Ok. So I go to this Time Management Seminar for parents, through counselling and learning skills service. Show up a little bit early, no one is there. sit my butt down, pull out my day planner, and start writing stuff down. This is the makeup of the room: there is one young-ish woman sitting with a little boy, spoonfeeding him some lunch. There's a pregnant woman sitting up at the head of the room, and there's an older woman sitting close to her. I figured that the pregnant woman and the woman with the kid were both students, there for the seminar. I think "well, it's a bit of a small group, but that's ok..." Then another woman walks in, and sits down.
So, then the woman who is heavily pregnant speaks up. "Well, I guess we're just about ready to begin. Can we go around and introduce ourselves?" The woman with the kid introduces herself as the woman who is running the time management seminar, and the older woman and the pregnant woman introduce themselves as from the family care office. So I'm still thinking that the last woman that came in is a potential parent... so I say to her: "You go first."
She introduces herself. "Well, I'm a fourth year PhD student, and I don't actually have any children, but I was wondering how people would be able to balance school and children... because I was thinking about having children in the future, and I want to be prepared."
Uh huh. Not only is she probably younger than me, she is infinitely more educated than me and is just doing this to plan ahead. Typical overachieving UT student that can't leave anything up to chance, I guess.
Cut the camera to me. With the snot on my shoulders, and the halo of motherhood that I call my rats' nest of a hairdo, the dark circles under my eyes and my inability to utter a sentence without mentioning my daughter... the most meaningful conversations I have nowadays are about the loggy loggy log and the bear in the big blue house going potty... me, in my "doing the best I can" life, is all of a sudden put on the spot as the only ACTUAL parent needing time management. What is perhaps, a bit ironic, is that I have pretty good time management skills already. It was utterly necessary for me to develop them. So, their time management seminar was useless for the most part, as I just wanted to meet some other parents on campus and succeeded in not meeting a single one. What I did manage to do was depress myself.
What's worse, perhaps is the next person that makes the mistake of talking to me is Ishraq -- he probably thinks I'm shit off nuts, because I just unloaded on him. He was looking at me like "who is this freak, and why is she telling me this?" Which I can't blame him for... lol
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We don't think you're nuts. You've pretty much confirmed it for us :D
I kid, I kid.
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