Eric Bailey's

I will explain why I haven't posted for a while. Currently I have been working two jobs and I am taking a course in Winnipeg. I did not realize how much I would be working or how much that would take out of me. At times I have really felt it is too much, but most of the time I have felt like it is needed. Given the way Christmas bills have piled up I once again feel like it is needed.

The class is the first as I work (slowly I guess) towards my Masters in Family and Marriage Therapy. It is a survey of different theories or approaches to family therapy. This has been such an interesting class that I have not had much trouble motivating myself to work on it (although it helps that there are weekly assignments and the major assignments are not too big either). I was worried because of the kind of marks necessary to graduate at the end of the course is not the kind of marks I normally get, but I am doing really well in this class, really well.

My main job is working with two different autistic children, teaching different things to each. It is an interesting job although I am often left with the feeling of this being the bottom rung on a ladder that we are expected to move up or to burn out. This worries me a little, as I am not trying to start a career, but not opposed to doing different kinds of work with autistic children. I'm not sure ... something about this all doesn't sit right with me. I like the job, though, don't get me wrong.

My other job is driving bus in the afternoon for whatever run needs a substitute driver. This is not particularly stressful except that I don't know the area that well yet, so I can sometimes be very lost (without going off the route).

Before this gets too long I really wanted to tell about what Haaken said the other day to Liam when he was very frustrated with his little brother, "See this six months in the hospital. See this, sudden death. Pick one."