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Name: Caleb
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Gender: Male
Interests: Utmost and highest, Lord and Savior JC. Country music, old movies, new cars, hot tubs, cold sodas, Christmas presents, Carey Grant, Harrison Ford, Grace Kelly, Meg Ryan, summer, fall and spring, anytime in Montana, green horses, red roses, Wendy's salads, mom's home cooking, Mexico's ruins, England's history, little puppy dogs, baby birds, the color blue, poems, biographies, Pat McManus, C.S. Lewis, downhill/water/cross-country skiing, singing in the rain, farmer's tans, ice skating, outlet malls, roller blading, couch potatoing, education, Lord of the Rings, Tom Hanks, hunt/fish/hik/boat/ing, George Gershwin, Christopher Parkening, reading, drinking out of my mason jar, shopping at resale shops, captain crunch, & Canadians.
Expertise: If an expertise is just a description of what you spend most of your time doing, then I guess I'm an expert student
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Yahoo:  calebppeck
Member Since:
5/16/2005
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| Sooo....I work at a behavioral health facility with children (6-12 years) who are exhibiting unsafe behaviors such as homicidal, suicidal ideations, etc. Today I was playing uno with some kids and we were talking about things you can do when you are angry that will help calm you down. One kid say, "take a bath" another kid said, "take deep breaths", and the final kid said, "Kiss my girlfriend or boyfriend." Someone had alerted me that this kid claimed to be bisexual, but still I was taken back a little. One of the kids said, "wait, did you say BOYFRIEND" The first kid nodded. Again, the kid said, "BOYFRIEND?? You have a boyfriend??" How do you respond to something like that? I said something like, "Okay, I guess if that helps you calm down.....but lets talk about things you can do when you're here in the hospital that will calm you down." Yes. Grade A, classic dodge of the issue. Its dificult to know exactly what your role is, especially when the place obviously does not promote any sort of moral/value system. What would you have said? | | |
| the dismal sign? more like sigh. Okay, so exactly ONE day after logging back onto my xanga account, my computer took a total dump. I'm actually writing right now on my brother's old laptop, mostly because mine has completely crashed. I'm not entirely sure I'll be able to even retrieve the stuff from my hard drive, which could be a real problem since I have a paper due Monday that I have done about 8 hours of research for....that is lost somewhere in the cyber world, or the megabite world, wherever. Unbelievable! I'm completely on the verge of following my first inclination and throwing my stupid pc off the deck. Okay. So, I guess things aren't really that bad. Just a little annoying. So the crazy story (cuz I know my last post has you on the edge of your seat). I was suppose to be studying for a final exam (which, incidently was really hard), and I started thinking about old times, the peeps I used to know back in the day. Everyone keeps saying "oh, the days of the internet, you can find ANYONE" Hump, thought I, maybe you can. I began typing in a few people's names, Avione Heaps, Jessica M. Then I typed in Romalie M. and low and behold I actually found the entire M. clan. As I started browsing through some of their sites, I was rather surprised (which I guess is naive) that several were married with kids. I'm not sure why I assume that everyone stays the same age. After reading through a little to see what they were up to I noticed someone on one of the sites that I recognized from church. I naturally assumed that they must've been friends and still keep in touch via xanga. Only once I saw a M. family pic do I realize, no the person I recognized from church is one of the younger of the M. clan! Crazy. I never pieced it together! Okay. So, thats my crazy story. Maybe not so crazy for you as it was for me. Signing off to go catch Lost (last night's episode) before I start studying tonight. Cheers! oh, as cruising the M. clan pages, I was made grossly aware of how poor my aesthetic skills are. My page is bland, without pics. Oh well. I'm a guy with a million things more than xanga to keep me busy. Even if I had time, I probably would find something else rather than make my site look beautiful, though it does need a major revamping. Thats my excuse. | | |
| Okay, Why am I here once again? Somehow this stinkin' computer keeps pulling me back in. But, alas, I'm back. I've got the most random-ness story to tell, but that'll have to wait til tomorrow.
Cheers!
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| Ugly, but new. Can't say i HATE it. At least its not still Christmas!
Hey Erin H. Are you still out there? Andy?
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| Hey all.
yea, its been a long time. Actually since Christmas, if you can believe it. I'm going crazy here, trying to finish up my first year of the program. Finals begin Monday and I"m going out of my mind trying to catch up with everything.....
Today I went to a Psychoanalytic conference at University of Chicago. I guess it was good. Long, yea, long is the best description. Sometimes i think psychology is the dumbest field. Its full of narcissistic people who love to think they're helping people. But, then, one cannot discount the people who are really making a difference. If I EVER become one of those extremely self-centered, "I can fix the world with my theories" guy, please slap me! I think most psychologists need a major wake up call. NO matter how much we talk about emotions, talking about emotions is a form of intellectualizing experiences. Who ever said that intellectualizing was bad? Maybe defenses are good. Maybe psychopathology is normal and psychologists are the crazy ones ( to use a clinical term). Oh, maybe I'm just in finals week and venting. Yea, thats probably right.
Cheers!
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