So
So I've noticed that I have the bad habit of starting most things I write with the word "so." Not sure how it got started that way, but it seems to be similar to my over-use of ellipses and the suffix "-ish." I'm not sure I really care one way or the other about any of the above. We shall see in times to come.
I went to the thrift store yesterday to get some actual winter pants as most of my pants are thin and just not up to a desert winter. While there, I ran into my high school guidance counselor - and she immediately recognised me! It's been sixteen years since I graduated from high school, and she still knew me. More, she was still =proud= of me, and somehow knew about my bachelor's degree (though not about the grad school). We talked for awhile and I told her about being stuck living at my mom's, and she said, "Of course you don't like having to rely on someone else - you were an independent little bitch clear back at Mojave [my high school]!" (To which, of course, I replied "Well, now I'm just a =bigger= bitch...")
It felt really good to someone who actually feels proud of me - and even still believes in me, too. She said she knew I'd get back into grad school one day when I can handle it again, and shouldn't worry about it so much.
It was pretty much exactly what I needed.
I went to the thrift store yesterday to get some actual winter pants as most of my pants are thin and just not up to a desert winter. While there, I ran into my high school guidance counselor - and she immediately recognised me! It's been sixteen years since I graduated from high school, and she still knew me. More, she was still =proud= of me, and somehow knew about my bachelor's degree (though not about the grad school). We talked for awhile and I told her about being stuck living at my mom's, and she said, "Of course you don't like having to rely on someone else - you were an independent little bitch clear back at Mojave [my high school]!" (To which, of course, I replied "Well, now I'm just a =bigger= bitch...")
It felt really good to someone who actually feels proud of me - and even still believes in me, too. She said she knew I'd get back into grad school one day when I can handle it again, and shouldn't worry about it so much.
It was pretty much exactly what I needed.