I made a decision this week to go for graduate school. I've been researching graduate programs in Counseling Psychology in the state of Washington. There are many great private schools in the Seattle area: Pacific Lutheran, Seattle University, Antioch, etc., but Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, the state agency which would pay for my tuition as a disabled person, insists that they will only pay for state schools, which seems fair enough.

I have been looking at outreach programs from state schools around the state, but I finally nailed down the program that I would most want: the University of Washington's Ed. Psych. program, which has both a Masters and PhD. program. I don't currently want to get a doctorate, but that could change as I get more comfortable with being back in school, it's been 25 years since I got my BA, so academia feels strange, and it has many quirks, I don't like, like the Political Correctness crap that gets in the way of my version of truth and reality.

However, I'd have to deal with PC people anyway, since they are so unfortunately numerous. I cannot stand the fact that one must walk on eggshells to avoid giving offense to people whom are not even the persons supposedly offended. The PC police watch over the oppressed, but in reality could not give two shits about the people they are supposedly protecting. I know. I am one of those people, the oppressed and I have been most vigorously oppressed by my supposed protectors who work such short hours as social workers, etc. and in reality could not give a rat's ass if I'm homeless, dead under a bridge, or starving. Fuck them.

I am going back to school to become one of them, and I can kick ass as a social worker or counselor or therapist, because I am one of the disabled they so love to embrace but rarely serve with any alacrity or effectiveness. I can be good.

Bel, I think you know what I'm talking about, and Avant-Garde, I know you do.