JeannieOR
09-29-2003, 12:09 PM
Now that I'm back in school I won't be able to keep up with this forum. I was thinking that it would be cool if I could have a little synopsis of what you all have been up to up to refer back to when I do have time to visit. We could list the major events of last year. Don’t worry; I’m not expecting it to be as long as mine. The neat thing about it is people can go back when they want to and add to it every couple of months.
I'll start:
Sept '02: I go back to college to get my prerecs for nursing school. Unfortunately, I also agree to be PTA president at my kids’ school.
Oct. '02: I'm exhausted; I have an absolute hysterical fit in front of my kids. I feel better when I talk to a couple friends who've returned to school and who've just done the exact same thing. On the up side, I'm enjoying my A&P class. My teacher is a former Doctor who had to give up his practice because of complications from his bipolar disorder. He's a very colorful lecturer. He wants us to call him "Doctor Mark.". During lab one of the students asked if he had any kids and he replied that he and his "male life partner" were having fertility problems.
Nov. '02: I look forward to Thanksgiving with friends instead of my crazy family but the evening ends with a brawl among three of my friends who are involved in a sorted love triangle.
Dec. '02: I'm spending a lot of time with my lab partner in order to prepare our presentation. He is very attractive and interesting. We take the same bus home from class but get so involved in talking we both get on the wrong bus.
Jan. '03: Winter term. I sign up for a different lab session and get a different partner. She is really nice and the only one in class who's actually older than me. She is a 48 year old massage therapist who actually looks great with a bare mid-driff. One of the 30-something male students has a crush on her, but she has a boyfriend.
Feb '03: The school board announces plans to close my kids' school so the TAG school occupying the same building can expand. As PTA president I feel completely useless. Now reporters call and leave messages wanting to hear my opinion. I leave messages for the news reporters but they don't call back. I live outside the school’s boundaries so my children aren't allowed to use the bus next year to go to the school the district picked out for us. Our neighborhood school refuses to admit my children because there obliged to take kids from another school that's slated for closure and they can’t expand because they are sharing their building with a magnet school. AAAAUUUGGGG!
March '03: Still dealing with the pending school closure. Going to meetings with crying, screaming people. I think the other PTA members are mad at me for not doing something about it....maybe I'm crazy!
Apr. '03: My children finally have “official permission” to use the school bus to go to their new school next year. (I really don't understand how the district is saving any money.) I step down as PTA president. I had planned to do this from the beginning and someone from the TAG school had said she'd fill in for me. Still, I feel guilty about it but I'm going to school full time now and it all seems rather pointless anyway.
May '03 School's going well. I've made a lot of friends. I've had to take the same lab class with the guy from fall term. I agree to do the lab project with him again. I have to admit I enjoy his company a bit too much. :\
Summer '03: School is out and I miss that silly guy from my A&P class. My friend's been bringing over way too many bottles of wine lately. One evening, she insists on bleaching my hair. …Great, I've just turned 40 and I look like a roller derby queen! I rest of the summer I spend hiking in the woods and trying to make my hair look normal again.
Fall '03: Back in school again...
I'll start:
Sept '02: I go back to college to get my prerecs for nursing school. Unfortunately, I also agree to be PTA president at my kids’ school.
Oct. '02: I'm exhausted; I have an absolute hysterical fit in front of my kids. I feel better when I talk to a couple friends who've returned to school and who've just done the exact same thing. On the up side, I'm enjoying my A&P class. My teacher is a former Doctor who had to give up his practice because of complications from his bipolar disorder. He's a very colorful lecturer. He wants us to call him "Doctor Mark.". During lab one of the students asked if he had any kids and he replied that he and his "male life partner" were having fertility problems.
Nov. '02: I look forward to Thanksgiving with friends instead of my crazy family but the evening ends with a brawl among three of my friends who are involved in a sorted love triangle.
Dec. '02: I'm spending a lot of time with my lab partner in order to prepare our presentation. He is very attractive and interesting. We take the same bus home from class but get so involved in talking we both get on the wrong bus.
Jan. '03: Winter term. I sign up for a different lab session and get a different partner. She is really nice and the only one in class who's actually older than me. She is a 48 year old massage therapist who actually looks great with a bare mid-driff. One of the 30-something male students has a crush on her, but she has a boyfriend.
Feb '03: The school board announces plans to close my kids' school so the TAG school occupying the same building can expand. As PTA president I feel completely useless. Now reporters call and leave messages wanting to hear my opinion. I leave messages for the news reporters but they don't call back. I live outside the school’s boundaries so my children aren't allowed to use the bus next year to go to the school the district picked out for us. Our neighborhood school refuses to admit my children because there obliged to take kids from another school that's slated for closure and they can’t expand because they are sharing their building with a magnet school. AAAAUUUGGGG!
March '03: Still dealing with the pending school closure. Going to meetings with crying, screaming people. I think the other PTA members are mad at me for not doing something about it....maybe I'm crazy!
Apr. '03: My children finally have “official permission” to use the school bus to go to their new school next year. (I really don't understand how the district is saving any money.) I step down as PTA president. I had planned to do this from the beginning and someone from the TAG school had said she'd fill in for me. Still, I feel guilty about it but I'm going to school full time now and it all seems rather pointless anyway.
May '03 School's going well. I've made a lot of friends. I've had to take the same lab class with the guy from fall term. I agree to do the lab project with him again. I have to admit I enjoy his company a bit too much. :\
Summer '03: School is out and I miss that silly guy from my A&P class. My friend's been bringing over way too many bottles of wine lately. One evening, she insists on bleaching my hair. …Great, I've just turned 40 and I look like a roller derby queen! I rest of the summer I spend hiking in the woods and trying to make my hair look normal again.
Fall '03: Back in school again...