I can't believe our three-day weekend is already over. I told Ramy he should call in sick tomorrow so he could have another day of hanging out with me and Rebecca. But darn him for having a work ethic! He has things on calendar, so he won't.
It was a fun weekend for us. Friday, it was rainy, and we all slept late. Soooo nice. We took Ramy's car to be serviced, then we went to Carrows for breakfast, and then we basically hung out and goofed off all day. Friday night, we went to church. Saturday was a Holy Day of Obligation, for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, so we went to the vigil mass on Friday night (for you non-Catholics, since we consider that the day begins at sundown the night before, we can go to a "vigil" mass the evening before a particular holy day).
Saturday morning, we worked on cleaning out the garage. Then Rebecca and I went to stand in line to see Paula Deen at a book signing. I got to meet her and Michael, and Paula recognized my southern accent. She said, "Hey! You're from the south!" I told her I was from Tennessee, and Michael said, "Well, you're like home folks!" So I got my Christmas cookbook of hers autographed by both of them. Too bad Bobby and Jamie weren't with them. Then we rushed home to get ready for the party we went to last night. Our friend Paul's firm hosts a big fancy party for friends and family of the firm, so we always look forward to that. It was a lot of fun.
This morning, we went to 9:00 mass, then got a quick take-out breakfast. Then we went to Babies R Us to return something and then to IKEA. Ramy needed to work on his murder case that has a prelim coming up this week, so I took Rebecca and went to the mall to do some Christmas shopping for a couple of hours. When we got home, the garage was completely organized, but not much work got done on the prelim. Oh well, at least he is happy with the immaculate garage. Then we got Chinese takeout for dinner, gave Rebecca her weekly bath (she only gets a full bath every 5 or 6 days because of her eczema), played with her, and now we're waiting for The Girls Next Door (our new guilty pleasure reality show) to come on in a few minutes.
I'm trying to start getting things ready to take to Tennessee. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we won't get cancelled or stuck in Chicago or anything. Oh well, I'll be home for Christmas one way or another! I'm hoping it won't be too crazy of a week for me. It is the week of finals at Chaffey and at Redlands. Not too worried about Chaffey, but I have a client on suicide watch at Redlands and another couple who could melt down at any time. I actually broke one of my rules and gave a client my cell phone number in case of an emergency. I don't worry he will abuse it, but I was that worried about him.
My Rorschach class I've been teaching is over this week, so I'm trying to get all their Rorschachs and TATs back to them this week. Oh yeah, I met with Dr. Vermeersch about switching dissertation projects. It is all a go! In fact, I am hoping to do research at the University of Redlands. Dr. V does psychotherapy outcomes research, and I'm hoping to do a randomized trial comparing the outcomes of patients when no feedback is given to them about how they are doing in therapy (as based on their self-reported outcomes measures scores), when the therapist is given that feedback, and when both the therapist and the client are given that feedback. The nice thing is that it won't require any subject recruitment, which is the big bear of research. Also, it will go through our IRB as an expedited review, which should make the process easier. I told Dr. Vermeersch that my primary interest at this point was in getting the hell out of there with a piece of lambskin and some initials after my name. He was cool with that.
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