Work took up most of yesterday, but there was a short hour long in-between visit from Forest Path. He came in with a cold from officiating a football game in the rain, but he still needed to pick up one of his son's from the train station.
At work the system again tried to reorganize. We're amazed though with how well we don't keep to our schedules. Each day brings it's own unplanned rhythm. We had volunteered to Sr. Tess our 15 point to-do list and had asked for suggestions. She reastablished for us the first three priorities.
The immediate priority was to write minutes for two behavioral/human rights meetings. We'd been neglectful of the first meeting back in June when things were so haywire. It really is an interesting challenge. We summarized from our really good notes six months of the individual's behavioral eccentricities, incidents, and accidents to four pages narration. We look for patterns. The odd behaviors don't surprise us anymore. This bunch ranged from shirt chewing and sneak kissing to leaving the building unescorted and revealing plots where individuals are out to do damage to others.
The other big project was to give some of the CARF work to Sr. Tess. It wasn't the finished version she'd hoped for. We calculated the actual writing of reports, outlines, and flowcharts would take at least another 32 hours (5-6 hour per day for one more week), plus there was still the collection of documents and inventories.
We're kind of hoping she'll help us with the last two. Not sure though. Forest Path says Sr. Tess is overwhelmed with all the notes we've been giving her, like reorganizing the DSP's time. They no longer see trees through the forest. We figure one hour out for essentials, 2 1/2 hours for group time, then give 15 minutes each for up to 10 individuals in any one group. Simplify!
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