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Feb. 5th, 2003 05:39 pmWork wasn't too bad today. I cast a bunch more minis. Looks like production is going to pick up quite a bit before too long. We'll be making lots of figs for the upcoming game that I can't talk about. Hehe.
Sent some words of encouragement (I hope) to a guy on the Kenzerco message boards. I never read the things myself, but Jolly Blackburn, the Knights of the Dinner Table creator and apparently rather nice guy, brought the thread to everyone's attention. Anyway, seems a guy going by Mr. Thou (hehe, I'm a Final Fantasy fan too!) has dropped out of high school in order to pursue a GED or other means of education. The reason: bullying. He said he was in the one class of the day wherein he usually didn't have to deal with it when someone started throwing things at him. As more people began bouncing stuff off of his back, he realized he just couldn't deal with it anymore, so he walked out. The next day he went back and thanked all the teachers who had actually been decent to him, and told them he was dropping out.
Some people on the boards told him it was a bad idea. The problem with that I think, is that the people offering that advice really don't know what it's like. My school experience was pretty bad too. In fact it thouroughly sucked. I had no friends and was picked on constantly. I couldn't make friends with the other outcasts because I never learned to recognize them as such, in part because my memory for faces is so bad that I could never be sure if I was seeing the same people day to day. If I had, I probably wouldn't have known how to make friends with them anyway, since I had no experience. This is part of why I'm bad with people.
I told Mr. Thou that he's probably the only person with enough information to fully analyze his situation, and that if he thinks the best way for him to go is to drop out and seek other options, then he should by all means go for it. It's certainly better than staying in an unbearable situation being under constant terrible stress for the rest of his school days. That is the sort of thing that drives wonderful, interesting people to suicide or worse. I hope everything works out for him.
Off to the pickup rehearsal for Cuckoo's Nest tonight. One more weekend and it'll be done. It's been.... an experience. Overall I'm glad I was part of it, but I'll be happy when it's over.
Sent some words of encouragement (I hope) to a guy on the Kenzerco message boards. I never read the things myself, but Jolly Blackburn, the Knights of the Dinner Table creator and apparently rather nice guy, brought the thread to everyone's attention. Anyway, seems a guy going by Mr. Thou (hehe, I'm a Final Fantasy fan too!) has dropped out of high school in order to pursue a GED or other means of education. The reason: bullying. He said he was in the one class of the day wherein he usually didn't have to deal with it when someone started throwing things at him. As more people began bouncing stuff off of his back, he realized he just couldn't deal with it anymore, so he walked out. The next day he went back and thanked all the teachers who had actually been decent to him, and told them he was dropping out.
Some people on the boards told him it was a bad idea. The problem with that I think, is that the people offering that advice really don't know what it's like. My school experience was pretty bad too. In fact it thouroughly sucked. I had no friends and was picked on constantly. I couldn't make friends with the other outcasts because I never learned to recognize them as such, in part because my memory for faces is so bad that I could never be sure if I was seeing the same people day to day. If I had, I probably wouldn't have known how to make friends with them anyway, since I had no experience. This is part of why I'm bad with people.
I told Mr. Thou that he's probably the only person with enough information to fully analyze his situation, and that if he thinks the best way for him to go is to drop out and seek other options, then he should by all means go for it. It's certainly better than staying in an unbearable situation being under constant terrible stress for the rest of his school days. That is the sort of thing that drives wonderful, interesting people to suicide or worse. I hope everything works out for him.
Off to the pickup rehearsal for Cuckoo's Nest tonight. One more weekend and it'll be done. It's been.... an experience. Overall I'm glad I was part of it, but I'll be happy when it's over.
