'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Has he taken his shi...yes, yes he has. Just not on this ep.
I don't love facial hair on a man, but I am fascinated with his. I think I have mentioned it before. Also, he has long ass legs.
Ok, enough objectifying.
Co-star is a very pretty woman, but I find her kind of forgettable. Can she please torture someone already? I want them both to be more bad-ass, please.
Yay, Perkins!
Yay, miners!
but Jesse, you live in Boston now, isn't it required? Don't they have one every like 50 yards?
I have been to Dunkin, but not for donuts. Just coffee, and the occasional emergency "bagel."
I'm not even a librarian and I want this t-shirt: [link]
So I'm back from taking Taylor and her mom home. Had a really lovely time. Met a lot of her friends from the summer leadership program and got a chance to talk a lot to her mom. The funny thing is, she knows me. All those years she was in a nursing home, she was hearing about me daily from Taylor and her dad. And yet, I know very little about her, so it was nice to learn more. She grew up in the ghetto, raised by a single mom with substance abuse issues. She ended up raising her 6 younger brothers and a niece pretty much by herself, managed to graduate from high school, even if she had to repeat a year. Worked to put and keep herself in school.
She was a nurse (which I never knew, so Taylor's not the first to go to college, just the first to go straight from high school supported by an intact family) and then EMT and had just passed a test to become the kind of EMS worker who could give controlled substances when she was in the accident that sent her into long term recovery that meant regular surgery almost every six months for something like 8 years. She loved her work, but really can't do it anymore, but there is no bitterness there. She's just planning to try something else.
I shouldn't be surprised Taylor's such an awesome kid. Even when her mother couldn't physically be there for her, she's one hell of a role model.
(Also? It's really touching that when Taylor introduced me to people as "Ms. Sara, my mentor" eyes would light up with recognition. The woman who made sure Taylor got into this program HUGGED ME. )
Taylor and her mentor are both made of AWESOME.
That's awesome.
OMG WE GET INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING!!
That's really great, sara.
And weehoo no thyroid cancer!!
sara's story made me sniffly.
Sorry Dana for the crappy day.
I am so tired. Gah. How come conferencing with students all day is so tiring?