craziest week in a while

this has been my craziest week in a while. had to move a child and deal with a runaway amidst all the end of the month stuff which means making all my contacts. things had been relatively quiet lately. i had been getting kinda lazy. i think i work better in crisis mode sometimes. with my caseload lower it I am supposed to be able to provide better services to families. my day is just as full of things to do they are just non-emergency things instead of the constant flashing red lights. well we'll see. i am amazed that the one year mark has come and gone so quickly. i feel as if i just got the job. Right now I am still enjoying the novelty of haveing a job for more than a year. all of my previous jobs have been temporary/seasonal. and before that i was in high school. i think the longest i have worked at one place was at Super K Mart back in the day. i want to say i was there for four years, i guess that would be all through high school. it could not have been that long. who knows, it was a while. i still feel like im only pretending to be a big boy and a professional. someday someone will discover that i have not really grown up or something.

so get this, i have signed a year lease at my new place. i think at the end of that year it will be time to get out and try something else. so far possibilities range from photography school to trying to start an outward bound base in GA and a few in between. i am excited about the idea of an OB base but I have no idea where to start. i think it is something that DJJ and DFCS in GA can utilize. after working for the state for a year i know that we have no shortage of troubled youth. i would love to do if off the original US model and mix at-risk population with standard pop. the idea is not that the good kids would rub off on the bad kids, but that they would both become better people because of the experience. there is so much depth and richness to be experienced in the OB experience.

the problem with that particular path is that i dont even know where to begin. where does money come from? where would it be based? what rivers might we run? who would staff the trips? and then there is navigating GA ORS. God only knows and it is only by His hand that anything takes place. I have to believe this or I am really screwed.