Late entry is late. Suffice to say I've been busy lately, but there's a lot to write down ( Read more... )

Recently, A received her fourth warning in the HH shelter program. Under company rules, the third is grounds for filing a non-compliance report and attempting to remove her from the homeless shelter. Now, A is very fond of manipulation tactics; lies, topic aversion, and even crying to get out of warnings (despite her sixteen on the record). Once, ( Read more... )

For several reasons, I've been putting off writing about the Pokemon season this year. The biggest one is sheer laziness and failure to return to livejournal in a timely manner, though after swearing off the stuff last year I felt the entries would just remind me of breaking that promise to myself. But I figured that, this being my journal, honesty ( Read more... )

Today happened due to what I would like to call a glitch in the system ( Read more... )

A, as she was called here previously, has been pushing my buttons. The stories are pretty much true: she'll tell you anything you want to hear, making all sorts of grand plans and proclamations that she wants to leave shelter, but ultimately do very little. When you call her out on it, she always has an excuse. But, in the ways of my hero Edgeworth ( Read more... )

It's starting to feel like everyone in this homeless shelter office parallels an Ace Attorney character. My supervisor Dauhly is the Manfred Von Karma, doing anything to get someone a guilty verdict (in this case, a guilty verdict means a non-compliance file that will kick them out of housing). Dauhly wants to get all of our shelter clients who don ( Read more... )

Halfway there, livin' on a prayer. The first race of the year went well!

( Fire, mud, ice, live electric wires, underwater tunnels... oh my. )

The more I look at it, the more it feels like my job will entail being almost a lawyer for homeless clients. The fact that we call them clients and cases by default already gives me the mental image, but the "Central App" looks even moreso ( Read more... )

Some of the facts I'm learning from this job kind of terrify me. Things like 1 in 4 children in America are raised by a single parent. The top 1% of Massachusetts owns 20% of the money here. I mean, these are things I basically could have guessed ahead of time, but I didn't really think too hard about until now ( Read more... )

It would seem that my supervisor Daully is behind on her own work, so I've been given the orders to just hang around the HH office until given instruction otherwise. In this time, I've read two policy and practice manuals from cover to cover, cleaned out my desk, cleaned out my car, activated my work phone, activated my work email, and doodled in ( Read more... )