long-overdue update
I haven't entered anything here in a long time, because I had some personal issues to deal with. Not because of a lack of crazy stories. As an apology, I give you the following true story.

We got a new client in late February. This woman (call her "Judy") had the habit of dying her hair--ALL of her hair--neon cartoon colors. She would have red hair one day, blue the next, green the day after. She also died her eyebrows and pubic hair. When she first arrived she had orange hair. Do you know how freaky it is to talk to someone with orange eyebrows? Anyway, she would ask staff and other clients, "Do you want to see my orange critter?" If they answered, "Yes," she would drop her pants.

We did get her to stop this behavior, by threatening that we would no longer let her have Kool-Aid packets (which is what she used to color her hair). So she stopped. But one day in the TV lounge a fight broke out between Judy and another client.

Apparently, the clients were watching re-runs of the old TV show "Angel." One of the main character turns into a blue-haired monster of some kind in one of the episodes. (See a picture here.) One of the clients, after the show was over, confronted Judy, trying to exorcise her demon, despite the fact that Judy has no resemblence to the woman in the TV show whatsoever, except for the blue hair. (This is the second time that one client has tried to exorcise another. How bizarre.)

Anyway, it evolved into a full-on fight. Judy and the other client were both escorted off our property and to the Happy Hospital by police.

How was your month?
- posted by not_jane_addams @ 11:57 AM