Posted by Lindenblüte on October 29, 2006, at 14:24:45
In reply to Re: I'm home from the hospital » TherapyGirl, posted by wishingstar on October 29, 2006, at 12:09:55
Hi Wishingstar,
It's hard to reach out to people. This professor of yours sounds interesting. I think this is a good person to reach out to. Here's why-
1) he currently isn't in your life at all, so you have no expectations about how he should be treating you special because of your special circumstance.
2) he is smart and concerned
3) you can treat him as a correspondent, e-mail, etc if you decide that you don't really feel like hanging out with him
4) he's a responsible adult, so you can keep his number in your wallet. If you have some kind of problem, like you're stuck somewhere with no ride, and you're starting to freak out or something, you can give him a call.
5) When you're feeling well enough, you can meet him for coffee and try and keep it a regular date. I have a teacher like that. We have tea on Monday afternoons most weeks. He knows enough about me and my crazy brains to understand when I DO want to meet up with him and when I DON'T want to meet up with him, and he doesn't take it personally. (whew!) Nice to have a buddy like that.Good luck in your partial program. Keep yourself out of trouble, okay? Sounds like you're doing all the right things- staying around your folks' place, staying in contact with the outside world, and you generally sound like you're handling things well.
give yourself a hug from me, okay?
-Li
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