#garbage state

[abc4pepper]

When people ask if I'm onthe dating scene. .i remind them that I'm still in Texas and it's garbage

[failingcollege]

Say what you will about Illinois but at least it’s not Indiana.

[peregrineskye]

the state of illinois shoved me in a locker and stole my lunch money

[peakvirgo]

What's Wrong With Texas

[southernish]

I kind of thought we were operating on the "No way is Rauner's budget going to pass" line of thinking. I was certainly feeling pretty hopeful that the state legislature wouldn't let it through. Apparently, however, I was wrong and everyone in social services is assuming crash positions. 

Over half of my clients are going to lose services if this goes through.

Thanks to all the apathetic fucks who stayed home on election day. Really great job on handing the election to this shithead.

[southernish]

I took today off for my colonoscopy prep because, even though I don't have to start drinking that awful stuff until this evening, I decided that being at work all day without food would be intolerable. But I also stupidly decided that since I wasn't working today I would go ahead and go to the DMV to get my license updated. I got up early and got out the door in time to get it taken care of in time to get home so Forks could drive to work. This would have been a fine plan had I not forgotten documents to update my address along with my name. Defeated, I drove the nearly 30 minute trip back home.

Thankfully Forks came to the rescue and offered to drive me back over and then drop me back at home on her way to work. Back at the DMV I got stuck with a stone cold dumb dumb who could not handle my name change. Like her mind was blown that I wanted to change my name from my last name to Forks-Southernish (obvs not really but y'all know I'm not giving out that detail on Tumblr). Could not deal. I had to explain it three times. Surely these people have seen hyphenated names before, yes? And then there was a whole ordeal with punctuation because the state of Illinois cannot do things like apostrophes or hyphens on IDs and she got all worked up about that too. I'm lucky that I ended up with a name that even somewhat resembles my new name on my license.

At any rate, after much frustration and struggle, I am now officially Mrs. Forks-Southernish.

[southernish]

I finally build a relationship with a client who has trust issues and now she's being shuffled into managed care where she will be assigned a new case manager and I will only be able to contact her via phone infrequently. Thanks, Illinois.

[southernish]

My job, on the whole, is not bad. It's less clinical than I would like and there are unsavory aspects but overall, it's okay. It would be considerably more okay, however, if it did not involve the state of Illinois. I'm sure that working with/for any state government agency is a headache but this particular headache is driving me up a wall lately. They refuse to pay for an in-person interpreter for home visits with a client who speaks no English. Instead, I have to use my personal cell phone to call a translation service and attempt to have a conversation through that via speakerphone. That will be a productive conversation.