Monday Mission

1. When was the last time you went out with a true love of yours? What did you two do that made it so special? Ha! I can't answer this question! I've not had one, yet

2. Which far-away friend would you most like to see again? Laura, since I didn't get to call her goodbye and she's now on her way to Australia. Tamm, since we spent about 20 mintues together total 3 years ago in NY. I'm sure there's more.

3. Any high or low points about this past weekend? What went on? Well, that I was going to work on my room and just didn't get around to it.

4. I've been thinking about getting a buzz-cut for the summer, a big change for me. Have you ever made any drastic changes to your appearance? Bleach blonde hair in 10^th and 11^th grade. After the second painful bleaching, I nixed the blonde forever.

5. How long do you think a couple should date before they get married? Or if you are married, do you think you should have waited longer to get hitched? I wish I knew. I guess it varries for people. I might want to date for about 1½ years. But I haven't been at the point where I can really decided, yet.

6. I just found out my long-time friend does not like Star Wars (!) and has only seen the original 1977 movie! Have you ever discovered anything new or shocking about a long-time friend you thought you knew everything about? Nah, I haven't, yet.

7. Well we had a nice picnic and saw the sunset, but now it's dark and I think we should liven things up. Let's call some of your friends and go out. Who do you want to invite and where should we all go? Well, this is hard. I can't think of who to call but I'd say let's go bowling and/or Putt-Putt!

BONUS: Why can't ya be good to me? Sorry, can't recall this song!

Monday Memories

Do you have a memory about a particular pair of shoes?

I had these red shoes my mother bought when I was 9. I loved them at first. I wore them to school one day, and my 3^rd grade teacher, Mrs. Colborn, took me aside at the end of the day and told me never to wear them to school again. She was mean about it, too. A few days later, I couldn't find my shoes I was allowed to wear to school. I could only find the red. My mother wrote a note explaining I couldn't find my shoes and the red ones were all I had for that day. By the way, this was a Friday. Well, Mrs. Colborn sent me to the principal's office over the note and shoes. Those red shoes I wore to school - they weren't going to kill anyone. They were shoes. Nothing more. They weren't worth sending a child to the principal's office over. They weren't worth sending a good child to a childhood of fearing the principal's office in the future when the child did nothing wrong. They weren't worth a child being scarred for a while after having a nun calling said child a liar. Is there anything lower than a nun calling a child a liar? Yes, the Nun, Sister Ruth, call me a liar. She let me have it and made me feel like crap. I spent the whole day at school in fear and wanting to cry. For a 9-year-old that wasn't a trouble maker, it was shocking. I didn't tell me mother about it until 10 at night that Friday. I was too afraid and embarassed. My mother wanted to rip the nun's head off for calling me a liar. My mother knew I wasn't a lair. My mother got on me for not telling her sooner. The Monday following, my mother went to the office at the school to let the nun have it. But the nun would not see her. Bitch nun. My mother was already deciding not to send us back to St. Mary's and this shoe thing helped iced the cake.

Well, I'd love to ask Mrs. Colborn how she could love a 8/9-year-old child one moment and seem to hate her another moment. I saw her son in the Augusta phone book when I was up there. Part of me wanted to call and ask about his mother. But I didn't know him in school and it would have been odd calling a kid I didn't know. But I do wonder about her. I have a few other things

Posted by Shawn at May 20, 2002 11:41 AM in Monday Mission, Other Memes.