I'm totally not sharing my example of school going anxiety, because it isn't a good one. Thankfully, I'm pretty sure it is a huge anomaly and to this day, I couldn't tell you exactly why I was the way I was.
Just call me the computer whisperer.
Willow ,'Lessons'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 02, 2007 10:46:46 am PST #9400 of 10007
Theodosia - Jan 02, 2007 10:47:26 am PST #9401 of 10007
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sounds like your Mom found her own cluestick, Kathy. I think with parents it's particularly hard, because you have to separate "self" from "child" and even as the decades go on, there's still a little unconscious attachment that works its way into attitudes.
Pix - Jan 02, 2007 11:13:05 am PST #9402 of 10007
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Update: This morning's "professional development" may actually have been more painful than the upcoming sexual harassment training. I didn't know that was possible.
NoiseDesign - Jan 02, 2007 11:17:39 am PST #9403 of 10007
Our wings are not tired
Sorry to hear that cutie. Try to have fun at sexual harrasment training.
sarameg - Jan 02, 2007 11:21:51 am PST #9404 of 10007
I've reached the end of the internet and I really really don't want to do a particularly annoying task. And I don't want to clean when I get home. And I really don't want to clear out my cabinets AGAIN this week.
I just don't wanna.
Nutty - Jan 02, 2007 11:22:41 am PST #9405 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My company sponsored me for a whole day of diversity training, which includes gender/sex/sexuality sensitivity. For a whole day. At least they fed us, but, being who we are, 80% of the room showed up thinking it would be a diversity hiring best practices session, and the other 20% showed up hoping to air gripes about the one smoker on the floor who hacks up a lung every afternoon. (It's not that she smokes; it's that she goes outside and smokes and comes back inside and coughs like your grandma does 30 seconds before you dial 911.)
I wrote a very frank assessment at the end that said, "There has got to be a way to test out of this class, because that was incredibly boring and condescending."
Haven't been fired yet!
Lee - Jan 02, 2007 11:25:23 am PST #9406 of 10007
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I just don't wanna.
Me either.
Wanna go to Vegas instead?
sarameg - Jan 02, 2007 11:27:02 am PST #9407 of 10007
Is it warm there right now?
msbelle - Jan 02, 2007 11:27:18 am PST #9408 of 10007
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mac report: he has been picked up. Was all smiles and happy. Has proclaimed school "fun". Is voluntarily doing "homework" (I put this in quotes because what the hell is K homework) so it will be all done for his teacher tomorrow. I did not get to talk with him as my mom thought it might pull him from happy to whining. 34 minutes until I leave. 1:34 until I am home to hug him. ijs.
Liese S. - Jan 02, 2007 11:28:07 am PST #9409 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww! Cutiehead family story!