so apparently it's my fault
2007-03-05 | 10:51 p.m.

Oh, this is just too typical.

The clinical coordinator at McGill still hasn't managed to find me an internship. Fine, it's not an easy job, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it.

First, we were looking in Hamilton. There were lots of hospitals and clinics in Hamilton, so finding something should have been no problem at all, or so I was told. But then, no, that didn't work out. And with that, no, I can't live at home, so I have to rent an apartment somewhere for three months.

Fine.

But, one after another, the numerous possible spots I was open to have fallen through. Guelph. Windsor. Kitchener. Cambridge.

And I have nothing. Nowhere to go.

And in her email informing me of this, the clinical coordinator drops this gem of a line:

Had you been interested in considering not living at home earlier in the school year, perhaps we'd have found something, but at this point, most willing SLPs have already committed to a student.

Excuse me? Who was it who told me finding something in Hamilton would be no problem??

And funny how I was the one who was suggesting places like Kingston, Guelph, Kitchener, Windsor, while she was making all sorts of phone calls to a community care group that I'd already told her I couldn't go with because I don't have a car.

Oh yeah. It's all my fault.

Suddenly, I have a lot less sympathy for her.

Grrrrrrrrrr.

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