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[Half Mar]

Lost a good friend yesterday.

I'm so sorry... *hugs*

[slyvia k]

sorry brooke may your friend r.i.p.

[Savannah]

I'm so sorry for your loss Ag, may s/he rest in peace.

[lentower]

Lost a good friend yesterday.

there are never words ...

best to you and all who knew this friend

[lentower]

So apparently my sister's knee is worse than they'd thought and the plan has now gone from a relatively simple surgery to a much longer more complicated one during which they'll open up her knee completely and replace the ligaments or something which means she'll have to go through about 9 months of revalidation and training and she probably won't be able to pass her final year of secondary school this year so she'll have to do it next year.

: - {{{{{

if she has to delay her final year,
she might do the reading for that year,
and maybe even things useful to read, if she's going to college.

will help her breeze through the year, when she dpes do it.

i assume she will talk with the local school officials about doing it from home.
though her rehab might not leave her the time or energy.

[Pandora]

Lost a good friend yesterday.

I am so incredibly sorry for your loss. I don't even know what else to say.

So apparently my sister's knee is worse than they'd thought and the plan has now gone from a relatively simple surgery to a much longer more complicated one during which they'll open up her knee completely and replace the ligaments or something which means she'll have to go through about 9 months of revalidation and training and she probably won't be able to pass her final year of secondary school this year so she'll have to do it next year.

: - {{{{{

if she has to delay her final year,
she might do the reading for that year,
and maybe even things useful to read, if she's going to college.

will help her breeze through the year, when she dpes do it.

i assume she will talk with the local school officials about doing it from home.
though her rehab might not leave her the time or energy.

Yeah we are going to try and find out if she can do some of it from home, but I've also come to the conclusion that it would not be that bad if she had to do the year again, she already finished some important projects and other big things for this year so she won't have to do those again, and then the rest of the year should be quite easy. Also she doesn't know what she wants to study yet and this will give her some extra time to figure it out.

[meganpaige]

Got a 68% on an exam I felt pretty good on. Blergh.

[spider jerusalem]

I didnt get my visa to travel to the US.

[bec]

Didn't know where to post this... but it does kinda ruin my days at work.

I work with my boss's 23 year old daughter and I'm pretty sure she is... ah... into children in ways that she shouldn't be. She's the strangest, most socially awkward person I know. She had a pretty rough childhood, watching her father drop dead from a stroke when she was really young and then she was raised by my cold hearted workaholic boss who probably didn't show her enough love and affection. 6 months ago she moved out of home for the first time and moved in with the family of one of her speech pathology clients, who is a 9 year old boy. Reaaally fucking weird. She is obsessed with this kid. Before she moved in to live with him permanently, she used to go around and hang out with the kid and his younger brother after work... riding scooters, swimming, etc. She comes in to work and shows us all photos of the kids as if they were her own. Then she told us about how they all get into the bath together after they swim in the pool, and how the younger boy asked why she was wearing her togs... so yep, the 2 boys were naked and she was sitting in the bath with them. She's in no way related to these kids, she's just the older boy's speech pathologist. It gets creepier too. She sleeps in a double bed with the younger boy, even though the house has a spare bedroom, and she tells us how cute the noises are that he makes when he's asleep. She also took the 9 year old to the doctor because he had a boil in his groin region... and she stayed in the room while the doctor examined him. And she openly TELLS us all of these stories, as if there's nothing wrong with it... she actually seems to be proud or something. But the thing that ruined my day today specifically was seeing her with hickies on her neck and upper arms that were given to her by the younger boy. WTF. It is actually getting to the point where I think we need to call the authorities and get her checked out. She's very socially immature and has no friends her own age. While I don't think she's... interfering with the kids (I think she's trying to form more of a 'mother' relationship) I do think she's putting herself in bad situations where she could get herself in a lot of trouble and, at the very least, ruin her career in child speech pathology.

But what I really want to know is what her mum and the kids' parents think about it all, and how much they know about what goes on. It's all just really fucking weird and it makes me uncomfortable when she talks about it in front of me.

[Pope Totalfrog]

Didn't know where to post this... but it does kinda ruin my days at work.

