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grammarwomanLately it seems like I've only had two speeds - breakneck or full stop. First I was working on my vid like a fiend, blowing off life and work and such. Then I had to play catch-up on a work project that's due at the end of today, which meant working late nights and weekends, including 5 hours on Mother's Day. I finally had everything ready yesterday afternoon, including a user instruction doc, and sent the whole shebang off to the users for review before dashing out the door to make it home in time to meet my parents and jet to the Emperor's IEP re-evaluation.
Once again, I bless my dad and his professional experience in special education and his stubborn insistence that no one is going to deny his grandson the services he needs. It got especially frustrating when the school representatives kept stating that he was doing fine and could do with a downgraded plan, when the only reason he was doing fine was because of the level of services he gets and the fact that he's in a gifted classroom, which has more wiggle room in accommodating square pegs like the Emperor. It also doesn't help that Illinois has redrawn its impairment requirement checklist now that the DSM V has done away with the Asperger's diagnosis, so the Emperor's issues don't fall so clearly in the overall Autism Spectrum Disorder paperwork. After two hours of back-and-forth, we finally set out new goals and re-upped the IEP. I'll be happy when the document lands in my hands and everyone signs it into official existence.
We had carry-out dinner to celebrate with my folks, then they got back on the road, the Emperor got hustled off to bed, and I settled down to check the feedback on my project. Whereupon I found absolutely nothing, no responses at all. I emailed my boss this morning about the complete lack of anything, and followed up with one of the users who proclaimed herself "too swamped to look at it now". The boss later let me know she'd contacted the users and someone would be getting in touch with me. A couple of hours later, still nothing.
Today while waiting I've finished a short request, cleaned out a bunch of old emails from my work inbox, blanched at the size of my personal inbox, played several rounds of Chris Evans 2048, and basically felt the ghost pangs of "Isn't there something I should be working on?" that comes from shifting from non-stop coding to free-fall. I gotta find a better balance.
And there's the boss on IM, telling me not to feel bad about it, and that I'm doing a good job. At least there's that.
I'm completely behind on reading everyone else's updates, so sorry if I missed anything. I hope you don't mind if I chime in on old conversations as I catch up.
Once again, I bless my dad and his professional experience in special education and his stubborn insistence that no one is going to deny his grandson the services he needs. It got especially frustrating when the school representatives kept stating that he was doing fine and could do with a downgraded plan, when the only reason he was doing fine was because of the level of services he gets and the fact that he's in a gifted classroom, which has more wiggle room in accommodating square pegs like the Emperor. It also doesn't help that Illinois has redrawn its impairment requirement checklist now that the DSM V has done away with the Asperger's diagnosis, so the Emperor's issues don't fall so clearly in the overall Autism Spectrum Disorder paperwork. After two hours of back-and-forth, we finally set out new goals and re-upped the IEP. I'll be happy when the document lands in my hands and everyone signs it into official existence.
We had carry-out dinner to celebrate with my folks, then they got back on the road, the Emperor got hustled off to bed, and I settled down to check the feedback on my project. Whereupon I found absolutely nothing, no responses at all. I emailed my boss this morning about the complete lack of anything, and followed up with one of the users who proclaimed herself "too swamped to look at it now". The boss later let me know she'd contacted the users and someone would be getting in touch with me. A couple of hours later, still nothing.
Today while waiting I've finished a short request, cleaned out a bunch of old emails from my work inbox, blanched at the size of my personal inbox, played several rounds of Chris Evans 2048, and basically felt the ghost pangs of "Isn't there something I should be working on?" that comes from shifting from non-stop coding to free-fall. I gotta find a better balance.
And there's the boss on IM, telling me not to feel bad about it, and that I'm doing a good job. At least there's that.
I'm completely behind on reading everyone else's updates, so sorry if I missed anything. I hope you don't mind if I chime in on old conversations as I catch up.
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Date: 2014-05-14 01:48 am (UTC)A lot of the refinements they make in the successive DSM releases are positive, but this one seems to have taken away some useful terminology and grouping of issues, alas.
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Date: 2014-05-14 08:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-05-15 01:16 pm (UTC)I imagine a lot of people in the medical community had negative reactions to that change; I wonder what TPTB thought they were gaining?