Chief Counselor's Log #6 - Business As Usual?

Posted on 01 Nov 2012 @ 1:49am by Lieutenant JG Delainey Carlisle

377 words; about a 2 minute read

So I thought God was teaching me a lesson, but now I'm pretty sure he's just having a giant belly laugh at my expense. Before I came to the Galileo, I got a lot of ribbing for being assigned to 'boring' science ship. If only my friends and colleagues could see me now... If I weren't a counselor and a senior counselor at that, I might just punch the first person I see who tries that line on me now. God is guffawing indeed.

I've already shared the anything but boring combat and boarding by the Klingons, and now I can add crash landing to the list. Not just any crash landing, mind you, but the crash of the entire ship. The entire ship! I still can't wrap my mind around the event itself, never mind the nearly indescribable chaos that was treating the injured. This time, I was able to do more than act like a frozen bump on a log at least, and I have Andreus Kohl and the rest of the medical team to thank for that.

Andreus has managed to help me move beyond my past failings, while at the same time never making me feel less of a professional because of them. He and I have a budding friendship, and it's the sort of thing I never knew I needed until it came along. Our friendship has led me to reflect on my own previously held beliefs about maintaining personal relationships outside my counseling role on a heart level. While I have always understood intellectually the importance of a counselor building and maintaining friendships, recent events and my own struggle to keep my emotions in balance have given me quite the lesson in meaningful application.

My past friends and colleagues, were they ever to read this, would no doubt be surprised to note the Sienna Project is getting only the briefest of mentions in this log. Apparently, the use of experimental technology and consequently, nearly dying because of it, is becoming rather routine now. Evidently, one near death experience per mission is all it takes to peg my freak out meter... Is it progress? I don't know. All I know is I have a crew to sooth and a Captain to visit.

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