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Aug. 29th, 2019 09:05 amMy job is starting to actually seem real, now. I've signed a lot (a lot) of paperwork, have seen what will probably be my office, and gotten a starting date (September 9).
One of the most seductive aspects of my work is that I have an obligation to acquire toys. I cannot express how much I love this. I have a lot (a lot) of sensory and fidget toys from my recent work with adolescents, ranging from fidget spinners and a variety of different-feeling stress balls to kinetic sand, faux orbees, and home-made aroma jars. I have some games (but need more) from my in-home therapy days. But I need toys for younger kids, and this is awesome.
Ebay is my friend, here. I have already ordered a mini over-the-door basketball hoop and ball, and I already have a lot of finger and hand puppets. I have some beading supplies, and can get more on, yes, Ebay, so that's okay. I would like to have more craft supplies, but that gets costy - the site director has promised me art supplies, and I'll see if I can press her (or my immediate supervisor) to Sculpey.
Oh! And the site director is getting me a biggish white board. This is extra awesome. In my internship, there was a huge whiteboard in the room, and it was the single therapeutic tool that every single kid I saw used. Me, I'm sort of meh on whiteboards; I don't like the smell of the markers, or the half-hearted way they usually write on the boards. But the whiteboard was really, really important, and I was ready to get one of those vinyl decal ones to put on the wall, because I can't afford a big one, so I'm very happy that I'm going to get a proper one instead.
What I really need are dolls, and what I discovered in my internship is that the best option for dolls - not baby dolls, although I'd like to have one or two of those too, but dolls you can use to play out scenes and stories - is Lego Friends. Again, I'm a little meh about them, in my own world. I think the mindset that produced them is sexist. But the fact is that I can get five dolls for ~$15, if I shop carefully, and get sets and props, too, and even, possibly, a doll's house. (On the whole, I think I'm better off with a kitchen set and a bedroom set and a desk than having it all put together into a house, because the big sets get very brittle and fiddly and hard to maneuver the dolls through.) That's about 5x cheaper, minimum, than I'd get with any other kinds of dolls, and I know from my internship that kids will play with them - girls more than boys, but not exclusively.
The only problem is, I want to have most/a lot of the stuff I'm going to need before I see clients, and yet, I don't get paid until after.
Alas.
But, damn, this is fun.
One of the most seductive aspects of my work is that I have an obligation to acquire toys. I cannot express how much I love this. I have a lot (a lot) of sensory and fidget toys from my recent work with adolescents, ranging from fidget spinners and a variety of different-feeling stress balls to kinetic sand, faux orbees, and home-made aroma jars. I have some games (but need more) from my in-home therapy days. But I need toys for younger kids, and this is awesome.
Ebay is my friend, here. I have already ordered a mini over-the-door basketball hoop and ball, and I already have a lot of finger and hand puppets. I have some beading supplies, and can get more on, yes, Ebay, so that's okay. I would like to have more craft supplies, but that gets costy - the site director has promised me art supplies, and I'll see if I can press her (or my immediate supervisor) to Sculpey.
Oh! And the site director is getting me a biggish white board. This is extra awesome. In my internship, there was a huge whiteboard in the room, and it was the single therapeutic tool that every single kid I saw used. Me, I'm sort of meh on whiteboards; I don't like the smell of the markers, or the half-hearted way they usually write on the boards. But the whiteboard was really, really important, and I was ready to get one of those vinyl decal ones to put on the wall, because I can't afford a big one, so I'm very happy that I'm going to get a proper one instead.
What I really need are dolls, and what I discovered in my internship is that the best option for dolls - not baby dolls, although I'd like to have one or two of those too, but dolls you can use to play out scenes and stories - is Lego Friends. Again, I'm a little meh about them, in my own world. I think the mindset that produced them is sexist. But the fact is that I can get five dolls for ~$15, if I shop carefully, and get sets and props, too, and even, possibly, a doll's house. (On the whole, I think I'm better off with a kitchen set and a bedroom set and a desk than having it all put together into a house, because the big sets get very brittle and fiddly and hard to maneuver the dolls through.) That's about 5x cheaper, minimum, than I'd get with any other kinds of dolls, and I know from my internship that kids will play with them - girls more than boys, but not exclusively.
The only problem is, I want to have most/a lot of the stuff I'm going to need before I see clients, and yet, I don't get paid until after.
Alas.
But, damn, this is fun.