Not just a job. I know the economy is bad and that careers in the university systems are scarce but that is what I have wanted to do since about 1993 and this is something that my husband has known since I got my job as a Disabled Student Services Student Assistant the first year we knew each other. I have to say that I have tried my hand at other jobs and feel as though with my disability that II need to focus my attention on things that will not make me jeopardize my own health or others, for that matter.
Not just a job. I know the economy is bad and that careers in the university systems are scarce but that is what I have wanted to do since about 1993 and this is something that my husband has known since I got my job as a Disabled Student Services Student Assistant the first year we knew each other. I have to say that I have tried my hand at other jobs and feel as though with my disability that II need to focus my attention on things that will not make me jeopardize my own health or others, for that matter.
Since 1993, I have known that I wanted to work with college/university students to help them get through the struggles of the life of school, work and possible family. The reason why I got my Master’s in Social Work is because I was told by my supervisor at the Disabled Student Services Office at Cal State Fullerton, Lisa Thies, that if I really wanted her job that I would at least need a Masters degree in something so in 1997 I went back to school to get my Masters after having a son who was then barely one and a husband in grad school himself. My ultimate hopes were to get a job at the university from which my husband was a professor after he finished his journey as a grad student.
Never once did I believe that he would get a job at a small university in the middle of nowhere where the general philosophy is that there is no need for a true office for disabled students because there are not that many in the area. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA, 1990), it is technically part of what should be on every campus across the nation including Alaska and Hawaii. The way they get around not having a true office is that they make the Counseling offices and departments take on double duty and deal with counseling, testing, and disabled student issues. I understand that at small universities there are budgetary issues that would cause them to cut certain things or not care in the first place but what happened to enforcing the laws that are in place. The universities should at least have a disability coordinator on campus so that the students with disabilities have an advocate that cares about them alone. I also feel that at this campus per se that there are many learning disabled students not able to be identified in the first place because they have no idea where to start or how to become identified in the first place. If there was a coordinator at least there is someone who can find professionals who could help them identify their setbacks.
So Much Seems to be Happening
I am really not going to go into the details except for the fact that my family has undergone a whole bunch of stress. I have gone to being a little bit more anonymous than I like but I will do anything for my family. I am sorry I cannot be anymore forward but just know that I am still the same person and will not let others change who I am and I do not expect my husband to change anything he does because that is what I fell in love with when I first met him over seventeen years ago.
I love my husband more than ever because of the fact that he stands up for what he believes in and does not let others opinions shut him up or change him just to conform to the norm. I have to say I always admired those scientists who even though their scientific findings may not be popular they stick up for the results they have found.
Just leave us alone, Bitch!!! Leave us alone!!!
I love my husband more than ever because of the fact that he stands up for what he believes in and does not let others opinions shut him up or change him just to conform to the norm. I have to say I always admired those scientists who even though their scientific findings may not be popular they stick up for the results they have found.
Just leave us alone, Bitch!!! Leave us alone!!!
So Much to Think About....
My youngest girl will be going off to school this next year and I will no longer need to be home for her during the morning hours thus I need to have something to do: A job, a life beyond my kids. I am not saying that my job as a mother is done as it is just beginning because I am having to monitor my kids and especially dealing with misconceptions I feel they get from friends and other people in the outside world. My main thing is I need to have something to do besides sit at home while my kids are at school during the weekdays.
I may have to put my writing career on the back burning and just get a boring sit down job at the university because there is nothing else available that I can do. I know that I must have a job that does not entail me standing all day because of my disability and the meds I take to stay healthy. The good thing is that I always wanted to work with professors and college students in a university/college atmosphere -- thus I guess I should not complain to much if I must go below what my degrees have afforded me and take any job that I am qualified to do. I will do that if I must as I doubt that the university my husband is at will ever have a true Disabled Student Services office because they find it unnecessary to even place someone with experience with that population of students in the counseling office. I know that they are trying to do what they think is best but even so I believe that there are students struggling with disability and learning issues that are not being identified because of the lack of an advocate to help them out.
I may have to put my writing career on the back burning and just get a boring sit down job at the university because there is nothing else available that I can do. I know that I must have a job that does not entail me standing all day because of my disability and the meds I take to stay healthy. The good thing is that I always wanted to work with professors and college students in a university/college atmosphere -- thus I guess I should not complain to much if I must go below what my degrees have afforded me and take any job that I am qualified to do. I will do that if I must as I doubt that the university my husband is at will ever have a true Disabled Student Services office because they find it unnecessary to even place someone with experience with that population of students in the counseling office. I know that they are trying to do what they think is best but even so I believe that there are students struggling with disability and learning issues that are not being identified because of the lack of an advocate to help them out.
I Wonder All the Time!
Is there any way that my family and I will be accepted in this right-wing state we live in. There are many times that I wish that people could look past the fact that my husband and I are Liberal and Democrat respectively and notice that we are people to and we are going to be living among them until my husband retires from the university he currently is a professor at in the Panhandle of Oklahoma.
The fact is that people in big Metropolitan cities have learned to live amongst diversity for many decades and several centuries and possibly longer in other countries: Why is it then that small towns and even states have a hard time when a few people speak out on their own beliefs that defer from the majority in the town or state, or even region of the country?
I am not going to succumb to the norm just because it is the 'right' thing to do. Conforming has never been my way of life and thus it will never happen!I am never going to be a Republican and I continue to make my own choices and thus think critically when it comes to EVERY aspect of my life including politics and my spiritual journey through life. I am the one living MY life no one else and thus I am going to make my own decisions that makes ME happy.
JAMES, I LOVE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT!
The fact is that people in big Metropolitan cities have learned to live amongst diversity for many decades and several centuries and possibly longer in other countries: Why is it then that small towns and even states have a hard time when a few people speak out on their own beliefs that defer from the majority in the town or state, or even region of the country?
I am not going to succumb to the norm just because it is the 'right' thing to do. Conforming has never been my way of life and thus it will never happen!I am never going to be a Republican and I continue to make my own choices and thus think critically when it comes to EVERY aspect of my life including politics and my spiritual journey through life. I am the one living MY life no one else and thus I am going to make my own decisions that makes ME happy.
JAMES, I LOVE YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT!
Lost Stella Yesterday!
Fluffball Stella 2001-5/7/2009
We are a little sad around our house as we lost another cat, Fluffball Stella. I took her to the vet yesterday knowing deep down that we were going to have to put her down. She was between seven and eight years old and will be missed tremendously. Her white blood cell count was threw the roof and she lost a lot of muscle mass and more. I am just really glad she is not suffering anymore.
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