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Jun. 8th, 2021 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kara_mckayThis past week, I applied for a graduate program at the local college where I got my BA. Whether I can actually enroll and register depends entirely on whether I can get a graduate assistant position, but, hey, you never know until you try. I hope I get it, but in all honesty, I won't be heart broken if I don't. I guess we'll see.
The weekend was hot, but not as hot as predicted, so that's a good thing. We've had rain for the past couple days, and it smells wonderful, but I'm worried it will segue into hazy, humid, heat for the remainder of the week. I still feel like it got hot way too early this year, even taking that one week of colder temperatures into account. I'm worried that late June and July will be unbearable. Maybe I should try a little harder to live in the present instead of looking ahead to mid summer miseries that are, after all, pretty well unavoidable.
I saw my psychiatrist yesterday, and his nurse practitioner is asking him to consider non-amphetamine ADHD meds for me. This is not a new idea for me, but it's a new one for them. My last shrink wouldn't really listen to me when I tried to explain to him that I have a lot of trouble with focus and concentration, but this one arrived at that conclusion on her own. I've found that things run more smoothly when they feel like they're the ones figuring things out and explaining them to you, so I'm feeling relatively hopeful about where this is going. I've got another appointment in two weeks, and hopefully I'll be able to try out a new med after that. Just being able to do anything steadily, and to move smoothly from one thing to the next, would be a great help to me.
Nothing else too exciting happened last week. If you'd like to catch up with the day-to-day, though, and see more flower pictures, here's the link: www.pillowfort.social/Kara_McKay
The weekend was hot, but not as hot as predicted, so that's a good thing. We've had rain for the past couple days, and it smells wonderful, but I'm worried it will segue into hazy, humid, heat for the remainder of the week. I still feel like it got hot way too early this year, even taking that one week of colder temperatures into account. I'm worried that late June and July will be unbearable. Maybe I should try a little harder to live in the present instead of looking ahead to mid summer miseries that are, after all, pretty well unavoidable.
I saw my psychiatrist yesterday, and his nurse practitioner is asking him to consider non-amphetamine ADHD meds for me. This is not a new idea for me, but it's a new one for them. My last shrink wouldn't really listen to me when I tried to explain to him that I have a lot of trouble with focus and concentration, but this one arrived at that conclusion on her own. I've found that things run more smoothly when they feel like they're the ones figuring things out and explaining them to you, so I'm feeling relatively hopeful about where this is going. I've got another appointment in two weeks, and hopefully I'll be able to try out a new med after that. Just being able to do anything steadily, and to move smoothly from one thing to the next, would be a great help to me.
Nothing else too exciting happened last week. If you'd like to catch up with the day-to-day, though, and see more flower pictures, here's the link: www.pillowfort.social/Kara_McKay
