Two clocks
Sep. 10th, 2002 04:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyan_blueEver since I moved to the Left Coast, I have carried two clocks in my head - one for the east coast, one for the west. Most days I am on west coast time, which makes sense, given that I've lived here for three years now.
But today I am feeling my east coast clock rather strongly, being keenly aware of what happened on a Tuesday morning one year ago. It's nearly 8am east coast time. 5am west. Boy am I going to be functional at work today...
And I need to be functional, actually. Yesterday was a crisis-laden day. I came in early to catch up on paperwork, but ended up coaching an escape from a domestic violence situation and reporting an incident of child abuse before lunchtime. Then I had my regularly scheduled individual sessions, 3 back to back (and the goddess of therapy session cancellations smiled upon me so that it wasn't 4 back to back). In the evening I had to do a safety intervention and set some serious boundaries in my group, and I am now faced with a hard choice about whether to kick 2 people out of the group.
Therapists *get* crises and ethical dilemmas to deal with, but not usually a whole bunch on one day. I'll need to consult with my supervisors bigtime today.
Gonna try to go back to sleep for a few hours... but am feeling hypervigilant.
Geri
But today I am feeling my east coast clock rather strongly, being keenly aware of what happened on a Tuesday morning one year ago. It's nearly 8am east coast time. 5am west. Boy am I going to be functional at work today...
And I need to be functional, actually. Yesterday was a crisis-laden day. I came in early to catch up on paperwork, but ended up coaching an escape from a domestic violence situation and reporting an incident of child abuse before lunchtime. Then I had my regularly scheduled individual sessions, 3 back to back (and the goddess of therapy session cancellations smiled upon me so that it wasn't 4 back to back). In the evening I had to do a safety intervention and set some serious boundaries in my group, and I am now faced with a hard choice about whether to kick 2 people out of the group.
Therapists *get* crises and ethical dilemmas to deal with, but not usually a whole bunch on one day. I'll need to consult with my supervisors bigtime today.
Gonna try to go back to sleep for a few hours... but am feeling hypervigilant.
Geri
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Date: 2002-09-10 06:56 am (UTC)Mer (Meredith from NY)