As I check to make sure her tuition is paid and everything is set for her to go back to classes, I thought some of you who are still lurking from the Storm School/Fast Times blog(s) might be interesting in an update. And of course, my mother is lurking (if her Kindle is letting her get here.)
I mentioned tuition, yes she did manage to get registered as a “real” college student and not a dual enrolled college student. It was touch and go for awhile but she made it. She didn’t manage to get the classes she wanted for this quarter, instead she got the classes she had planned to take next quarter.
* Human Sexuality
* Comparative Politics
* American National Govt
She’s had some rough moments, adjusting to living alone and I think she’s probably spent more time sleeping at other people’s houses or having them sleep at hers than she has actually living in her apartment “alone” with her cat. Michelle is an interesting person – she really likes people but she reaches the point where she really must get away and hide in some dark cave and regroup completely and nobody must ever bother her while she’s hiding in that dark cave. I guess that’s what she’s using her apartment for – that dark cave where she can go and regroup and just get away from all of the stupid people. 😉
Michelle is tired of her job, which is really nothing new since she quite a good long while ago and went back because they “needed her”.
Michelle is heading to Charleston this weekend with her sister and “the boy” (who will be in Florida visiting friends) and is planning on seeing her father. Willingly. That’s a first, ok not a first, but a first in a long long while. She’ll fly back to Florida next week, probably to a very empty bank account… she will be able to pay her bills on the 15th, right? 😉
“Michelle is an interesting person – she really likes people but she reaches the point where she really must get away and hide in some dark cave and regroup completely”.
Maybe Michelle and I are sisters. 🙂
I never lived alone. I think it would be scary for me. Modern society aside, I don’t think we are wired to live alone. Our primal instincts tell us that we’re not safe when we’re alone, especially at night.
Of course she will, be able to pay her bills. I also do that dark cave thing. It’s very important.
Living alone for the first time can be a scary thing. Her timing – needing to adapt to being on her own just as you’ve moved way, way far away – probably makes it a little tougher. She hasn’t got the security net of being able to wander over to your place and plop her butt down on the couch when she’s feeling a little disoriented or lonely. She a resourceful and brilliant kid though (takes after her mother that way!) so I’m betting she’ll have a comfortable routine established pretty quickly.