Goals

The internship experience continues interesting and frustrating and clarifying.  Two-thirds through I name my goals.  Two-thirds through I find out that being available MWTh 1-9:30 PM doesn*t mean exactly that I need to be there MWTh 1-9:30 PM.  I was reminded by another intern: Remember you*re an intern.  You*re not being paid for this.  I, of course, have not been paid for a lot of what I do, and was treating intern time like I do any commitment I have made, paid or not.  Now, two-thirds through, I find that it means: Let them know when I won*t be there.  So now I have Monday evenings with my daughter.  A gift.

Two-thirds through the internship

I compile goals.

They have bullet points to match

All the pieces I have already done

With one or two yet to do.

I would not have known

The particular ways of the halfway house

Before I began.

At the beginning, I was asked

Do you have anything in particular

You would like to do?

I said

I*d like to learn whatever I can

About how this place works.

When you don*t know the particulars

It*s hard to know which particular things

Are there.

I did not expect I would eat dinner

Three nights a week

With the guys.

I did not expect ten minutes

Of gratefulness every Wednesday.

I did not expect

Two-thirds through

That I would be so clear

About next steps.