Third Week Home

This week started off with me attending my local National Federation of the Blind (NFB) meeting to discuss issues in the local community related to blindness. A hot topic during this meeting had to do with a national hockey league referee that was riding his bike down Route 66 to raise money for Braille Literacy from Santa Monica to Chicago.

On Monday of this week, I attended the New Student Orientation that my office was hosting for our incoming students. Eve was able to get me from my office to the student union where this event was being held without any issues. During the event she settled herself under my chair and took a nap. Once this event ended, we headed back to my office to meet our ride to go home. 

Presentation from the new student orientation.

On Tuesday of this week, I attended my advising meeting for the semester along with an interview with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to potentially be a student representative on the commission. Both meetings were productive, and I got a lot of questions answered. 

On Wednesday of this week, I attended a mandatory emergency preparedness training. As a result of this training happening in the afternoon when we had a week of 90-degree temperatures I had to use Eve’s booties for the first time. I was quite proud of myself for being able to put them on all on my own. After I put them on my coworkers told me that Eve had a death stair on me as she was not happy to have them on. 

Later in this week I found out that the job I had interviewed for in Los Angeles, a few weeks prior, I did not get but I was not disappointed about it as other opportunities would come my way. 

At the end of this week Eve started stopping randomly when there were no obstacles in our path. When this first happened the only thing, I could think to do was an obedience routine with a series of sit’s, downs, and placing her in a heel. This seemed to work, and we were on our way.