![]() ![]() About a month into the semester and her grandmother passed and they were very close. "I think she was just naive and inexperienced. She was young, it was her first time living away from home, and she seemed perpetually overwhelmed." It was the fall semester, so for many students, it was their first semester at university ever, and I had one student who struggled. "I taught a first-year university course. I'd rather barely scrape by than be financially well off and either in danger or stuck at work all the time not enjoying the fruits of my labor! 40 hours a week is as much as I care to put in (I'd prefer less to be honest)." My job gets me by (barely), but I'm safe and have a good work-life balance. " I bet he started on a rig or in a field, but he looks like a suit and tie guy these days. "The m oney may be nice but I'd rather have a small house than work on an oil rig, that's a dangerous life." I never pictured him in a mansion living the high life." All I can say is growing up, I pictured him in jail or maybe in a trailer park as an adult. ![]() ![]() Financial success doesn't make one a good person. On the surface, he made it and is living the dream." His house is bigger than my yard, by a lot. "Many years later, I saw him on Facebook. He didn't so much as graduate, as was passed on a plea bargain." "In Junior high, he was suspended as often as he was in class it seemed. "When he'd get in trouble, he'd run away from school, and the principal would get in his VW Bug and chase the kid down." He grabbed the boobs of the first girl in our class to have them." Our class criminal was acting out in grade school. Glad I stuck it out because we got there eventually." But my god was she a lot of work some days. Apparently, I became her favorite teacher and I was one of the only ones she would do work for initially. By the end of grade 12, she engaged with people, she could speak in front of the class, and she was completing credits (slowly and with a lot of support), but you could get work out of her. "Did get her to do the lighting for the school show, though. I jokingly suggested she take Drama with me the following year, but she hated speaking in public so figured that was a no-go." "I drug her along through the Arts class and got her participating some days, which was apparently huge because in elementary, she was just left to do nothing all day because she wasn't disruptive. She would fully shut down and just not do anything. "Different school and where I ended up getting a permanent position so I stayed in the same place for a while, had this girl show up in grade nine and had her for Arts and English. Not sure where he's ended up now ten years later, but weed is legal now so as long as he's not dealing, so hopefully he's doing okay." He'd caught up on all his missing credits while in juvie because he 'had nothing better to do so why not get some s**t done.' He was going to now graduate on time and was super proud of himself. "Was subbing back at the school the following year and ran into him. "Anyway, halfway through the semester, he came in and announced it was his last day because he was being sent to juvie and he was upset he wouldn't be able to continue in drama (his other courses they could manage through distance education type things)." "He missed class somewhat frequently for excused absences that were noted as 'court.' I assume mostly weed related. Funny, not super academically inclined, but started to really like drama and we got along." "One of my first ones was a kid who was in my grade 10 drama class. I don't know to this day if he was messing with me, but I'm pretty sure I just told him to Google it. I think he's messing with me and just answer "masturbation." He asks what that is, and if his mom can help him. I explain to him, professionally, that he should ejaculate into the cup we provided. We tell him to go home and bring us back a sample. Teenager comes in, thinks he might be sterile.One patient called a took the "just bring it in, hand deliver it!" directions too literally and tried to shove a handful of semen through the office window. We give them two sterile cups, paper bags, and instructions. Patients have to bring in semen samples post vasectomy to make sure there was no issue with the procedure so we can declare them sterile.It's pretty wild and I have lots of stories (my poor boyfriend), but here are two of my favorites: Yes!!! This is going to get buried, but I worked in a urologist's office for a long time. ![]()
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