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It’s been one of those screamingly frustrating years — all of the decisions that seemed excellent and positive and fun have ended up being Not As Sold.
* Rollins — despite all promises to get Alba a library job, we can’t — because we don’t qualify for work study aid. We have tried so many different ways to get Alba into that library job, via friends, via calls to the Rollins departments in charge of it, etc., and zero luck. The only way to get a job in libraries is to have prior experience, and this struck out hard. My email chains about this are massive and frustrating.
* Rollins — one of Alba’s professors has a type of aging disease that makes him forget (1) every assignment he gives (2) how to make a syllabus and assign it (3) how to use any of the necessary online tools for it. This is fully 1/3 of kid’s classes, the basic writing requirement class, and therefore kid is not learning much at all. It’s bullshit, and all of our emails to get kid a _different professor_ have been for nothing. Other classmates have also asked for it to no avail too. Huge waste of money.
* Off-campus kids are not encouraged to join activities. So for example, the Rollins library that kid wanted to join — nope. Can’t even make contact with the team that does the production work. The volunteer page on the website is broken. Tried to email the advisor and he has not been following through at all. This is all, basically, bullshit.
And so… what next? Kid has applied to transfer to a school in Tampa because it has more of the things that kid wants out of a college, including…letting off-campus kids enroll in language classes, and having a library/information science path.
I’m so annoyed we didn’t just do this school to begin with. I feel years behind now, although kid will transfer over with plenty of credits from the AA and the semester at Rollins. The waiting/arranging/preparing bullshit is FRUSTRATING, and it’ll be more expensive. But, c’est la vie, let’s see how this goes.
(It does change my plans for travel and moving out of Florida and stuff. I don’t know how long kid will take in school, now, but I guess it’ll be more fun for them. Sigh.)
Other stuff that’s frustrating: Mayo Clinic.
* My neurosurgeon’s nursing staff keeps _not scheduling me_ for the surgery i am supposed to have in ten days. I would like it scheduled so that I can get it fking done, I hate walking around with this potential bomb in my head, now that I know it’s there.
* Plus I don’t know how many surgeries I’ll need. And this also changes things. Years of surgeries? Months? I want to plan my life, if I don’t have an aneurism first!
October continues to have the weirdest luck for me. Today I had a flat tire while trying to get to a cafe with Alba so that kid can do homework. And so that’s another 500 bucks gone, to replace the back tires.
(Flat is from driving through debris from the storm yesterday, but also the tires were old. I guess I’ll count it as excellent October luck that our house remained totally undamaged from the hurricane, without even a loss of electricity. W H E W. But Alba’s future college in Tampa is completely flooded, which is ridiculous bullshit too.)
Anyway, cheers and l’chaim to whatever comes.
* Rollins — despite all promises to get Alba a library job, we can’t — because we don’t qualify for work study aid. We have tried so many different ways to get Alba into that library job, via friends, via calls to the Rollins departments in charge of it, etc., and zero luck. The only way to get a job in libraries is to have prior experience, and this struck out hard. My email chains about this are massive and frustrating.
* Rollins — one of Alba’s professors has a type of aging disease that makes him forget (1) every assignment he gives (2) how to make a syllabus and assign it (3) how to use any of the necessary online tools for it. This is fully 1/3 of kid’s classes, the basic writing requirement class, and therefore kid is not learning much at all. It’s bullshit, and all of our emails to get kid a _different professor_ have been for nothing. Other classmates have also asked for it to no avail too. Huge waste of money.
* Off-campus kids are not encouraged to join activities. So for example, the Rollins library that kid wanted to join — nope. Can’t even make contact with the team that does the production work. The volunteer page on the website is broken. Tried to email the advisor and he has not been following through at all. This is all, basically, bullshit.
And so… what next? Kid has applied to transfer to a school in Tampa because it has more of the things that kid wants out of a college, including…letting off-campus kids enroll in language classes, and having a library/information science path.
I’m so annoyed we didn’t just do this school to begin with. I feel years behind now, although kid will transfer over with plenty of credits from the AA and the semester at Rollins. The waiting/arranging/preparing bullshit is FRUSTRATING, and it’ll be more expensive. But, c’est la vie, let’s see how this goes.
(It does change my plans for travel and moving out of Florida and stuff. I don’t know how long kid will take in school, now, but I guess it’ll be more fun for them. Sigh.)
Other stuff that’s frustrating: Mayo Clinic.
* My neurosurgeon’s nursing staff keeps _not scheduling me_ for the surgery i am supposed to have in ten days. I would like it scheduled so that I can get it fking done, I hate walking around with this potential bomb in my head, now that I know it’s there.
* Plus I don’t know how many surgeries I’ll need. And this also changes things. Years of surgeries? Months? I want to plan my life, if I don’t have an aneurism first!
October continues to have the weirdest luck for me. Today I had a flat tire while trying to get to a cafe with Alba so that kid can do homework. And so that’s another 500 bucks gone, to replace the back tires.
(Flat is from driving through debris from the storm yesterday, but also the tires were old. I guess I’ll count it as excellent October luck that our house remained totally undamaged from the hurricane, without even a loss of electricity. W H E W. But Alba’s future college in Tampa is completely flooded, which is ridiculous bullshit too.)
Anyway, cheers and l’chaim to whatever comes.