OTOH, they let you into Samohi early. I asked them to do the same with me,
citing your case as precedent, but I was told that you were a "special
case," and that's why you got the get-out-of-Lincoln-early card. I was all
like "I'm just as special, goddammit, and I hate it here, too! What do you
want me to DO to PROVE it to you?"
Special, yes--but not special enough. FWIW, I think she was pretty
supportive of Emily.
--J
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:21 PM, jack Watt <jacks6cats_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wow. Carol. It was in her journalism class at Lincoln that I had debris
> thrown at me for being "different". Somehow I ended up in the counselors
> office and I seemed to be in trouble. A bit confusing since I was the
> target not the perpetrator, but hey thems was the "good ole days".
> JACK
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joy McCann <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com <joy.mccann%40gmail.com>>
> To: OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com<OliveStarlightOrchestra%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 4:02:37 PM
> Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Hello from Carol (McGonigle) Jago
>
> Sez Carol:
> "I really can't thank you enough for sending me all this information and
> these links to OSO lives, Joy. Gives me goosebumps to see what everyone has
> achieved. I confess I still think of you all as 10th graders writing poems
> about the Odyssey. Or Sandy Levin as an eighth grader in a summer dance
> class. I feel so fortunate to have been a small part of all you have
> become.
> Truly, I am looking forward to being past-president of NCTE. The role is
> mostly whank, but I get invited to do interesting work like the NEA forum.
> And, yes, I will always push that rock up a hill - call me Ms. Sisyphus -
> when it comes to reading."
>
> * * *
>
> I put together a sort of status list for her, based on the one I posted for
> Bill; she was pretty stoked about it. She's no longer connected to Samo,
> but
> remains good friends with Chris Shaver, to whom she forwarded my
> note/update.
>
> I had suggested that she stop encouraging literacy among today's youth's
> and
> either promote something wholesome (e.g., heroin), or renumerative
> (engineering/ computer analysis/cleaning toilets). But you know that
> generation; one cannot get through to them at all.
>
> Anyway, I'm glad that she's proud of us. Somehow it makes a difference . .
> .
>
> --J
>
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