There are some days where our minds just fail to work - usually, it is a Monday. Within these days, there are also moments where our minds fail to the point of amusement and Ryan Award nomination. Named in homage to the great band that brought to us the great (and applicable) song: Where Is My Mind? The nominees for the 2008 Pixie Award are (and it's no longer a lay-up for Stormin'):
Carrie Pipkin, former Access Coordinator
It was a Monday and Carrie was standing puzzled in front of the mailboxes. When asked what was wrong, she said she couldn't find someone's box. I told her that they were some what alphabetical and that didn't help either. I asked her what the name was and she replied: "Owen Wilson." I replied that he didn't have a mailbox here because Owen Wilson is a famed Hollywood actor... Owen Gibson is the Day Treatment manager to which she sought. It was a lot funnier in person.
Autumn Bowlby (Worman), Asst. Program Mgr (Case Manager)
Stormin'-former-Worman earned her nomination through an interaction we had when discussing Self-Addressed Stamp Envelopes (SASE) for returning surveys from clients and their families. When I explained the process, culminating with the accordion-like folding of the SASE so that it would fit inside of the initial envelope, Stormin paused and asked if it would just be able to slide right in, because they were the same size. We then discussed the laws of matter, spacial realism and how two items of equal size cannot occupy the same equal space -- it cannot be done. Or at least not in this universe or slice of universe that scientists claim to know, even though, we have probably only seen less than a fraction of a percent of the universe that we know about and ergo, really, know nothing about.
Greg Baron, Skills Trainer
It is not uncommon for a Skills Trainer (on the course of the job) to challenge rivals in the children and within their selves; but they usually win those challenges. That was not the case with Grigori who managed to get into a fight with shrubbery... and lose. In an attempt to show one of the kids that community service was good and that shrubbery could be a nuisance to society, ol' Grigori decided to fight said shrubbery. Not taking kindly to the unjustified and unnecessary attack, the shrubbery fought back and managed to cause potentially serious damage to Grig's eye, forcing him to miss work and lose what little bit of established masculinity that he had stored up in the office. Moral of the story: If it's green, watch the head- it will go for the kill.
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2 comments:
Autumn- I would prepare a speech for this one...
They both were great stories... compelling and rich.
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