Self Sufficient

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5-19-2011

Day 32

  My new T.V. finally got here today. I’m glad I don’t have to ask my cellmates about what’s happening on the news anymore. I guess I’ve always tried to be as self-sufficient as I could possibly be. I don’t like asking other people for things, or to do favors for me. When I do, I feel like I owe them something. That’s going to be the hardest thing for me during my recovery, asking for help. I need to learn to be more comfortable with asking for help instead of thinking I can do everything on my own.

~J. Doe

T.V. = News, Outside Life

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5-4-2011

Day 17

  Today the C.O. came and looked at my T.V.. Once he saw that was wrong with it he had me pack it up and fill out and exchange form on the back of my packing slip. He told me that they would exchange it free of charge and that shipping would be free too. I’m glad they’re doing something about it. It is one of my only accesses to the outside, my source of daily news. I watch very little T.V. outside of the news really. Hopefully it won’t take too long to get my replacement back. Unlike most of the inmates in here, my cellmates follow the rules and keep their headphones plugged into their T.V.s at all times so they don’t disturb one another. I’d rather they kept doing that, but I hate asking what’s going on when I see a headline on the news. I don’t want to bother them all the time. It shouldn’t be too long before I get my new T.V. back anyways. I’ll have more time to read now which is a better way to look at it.

~J.Doe

Optimistic... But my T.V. !!!!!

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4-21-2011

Day 4

  I’m starting to feel a little more optimistic today as I’m getting used to the daily routine. Although I didn’t do as well on today’s pretest as I expected to, I still feel good knowing that I know a lot of the things I was taught in the past AODA programs I’ve completed. This afternoon I found myself quite angry and frustrated. After arriving at MSDF I found my T.V. to be slightly malfunctioning. There was ¼ of the screen that was a slightly different color that the rest of the screen. This afternoon I turned on my T.V. only to find this area to be bright white and unviewable now. So, my T.V. that is one month old, is defective. After checking my paperwork I found it could be exchanged for sixty days, but only if it hadn’t been engraved. So the DOC engraved mine with my DOC number before I even received it and they were the ones handling it’s transportation. Now I’m angry as hell because my T.V. that cost me $210 is screwed up while under someone else’s care and I don’t think there is anything I can do about it. The DOC should reimburse me for the cost of it in my opinion.

(Counselor Note - See me regarding this.)

~J. Doe