Fourth Week Home
This was quite an eventful week with this week starting off with southern California getting a hurricane, which we had not seen in at least 100 years. In addition to this hurricane the Inland Empire experienced a 5.0 earthquake. Thankfully where I am all we experienced was rolling and no damage.
As a result of the hurricane California State University Long Beach (CSULB) called for a remote workday for non-essential staff for the Monday of this week. I was grateful to be determined as non-essential, as I was not sure how Eve and I would navigate campus, as I know how our campus can flood in bad rainstorms.
Tuesday of this week was the first day of classes at CSULB and my first day of fall semester at San Francisco State University (SFSU). With it being the first day of classes CSULB had close to 30,000 students on campus. Not only did Eve and I have to navigate through all of the students, but I also had my first staff meeting of the semester with my director early that morning. She had the idea to hold our meeting at the campus Coffee Bean. I did not realize the challenges that I would face in getting to this meeting. For a while Eve and I were walking along at a steady pace alongside my co-workers until Eve stopped randomly similar to how she did the previous week. I did an obedience routine similar to the previous week and we were on our way, although a bit late. As we left, Coffee Bean Eve randomly stopped again, but it was worse as she did this in front of my director and the art director. As a result of not wanting to be late to my next meeting I pulled my cane out and put Eve in a heel to make it on time. Once this meeting ended, I knew I would have to send my instructor a text to schedule a call to go through some trouble shooting as I knew I could not continue having Eve stop randomly. This call happened that afternoon shortly before my first class of the semester. After this call I felt refreshed in knowing that I had some tools in the toolbox to get Eve going again if this happened again.
On Wednesday I had a pretty uneventful day at work, that was until I was walking to my paratransit and Eve stopped randomly in front of our campus pub. Before I could do what, I was told to do Eve managed to lay down. I then gave her the command to stand an additional leash correction and we were on our way.
Eve unexpectedly laying down mid route.
On Thursday work was uneventful and Eve was able to get me where I needed to go without incident. The only challenge I faced was figuring out our schedule for when I have class for six hours on Thursday nights. Once my two classes ended, I found out that both of my instructors planned not to use our whole time for lecture, so Eve and I would have much needed breaks in between.
Friday of this week was quite rough for me as I had class until 9:30pm the previous night, but Eve and I made it through.
