I have no idea who they are sometimes. No wait, that's not true. I have
an idea, one single solitary straw to grasp at as I try to match their face to a name to a class to a year. This was really easy about two years ago. My
first full class of babies hadn't even graduated yet, so I still saw most of them now and then. Plus I had only had 12 different classes of my own at that point. But now? Now I'm in the 20's for classes, with, let's say 23 kids on average per class. It's superhuman.
I recognize their faces. I usually can latch onto their names. But these days, I can't remember when I taught them and how long they've been out of school. It's not that I don't love them. It's just that I have a terminal case of
CRS.
So how do I make conversation with these lost and found babies? Well, it starts like this: "So are you in school?"
At which point I can either congratulate them or lecture them on their potential, giving me plenty of time to recall meaningful details to slip in to prove both my affection and my mental competency.
Anyway, I've been getting some mild cravings of late, and so I ordered a
barbecue pizza online.
Now it's break time, and I've never been one to dress up for the pizza guy, but I might have to re-think that after FC was there when I answered the door.
I knew her instantly, remembered even where she sat in her first period class two? three years ago? That I didn't know. I remembered her memoir, and her boyfriend then--even the messy break-up thereafter. Still, I asked her the question.
"I graduated from college already!" said my pizza delivery girl.
Now that was unexpected.
Apparently she's also still with
JC, who was giving me fits not two years ago. I did not know she was with him then! She did, however, I think, follow through on her career project. I think she said she was going for nursing then...before she discovered she had to build up a tolerance for blood while working pizza delivery.
All in all, it kind of puts a damper on my strategy for connecting. But I'm glad FC's doing well.
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