum of care designed to provide out of home placements that will support successful returns home to families and community.
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Week Day Schedule:
7:00-8:30 Wake Up, Hygiene,Meds
(Be prepared to get bitched at by the nurse if you're 15 minutes late to recieve meds because staff woke you up at 8:00 and then had you take a shower right before meds were passed out)
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
(Occasionally Decent)
9:00-9:17 Morning Meeting for School
(Expect to be waiting about 15 minutes because the boys take forever to eat breakfast)
9:15-10:45 1st & 2nd Periods of School
(If your school hasn't been so kind as to send you work elementry school level worksheets will be gratiously provided. If you do have actual school work you will probably be unable to complete it due to the high levels of noise coming from the more obnoxious clients.)
10:45-11:00 Snack
(You know those really gross sticky bun type stuff that are so blatently unhealthy and gross? Enjoy.)
11:00-12:30 3rd & 4th Periods of School
(Maybe if you're lucky they'll have nothing to do and you'll get to play a rousing game of old maid with those lovely afforementioned obnoxious clients!)
12:30-1:00 Boys & Girls Check-Ins
(Don't expect to have anything much to do since they may have still failed to locate your notebook/journal, and that book you brought in and have been requesting since the first day you got here? They still haven't gotten to checking it for appropriate material, of course.)
1:00-1:30 Lunch
(Constantly crappy)
1:30-2:30 5th Period of School
(If it's monday you'll get to do structured art, tuesday is gym, unless you're still under OBS [observation] and will then be made to do some other silly activity, wednesday is room cleaning + fun movie, Matilda, for example, in a very small and hot room with those same obnoxious clients who insist on talking constantly between innapropriate laughter, followed by community meeting, where while still stuck in the same crowed room you have the pleasure of listening to those same few annoying clients complain about everything and anything they can think of [other people talking too much, for example], thursday- more gym, probbaly in the freezing cold, friday- computers [broken], chess [lie], and small mall, during which you may spend the points you've accumulated cleaning, taking showers, and putting up with all this stupidity [beware: you lose points every time you use the bathroom or request space when the other obnoxious clients finally are too much to handle] on such wonders as play-dough, cheap candy, soap, journals which they would otherwise give you for free, pens, and squish balls and other cheap crap that you'll be listening to the kids complain about breaking in no time.) 2:30-2:45 Snack (Stale cookies, yum.)
2:45-3:00 Transition to Sides for Shift Change
("Slowly, quietly, watch your space.")
2:45-3:15 Shift Change & Laundry
(Too bad you still have nothing to do. Oh well, you can always play Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the units gameboy color.)
3:15-4:00 First Activity
(Who knew playing scatagories with a bunch of hyperactive kids who can't sit still could be so much fun?)
4:15-5:00 Group
(I honestly can't remember doing this ever. I'm sure it would have been perfectly lame, though.)
5:00-5:30 Homework
(And you thought the reiculously elementry-school level work ended with school.)
5:30-6:00 RS Time
(Who knows what RS means, but this is a great oppritunity to have a wonderful [and 100% staff monitered] conversation with a roommate. Don't even think about sharing anything personal, no matter how benifitiary in may be to you feeling and getting better. Try and sneak anything and you'll be writing paragraphs for BTS, "Behind the Scenes", even if it wasn't your fault that the staff couldn't hear or see what you were doing.)
6:00-6:30 Dinner
(Providing that by some myrical the it is at somewhat luke luke-warm, the food actually had some potential to be stomachable.If not you can always spend the mealtime watching teh other girls shoveling the disgusting crap in their faces or listening to how loud the boys next door are being.)
6:30-7:00 Chores & Quiet/Relaxation Time
(That 20 questions game is kinda scary. It even got Bram Stroker.)
7:00-7:15 Pre-Activity Meeting
(Enjoy being yelled at by the staff because some dumb-ass boy took a shit in the shower, for which your chores will also be increased.)
7:15-9:00 On/Off-Unit Activity
(While other children get to leave to go to the movie theater, the store, or some other fun-filled location, you will be downstairs in the basement making a fool of yourself playing Wii Boxing. Hey, you thought you were doing good. Doesn't everyone make those rediculous motions while fighting 50 Cent as Little Wayne?)
7:15-9:00 Hygine/Bed-Time Routine
You really wanted to go to bed earlier, but they made you watch Wizards of Waverly Place. Ohh, Disney Channel.)
9:30 Lights Out
(Oh, but the hallway light right outside your room, which shines directly on you when the doors is open [and the door will be open, complete with staff sitting outside your door], will remain on the entire night. Sleep well.)
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Goddamnit, that's the second time in less than a month. Agh. I'll copy my journal entries from the dear old wetzel center later. (Maybe I'll do the ones from last month too while I'm at it.)
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| To the hospital, that is. But I've been cutting so much recently. Not good, guys, not good. | |
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Family parties. Just being around my family is tough. I mean, I don't hate them. It's just tough. Some of them are very annoying, one of them always lets me down, one of them starts conversations and seems like he has much better things to do then finish them, one makes me anxious thinking that she is what I don't want to grow up to be like, one reminds me of the bullying I faced in highschool (including them and their friends). Dinners are hard to sit through, etc.
Not to mention the deteriorating mental state that accompinies school vacations, paradoxically.
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| God, I hate people.Thanks MHS for reminding me why I stopped eating lunch in the cafeteria.
Edit: 14/12/09- It made me feel a little better when Mr. Molinari said he wishes he was there so he could slap the kid. That would've been great. c:
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| I got Mr. Moinari to buy a $106 statue of Jaba the Hut. : D | |
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| EWWWWWW. Progress Reports. I got mine today:
American Lit- Absolutely nothing c:
Algebra 2- INC (Incomplete), 17 absences
Italian 2- A+, 20 absences
The Art of Fashion 2- I (As in the roman numeral, not 1), 2 absences
I love the inconsistansies in the absences. xD Considering I've been out of all my classes for the same amount of time. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up failing almost, if not all, of my classes.
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| Books recieved: 2/6 : D
I got Togainu no Chi v.4 (you know, the one with the guy from that funny sound clip I showed you~~) and A Strange and Mystifying Story v.2. <3
Jay, my boss at work, is so NICE. Really. I love him. He got me this great big hardcover fashion book (and a college guide, lol) for my birthday, he looks up stuff for me on colleges and photocopies these lists of colleges with japanese and the cross-refrences them with schools that have fashion (nearest one is in Michigan, if I recall correctly, damnit), finds me japanese cook books, and says if i want he'll write a college referal letter-thing! I think I'll get him a Basset Hound puppy calander for christmas. 'v'
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