I force myself not to work on Friday and that is a challenge. I always end up spending a little time in the office cleaning up or organizing or answering phonecalls. Somehow not working every day does not feel quite right. It was odd that Sharon found someone to rent the office two days a week and suddenly I felt totally uncertain about sharing my space with someone else. I was worried about privacy rules regarding my patients and their charts and I hated someone else using my desk or occupying my space. I did not like that I did not know the person, that he just answered an ad on Craig's List, that he was not a psychiatrist or psychologist. I called Sharon and voiced my objections and also disagreed that I had to pay $20 extra a day for the space because I am a psychiatrist. Why is the space cheaper for a therapist if it is the same space I use? I ended up agreeing to pay the cost of the office at the therapist price but for the whole five days. I fear that Sharon is less than happy with me. I am fired up because I am learning that the Resource Group, where I worked for five years, used fraudulent billing practices, stole thousands from me each year, and now I must decide whether I want to pursue legal action or let it all go and be peaceful about it. I am upset with myself because I knew for years that the billing person was not doing a good job, but I presumed it was incompetence. I learned when I returned from Ecuador that she was embezzling money from the practice, but I have learned little else, since the administrator does not wish to reveal any details to me. It's a mess, and impacts my daily life, partly because when my patients call the Resource Group they are often told that I am no longer there but that no one knows where I am....anyway, I think Sharon got a dose of all my frustration and irritability about the decision regarding legal action, and I do not want to be stepped on or taken advantage of ever again.
For my day off, I found myself super active, with a pilates mat and reformer class and a power yoga class, which felt wonderful. I met Eric at Hopkins and drove him to the airport to catch his plane to the Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. I wish I was going with him. We once went to one of my meetings together with Maya when she was an infant and stayed at the Del Coronado, which is a lovely beachside hotel, and enjoyed exploring San Diego. Eric will see the inside of his hotel room and the convention center and likely little else.
Maya and I went to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the evening. We rushed from ballet home, changed, ate standing up and Maya practiced a little violin too, before Julien showed up with Belina and her friend Lydia. Julien knows where to park and got a comp ticket for the show, while the children and I got rush tickets. Julien stayed in the Orchestra close to the stage while the children and I climbed to the tippy top of the auditorium. The acoustics were fine. A pianist from Macedonia played the Prokofiev concerto and was amazing. I came for the Eroica from Beethoven, but it was a little different from what I am used to and did not move me as I expected it to. After the concert we all went backstage and met several musicians as well as the conductor Marin Alsop. Julien is a conductor and trained at Peabody, so he knew all the musicians by first name. It was fun going backstage, but the children were exhausted. Maya was a delight during the concert, but Belina did not enjoy it and wanted to leave after the first movement and expressed her displeasure all through the concert. Next time, it will be just Maya and me, although Eric would sleep through it all and might enjoy that.
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