me

[buggery]

I won't be around much this week. I'm doing five days of training (three this week, two next week) for a new volunteer job I'm starting, which I'm very excited about; I'll be working with abused and neglected kids, helping to ensure they get the services they need.

The training is fun -- I've missed taking classes more than I've given much thought to since getting my university degree -- but long, 6-7 hours a day, and a 90-minute one-way commute for me. So by the time I get home at night I'm pretty wiped on top of having most of the day gone. I'll probably need to crash extra-hard come the weekend, on top of needing to do my other volunteer work on Saturday; for those of you who don't know, I help run a Saturday "soup kitchen" serving needy people who can't get to an alternate location on Saturdays, when the institutional soup kitchen downtown is closed.

I'm still thinking writing thoughts, never fear, and hopefully I'll be able to post some sort of fic content sometime this weekend. Or maybe some new-Toon-Titans / JLU-premiere squee Sunday morning.


Incidentally, if anybody is amused by the irony of my current fandom and my new job, you're not alone; and if anybody is horrified and is considering reporting me, let me remind you of three things: I won't have any unchaperoned contact with kids in the program, I'm doing this because I've been an abused child myself and I know they need more help than the system alone often gives them, and you don't know my full name anyway.

Comments

[karabou.livejournal.com]

and if anybody is horrified and is considering reporting me

That's just awful to even consider.

[solidor.livejournal.com]

That's really, really awesome. I've been volunteering with kids for a bit now, but would really like to help in a similar facility. I'm not sure if I'm a little young to, though (twenty). Good luck on it.

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

I admire you a lot for doing this. You are going to make such a difference in these kids' lives.

But I boggle over people who are unable to differentiate fantasy from reality, or conceive of the fact that others can and do. Reporting you? Man...

[meret.livejournal.com]

I'll be working with abused and neglected kids, helping to ensure they get the services they need.

Bless you!