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[hummingwolf]

I want to go for a walk in the glittering snow. I want to stay home and learn things online while drinking lots of tea. I want to go to the store so I can have lots of tea. I want to go to the training school and refresh my memory on how to use Microsoft Office programs. I want to go to the museum and gaze upon Chinese calligraphy. I want to know if the homeless man with the bright blue eyes used the money he collected for drugs or for food. I want to go to the library and fill my mind with knowledge of all the wonders of the world.

I most emphatically do not want to call up Social Services to find out that nobody's done anything with my case.

Maybe I should wait til after lunch to call them anyway; nobody who knows anything is likely to talk to me before lunch, right? I think I've got enough tea to last for a few hours while I surf the 'net...

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[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had it so easy. A few years ago, when I had plummeted into a very deep depression, I ended up with this shrink who thought I was a total nutcase. I think because I hated him so much that I was falling back upon old childhood defense mechanisms. He diagnosed me with everything under the sun (except multiplicity; how's that for irony?) and as far as I know, singlehandedly got me benefits.

I'm not doing nearly as badly anymore, and my phobia for anything medical keeps me far away from anyone professing to be a doctor, but I still have the benefits. I should call them too and change my name or something. They sorta kinda know I'm married, but I guess it wasn't enough. But I just can't get myself to deal with the morons. And they always somehow turn me into a child.

Just wanted you to know that I sympathize with you. It sucks.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Thanks. These places do tend to bring out the child in people. Maybe it's got something to do with all those forms which seem so much like elementary-school homework assignments. Make sure you print your full name clearly. Remember to write out your whole address like Mommy and Daddy taught you. Tell us in complete sentences what we want to hear. Don't color outside the lines.