patrick: up late or early?
it’s 7:55 (in the AM)
I’m not awake because i’m an early riser. I’m awake because i’m a late…go-to-bedder…
I should probably go to sleep soon, but I don’t really want to. I slept a lot yesterday, i should be good for a while now, right?
If I can stay up another 2 hours, i can trade some dvd’s in at blockbuster when they open at 10am. Then i’ll have lots of new movies to watch tonight while i’m “working” my third shift at byrer.
I go in at 10pm and i can usually get pretty much all of my work done by 12 or 1am. That leaves me with very little else to do between 1am and 6am or so when it gets busy again. I can usually get 2 movies in during that stretch. Sometimes, even three.
In the last 2 weeks or so, i’ve watched a lot of good movies. If you don’t mind rated R type movies, check out Lucky#Slevin, starring Josh Hartnett. It was a well made film.
If you don’t mind very rated R movies, Standing Still might be worth a look-see. It is a low budget, ensemble cast release that I found at blockbuster this week. You will recognize James Van Der Beek from “Dawson’s Creek” among a few other B-List stars with various levels of acting ability. Amy Adams is an up and coming actress with a lot to bring to the table, talent-wise. Jon Abrahams will also be familiar to some of you.
Anyways, i’m sleepy. g’nite/mornin’
patrick: back to byrer
I started work at the old group home I used to work at this week.
It’s bittersweet.
Three or four of the kids I knew from last year are still there, which has made it kinda nice. They are pretty cool kids, who remember me at my best. 
It was actually kind of nice to be there, but very draining. I’m physically tired, but much more emotionally drained.
I spent 7 hours trying to encourage kids who in general have been beaten up by the world. The hardest part is that most of the staff are so jaded and abused by the kids that they tend to not talk to them with respect, which simply enhances the problem. They are used to being abused and mistreated and we can very easily reinforce to them the feelings of inadequacy that they carry with them wherever they go.
It’s tiring, but pretty rewarding to develop a relationship of trust with the kids.
I’m too tired to write anymore.
