I really need to purchase some snow boots...

I've got my first assignment for this new project I'm working on (and I even have a deadline--I feel so important! haha):
I will be assessing a young man for the program in the next few days. I must ask him a whole lot of questions--assessments are not new territory for me--and offer him information about the program. I think, due to the weather, I'll likely be doing this interview over the phone. This is not my favorite development--I'm not much of a phone talker--but I'll live with it.
I'm very excited to get started in helping my professor(s) with this.

I had lunch with my supervisor/good friend today and it was very eye-opening. Recently I made a decision at work that was, to say the least, not a good one. I will likely write about this in the future, but I'm still trying to get over being ashamed of how I handled the situation. It's a touchy subject.
Anyway, at lunch, we were talking about someone we both know who, while at work and outside of work, had handled herself in such a way with the clients that we both feel she needed to be let go from her position. Unfortunately or fortunately, she quit her job before anyone found out about her actions, so she was not fired. During this conversation, we began talking about situations that my supervisor knew about from other agencies in which staff members had done ridiculously unethical things: i.e. purchasing drugs from their clients, letting a client drive a staff member's car, dating a client who is twenty years younger than you, etc.
Needless to say, I feel a whole lot less ashamed of what I did after hearing these stories.
I'm glad that things have happened in my career in the way that they have happened. I take every single day as a learning experience and I am blessed to be faced with such a variety of situations. Working with high-risk and homeless youth is a difficult field, but I'm enjoying every minute of it.