Knitting Rut

I am stuck. I don't know why, I don't know when it started, exactly, but I am completely stuck. I don't have much material for blogging because I don't find myself knitting that much. I tried to find a group here in our area to join but all are either defunked or they are over an hours drive away. I think I've just hit my summer dry spell. Maybe just getting this out of my system will make me want to start knitting again. Its not that I am not knitting at all, I am working on Branching Out, and Leo is somewhere in the apartment, the Phildar socks are on my night stand, its like everything is just hovering in the UFO category.

So, obviously, no new pictures of knitting today! But I will try to make a goal for myself to post again and with pictures by the end of this weekend. Its funny how now, when I have more free time than ever during the school year, I can't seem to find the gusto to knit.

I start my family counseling intensive practicum next week. I had to contact the family that has been assigned to me today, and the phone call was very brief. I am really nervous about actually counseling real families. Last semester in my practicum I got to work with kids, but that was mostly under the direct supervision of the counselor I was working with, I was never in the room alone with a client, and even if I had been, it was always individuals, not families. I guess I am anxious about it as we haven't really had any preparation for the experience. We were supposed to have an orientation to the clinic today, but instead that will happen next week, the day that the family is coming in. Jump right in, let me tell ya! I guess this whole self-doubt/nervousness/anxiety thing is normal, but its really uncomfortable. I was enjoying having a little time off, do I have to go back to learning so soon?! Tomorrow I'll be writing a paper for my psychopathology class diagnosing characters in two movies using DSM criteria, what fun! I watched Martha Inc. and 28 days today, both quite good movies, and very interesting to diagnose! :) It will be a fun paper, I just don't know where I am going to find the energy. If I had to diagnose myself I would almost say I fit depressed: not interested in activities I normally enjoy (for the most part), okay, that really is the only one, but it feels crappy!

I need something fresh and new, something to look forward to other than the thought of September when the heat goes away. It could just be my body adjusting to the humidity and general hotness of the weather right now, maybe I'll turn the AC down a notch and see if that helps things!