Matilda did not get into School of the Arts.
She's crying in her bedroom now.
This sucks.
I just feel so heartsick for her. She's such a good person and deserves good things.
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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DavidS - Mar 20, 2020 4:12:46 pm PDT #18254 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Mar 20, 2020 4:22:11 pm PDT #18255 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{Matilda}}} I'm sorry, that's heartbreaking.
Laura - Mar 20, 2020 4:23:20 pm PDT #18256 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Oh I'm sorry. It is so hard to watch your child in pain. The worst.
Jesse - Mar 20, 2020 4:42:13 pm PDT #18257 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Poor Matilda! That is heartbreaking.
-t - Mar 20, 2020 4:43:40 pm PDT #18258 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh no! I was sure she would. I'm so sorry.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 20, 2020 4:45:45 pm PDT #18259 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh no! Poor Matilda!
meara - Mar 20, 2020 4:50:38 pm PDT #18260 of 30019
Aw, poor Matilda. Does she know about her friends yet? That's so rough. I hope at least some folks she knows and likes will go to her high school that she ends up at. :(
DavidS - Mar 20, 2020 4:54:06 pm PDT #18261 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does she know about her friends yet?
Of her two closest friends who also applied (out of many friends) one got in, and the other did not (she's gutted).
I walked by her room and I could hear her talking on the phone. She wasn't crying and sounded calm, so I listened briefly through the door.
And I heard Emmett's voice talking to her, warm, and reasonable and kind.
She called her Emmett when she was sad.
JZ - Mar 20, 2020 5:02:38 pm PDT #18262 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
She called her Emmett when she was sad.
They are each other's best human. I still can't believe how lucky we were to form this family.
I'm gutted for her--and right now I can't even hug her, because I've got a dry cough and lightheaded/spacey headache spells and a climbing fever. I knew I was a little warm so I self-isolated, and then while Hec was at the pharmacy getting just-in-case supplies she plaintively called through the bedroom door to ask if I could check for the email.
And it was a no, and she *needed* to know and I couldn't not tell her, and I could just feel her crumbling and wobbling away, and I couldn't even hug her.
I know it's my own alma mater and going there made me who I am and I'm infinitely grateful, but right now I want to find out the home addresses of everyone on the admissions committee and go lick their doorknobs.
sj - Mar 20, 2020 5:04:07 pm PDT #18263 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Emmett and Matilda have such a lovely sibling relationship. It makes my heart happy every time. I hear about it.