Life Update

The college situation I mentioned in 'Power' has been resolved

successfully. The professor had asked if I could drop off P's marked papers

on Friday (which I did); on Tuesday or Wednesday, she emailed to say that

it looked like a 'pass' to her, and there wasn't anything we needed to

worry about. The professor is going to note that those three areas ought to

see some improvement during P's next placement term, but she's letting her

go.

Yay.

I'm relieved, and I feel vindicated (on P's behalf), but I can understand

why she said she just feels kinda weird about it all. It's not much of a

fist-pumping situation to have the world shout "YOU SUUUUUCK" and have it

go "Whoops, sorry, didn't mean that, carry on" a few weeks later. Are we

supposed to cheer? Why did this have to happen in the first place? Our

entwined futures were still riding on someone else's decision, and the

situation working out for P in the end doesn't make the whole situation

suddenly have been okay. She still spent several weeks stewing over the

possibility that one of the few employable talents she has appeared to have

been shat all over. Those feelings aren't going to just disappear.

What is nice, at least, is that yesterday two letters came in the mail

informing her that she made the college's Honour Roll in both her fall and

winter terms. I don't know how much the letters were exaggerating, but

according to them, this is actually quite a distinction. It should look

good on a resume, if nothing else... We'll ask about it sometime. I made

the Dean's List at my university, too, meaning that I maintained an average

of 80% or above (I managed an 83%) for the year.


I'm not going to be able to write a post at all some days, let alone a

long, deep introspective one, but I'm trying. Living life comes first -

documenting it is secondary.