Enemy of Entropy

Another week, another 1⁄4 semester

20 January 2008, 11:40 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under College, Education, Family, Fun, Health.

I’ve suc­cess­fully com­pleted 1⁄4 of the semes­ter! With­out using any kind of accommodations!

I real­ize that’s a fairly piti­ful thing to cel­e­brate, but I have to take what I can get.

The project man­age­ment course is actu­ally giv­ing me use­ful expe­ri­ence using MS Project, along with infor­ma­tion that is applic­a­ble in the “real world.” There’s also a ridicu­lous amount of ver­biage that I’ve never heard used in the work­place, but maybe there’s been some sort of PM rev­o­lu­tion since 2000. I doubt it, but it’s pos­si­ble.

The other course is a required “how to find a job” thing. For it, I was required to con­tact my “Career Ser­vices Advi­sor.” When I asked if they have any expe­ri­ence plac­ing dis­abled stu­dents, they assumed (as usual) that “dis­abil­ity” meant some­thing like ADHD. When I explained fur­ther, I was told that no, they don’t do that sort of thing, and I should go to the state’s Voca­tional Reha­bil­i­ta­tion depart­ment. How helpful!

I was plan­ning to get in touch with Voc Rehab again any­way, though I’m in a weird limbo. My Social Secu­rity case is still pend­ing, and one rea­son I filed is so that I could get insur­ance (Medicare) so I could get reli­able health care so that I can work again. If you can work at all, you’re not sup­posed to be approved for dis­abil­ity. If you’re approved for SS dis­abil­ity, though, you’re eli­gi­ble for the Ticket to Work pro­gram to get you back in the work­force. Voc Rehab is largely funded by that pro­gram, but until the SSA gets around to my case (in 2 – 3 years, I’m told, due to major prob­lems in the sys­tem) I’m not tech­ni­cally qual­i­fied for it. I don’t want to sit around not work­ing in hopes of get­ting approved for SSA, but if I drop this case, it’ll have been too long since I last worked for me to even qual­ify for dis­abil­ity income if they do agree with my doc­tors! Our health­care sys­tem is, as most of you prob­a­bly know, fucked.

Sam spent a large part of the day dri­ving. First, he went and picked up another freecy­cle find: moun­tain bikes for both of us! (Katie already has one.) Mine is pur­ple, and his is green. I’ll try to get pho­tos tomorrow.

Then he went to Sopo to learn how to fix the wheel on my bike, which was out of true. A very nice lady named Amy helped him, and finally did that part for him, say­ing it’s pretty advanced. We still need another hel­met and chains/​locks/​etc., but those are much more eas­ily had than the bikes.

Sam has wanted a bike since before we moved here, so this is really won­der­ful. I want to get healthy enough to ride again, and hav­ing the bike makes it eas­ier to keep that in mind. Squee!

Then he went to get the girl and all her loot from shop­ping with Nana (my mother). Lots more dri­ving for that.

As a result, he didn’t get much pod­cast­ing done today, so I sup­pose he’ll work on it tomor­row, as he doesn’t have to go to work.

Did y’all have a good week­end so far?

1 Comment »

  1. avatar Hope. 21 January 2008, 9:33 pm

    I’ve had a pretty good week­end, really.

    And yes, the US health-​​care sys­tem is an absolute nightmare.

 

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