PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT TODAY. Got there on time (so psyched up, set alarm for 9am for 10:30 appointment). Man! It was exhausting. We only got a half or a third way through the potential ground to be covered. So I'm not bandaged up in str8 jackets yet ... The next appointment can't be till after August as that's holiday season (not as bad as in France. But still; you can rarely ever do anything important in August ... He knows all about my supersonic hearing episodes, handwashing episodes, depression episodes, hair falling out episodes (never even mentioned that here), suicide "episodes" (psychiatrists love the word "episode" - perhaps it's because they can sit back, tuck into the popcorn and lasciviously wait until the next drama unfolds in that patient's life: the next "episode" ...)
Well no other news except I have to post this now as am off home and not coming out again and it's raining. And the council man: I only found out this morning, was coming for "inspection" today. Well good luck to him because far as I was concerned he was coming Monday and I'll tell him that if anyone ever asks and spick and span is one thing but I live in that room. In one room. With no storage elsewhere. So I'm not making it un-lived-in for anyone. I've done the things they wanted. If I do more I know they will only find fault so I'm keeping my actions to the minimum. If my room is not in a perfectly acceptable state ... well I will eat a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ...
Right I gotta go because I'm tired. It is 3pm I've been out all day and I want to see what if any nasty correspondence/other things have been left for me back there.
Cheerio!
I love your blog. It's so ... interesting!
ReplyDeleteHurry up and get on with those welshcakes.
Who is mother Hubbs? Can you explain please? Is she really your mother? I'm thinking not.
Interesting is a good word for it. :)
ReplyDeleteDiesel: certainly better than boring!!
ReplyDeleteLiz: Mother Hubbs (Mother Hubbard) isn't really my Mum; she is a friend i met about 5 years ago who has helped me a lot
Mother Hubbard was a kind of nickname that came up ...
Hope all went ok with the council man. When i think of the clutter I have in a whole house! You should be proud of managing in just one room.
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Blimey Gleds! That's a looooong time between appointments!
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hee gledsky
ReplyDeletehow are you? see you are going to a psych! thats good dude!
impressed by your actions and change of mind. hope it will help on your 'episodes' . i am fine, happy to be here in guata!!! last weekend i tried some acid *again* way much stronger than i was used to so happy i took half a tab!
well hope to speak to you again, bye, claire
Psychiatrists are sooooo episodic!
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Hope the council bloke wasn't too difficult. Have you made the welshcakes yet?
ReplyDeleteThe weather has been just as shitty here. I'm glad you made it out for your appointment on time. At least it shows them your commitment.
ReplyDeleteYou can't get anything done in Holland during the summer either. Everyone shuts shop and leaves for sunnier parts. The funniest thing was one summer when one of my ex-colleagues went to the public pool, only to find a note that they too were closed for their two weeks of summer vacation.
I hope all went well when you got home.
ReplyDeleteJesus. You Europeans never work. No one in America takes a month off. Ever. Unless they're dying.
Maybe I need to move there....
Have my comments today seemed peculiar? They seem peculiar as I type them, but who knows. Waiting for the results of a skin biopsy and it's making me crazy. Take care, Gled.
thanks for your recent episode
ReplyDeleteWhat's a councilman in the UK? In America it is a locally elected official ; one who you write a letter to if you want a new traffic light installed up the street.
ReplyDeleteRuth: that is my biggest gripe - one room! But beggars should not (cannot) be chosers ...
ReplyDeleteJane: I know. He wanted to make it within 2 weeks longest. But Aug = holiday time, so ...
Claire: glad you're having an entertaining time in Guat'...
Wayward: you're damn right there
ReplyDeleteAudrey: Evilstein is just picking on me now. Wanted me to chuck my umbrella collection out "it is for your own good" yeah like hell it is
Ake: I was out when Council guy came... thankfully! Wouldn't have stayed in anyway, not after being told he was coming Monday and then finding out was Wednesday at literally 9am off the workman who'd come to staple carpets down in the hall ...
Nicole: our August as I said isn't as bad as France's but it's still pretty useless: the time anything is likely to be shut (the very time tourists are gonna wanna see it) ... we've been having 4cm an hour rain several times a week... floods all over the place. But not in London (I don't think London "can" flood bc most is too uphill from the river ...)
ReplyDeleteGgirl: as I said it IS more of a French thing but yeah August is crap... also in a good job here you might get up to 6 weeks holiday a year (certainly four weeks) which is far more than I've heard they give you in the old US of A ...
Raffi: that's quite all right you're most welcome
M-Filer: Council man...= guy from the local authority which pays most of the exhorbitant price of my housing (it is over £200 per week bc it's "emergency" accommodation") ... A councillor is an eleced official; "man from the council" would be just a paid up civil servant who has to do with running of the departments but stays in a job whoever is elected. Aparently they don't have nearly so many nonelected officials in America. Here we like it bc it gives continuity whoever's in government. Certainly we would not abide senior judges being appointed by Government of the day. That sounds like corruption!