I work with my boss's 23 year old daughter and I'm pretty sure she is... ah... into children in ways that she shouldn't be. She's the strangest, most socially awkward person I know. She had a pretty rough childhood, watching her father drop dead from a stroke when she was really young and then she was raised by my cold hearted workaholic boss who probably didn't show her enough love and affection. 6 months ago she moved out of home for the first time and moved in with the family of one of her speech pathology clients, who is a 9 year old boy. Reaaally fucking weird. She is obsessed with this kid. Before she moved in to live with him permanently, she used to go around and hang out with the kid and his younger brother after work... riding scooters, swimming, etc. She comes in to work and shows us all photos of the kids as if they were her own. Then she told us about how they all get into the bath together after they swim in the pool, and how the younger boy asked why she was wearing her togs... so yep, the 2 boys were naked and she was sitting in the bath with them. She's in no way related to these kids, she's just the older boy's speech pathologist. It gets creepier too. She sleeps in a double bed with the younger boy, even though the house has a spare bedroom, and she tells us how cute the noises are that he makes when he's asleep. She also took the 9 year old to the doctor because he had a boil in his groin region... and she stayed in the room while the doctor examined him. And she openly TELLS us all of these stories, as if there's nothing wrong with it... she actually seems to be proud or something. But the thing that ruined my day today specifically was seeing her with hickies on her neck and upper arms that were given to her by the younger boy. WTF. It is actually getting to the point where I think we need to call the authorities and get her checked out. She's very socially immature and has no friends her own age. While I don't think she's... interfering with the kids (I think she's trying to form more of a 'mother' relationship) I do think she's putting herself in bad situations where she could get herself in a lot of trouble and, at the very least, ruin her career in child speech pathology.

But what I really want to know is what her mum and the kids' parents think about it all, and how much they know about what goes on. It's all just really fucking weird and it makes me uncomfortable when she talks about it in front of me.

That ain't right. Call the police or Children's Services. You don't have to give your name but you can at least make sure that they know what she is up to. If she let him give her hickeys then she is behaving inappropriately with this boy. There is something very, very wrong with this girl.

[bec]

That ain't right. Call the police or Children's Services. You don't have to give your name but you can at least make sure that they know what she is up to. If she let him give her hickeys then she is behaving inappropriately with this boy. There is something very, very wrong with this girl.

Ah, Children's Services... that's what they're called. Thanks. There's something very, very wrong with the whole family and I kinda feel sorry for her because I think I would've turned out even more fucked up if I grew up in that environment. But that being said, it doesn't make what she's doing to those kids acceptable and I think I will have to make a few calls. We've all been kinda waiting it out in the hope that the kids' parents would kick her out of their house and lives, but they've just invited her on a family holiday to Canada in a few months time so I don't think it's going to happen.

[Savannah]

That ain't right. Call the police or Children's Services. You don't have to give your name but you can at least make sure that they know what she is up to. If she let him give her hickeys then she is behaving inappropriately with this boy. There is something very, very wrong with this girl.

Ah, Children's Services... that's what they're called. Thanks. There's something very, very wrong with the whole family and I kinda feel sorry for her because I think I would've turned out even more fucked up if I grew up in that environment. But that being said, it doesn't make what she's doing to those kids acceptable and I think I will have to make a few calls. We've all been kinda waiting it out in the hope that the kids' parents would kick her out of their house and lives, but they've just invited her on a family holiday to Canada in a few months time so I don't think it's going to happen.

Have any of you guys tried to tell her how weird it all is?
As far as i could understand, she does not have any experience about adult-child relationship. I guess she doesn't have a bad intention and that's why she tells everything they did, as if they're normal.

[Indja]

^Whatever her intention is, the effect on the boys is potentially very damaging. Phone child protection, it'll be better to do it and they find nothing wrong than to not do it and there turn out there is something wrong. There was almost no grammar in that sentence.

[bec]

Have any of you guys tried to tell her how weird it all is?
As far as i could understand, she does not have any experience about adult-child relationship. I guess she doesn't have a bad intention and that's why she tells everything they did, as if they're normal.

We're constantly trying to tell her how abnormal the "relationship" is but it's nearly impossible to get through to her. It's like as soon as someone starts talking to her, something in her brain tells her to stop listening and try to cut the other person off as soon as possible so she can start speaking about herself again. You can't have a conversation with her. But you're 100% correct... my theory is that because she's never been close to her mum, she wants to make sure these kids (whose parents are extremely rich and, as far as I can tell, workaholics) have a loving mother figure in their lives... and then she's also kinda getting 2 new parent figures as well. I think the parents treat her like one of their own kids, and the mother buys her clothes etc, kinda like the daughter she never had. It's all very sad and fucked up.

^Whatever her intention is, the effect on the boys is potentially very damaging. Phone child protection, it'll be better to do it and they find nothing wrong than to not do it and there turn out there is something wrong. There was almost no grammar in that sentence.

That's what I'm thinking, too. Even if it's mainly for the selfish reason that I'll feel really fucking bad if I don't do anything about it and she is (or starts) abusing those kids.

[Astica]

Absolutely what Pope Totalfrog said. This doesn't sound acceptable at all O_o