HOKAY.
SO.
Here's the Earth, chil--oh, umm, sorry, got offtrack there...
Spring Break is over. Weep. Back to the old ball and chain til Thursday, when I'll go home AGAIN. Yay Easter! Yay Good Friday! Yay no class!
Now, for the REAL reason you're all reading: Yet more on the GM story. Found out Saturday morning why my mom REALLY wants me to get the job (yes, another 'real reason). I nearly hit the floor in shock: She wants my brother and I to work at jobs like GM and 'Wings & Things' (yes, a fast food restaurant) as incentive to DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
...
...Umm, now, for those of you just joining my f-list who haven't known me for over a decade like some others have, I've never had grade problems. Far from it, I'm pulling a 3.6 GPR to keep my scholarships, have never made a C in a class my whole life, and don't really intend to start now. In short, I'd have to say I make EXCELLENT grades. I REALLY hope this is just her 'worst case scenario' schtick flaring up again, as it seems to make an appearance any time she asks me how O-chem's going and my immediate response isn't 'Oh just great mom!' *sigh* she did this last semester too... But I pull through eventually, and no harm, no foul.
They're my grades, let me worry about them--and she wonders why I put off calling home after a test. Cause I don't wanna listen to more, "So, how do you think you did? Have you gotten your grades yet? Are you studying with your friends this weekend?" *hair pull* I'VE GOT IT HANDLED! It'd make me SO happy if for once they wouldn't ask me about any of this unless I initiated the convo (which would mean I made a GOOD grade), and just wait til the grades are posted at the end of the semester. Who needs to know those little ones, eh?
And it really makes me uncomfortable on another level that she's using this as...how can I put this, a threat.
Let's look at this: I'm going to college, facing another 4 years of graduate school and debt after undergrad stuff, all the while working minimum wage jobs and giving myself a lot of grief.
She wants to 'threaten' me and 'scare me into doing better' by making me take a job where I'd be earning more than 3 times what I make now...with less effort?
...Does it take a genius to realize that's not an effective strategy to get your kids to do better in school?
"Look kids! You can study your butts off for 8 years after high school, or make the same amount of money at an automobile plant, right outta high-school!"
*sigh* Thank goodness I'm not in this for the money...
So yeah, that's what's going on in THAT area now: I need to make better grades, or I'll be stuck at $18 an hour. Oh noesss!!!111~~!!
In other news, anyone have any good ideas on how to make $160 in a couple of weeks? My Asuka subscription's almost out, and this is the WORST time for it to do so, as I need distraction more than ever now. I'd even settle at the moment for a 6-month'er @ $80.
I'd hinted at it around the parents for my bday (March 22, you fools!), but I think I got distracted by my purty new system ala my uncle (and that nice little flat-screen monitor too, thanks, everyone else :P). But I'm supposed to do some scanning for some groups soon, and that kind of neccessitates HAVING this subscription :S
And how were y'all's weeks? Yes, I AM southern, got a problem? :)
SO.
Here's the Earth, chil--oh, umm, sorry, got offtrack there...
Spring Break is over. Weep. Back to the old ball and chain til Thursday, when I'll go home AGAIN. Yay Easter! Yay Good Friday! Yay no class!
Now, for the REAL reason you're all reading: Yet more on the GM story. Found out Saturday morning why my mom REALLY wants me to get the job (yes, another 'real reason). I nearly hit the floor in shock: She wants my brother and I to work at jobs like GM and 'Wings & Things' (yes, a fast food restaurant) as incentive to DO BETTER IN SCHOOL.
...
...Umm, now, for those of you just joining my f-list who haven't known me for over a decade like some others have, I've never had grade problems. Far from it, I'm pulling a 3.6 GPR to keep my scholarships, have never made a C in a class my whole life, and don't really intend to start now. In short, I'd have to say I make EXCELLENT grades. I REALLY hope this is just her 'worst case scenario' schtick flaring up again, as it seems to make an appearance any time she asks me how O-chem's going and my immediate response isn't 'Oh just great mom!' *sigh* she did this last semester too... But I pull through eventually, and no harm, no foul.
They're my grades, let me worry about them--and she wonders why I put off calling home after a test. Cause I don't wanna listen to more, "So, how do you think you did? Have you gotten your grades yet? Are you studying with your friends this weekend?" *hair pull* I'VE GOT IT HANDLED! It'd make me SO happy if for once they wouldn't ask me about any of this unless I initiated the convo (which would mean I made a GOOD grade), and just wait til the grades are posted at the end of the semester. Who needs to know those little ones, eh?
And it really makes me uncomfortable on another level that she's using this as...how can I put this, a threat.
Let's look at this: I'm going to college, facing another 4 years of graduate school and debt after undergrad stuff, all the while working minimum wage jobs and giving myself a lot of grief.
She wants to 'threaten' me and 'scare me into doing better' by making me take a job where I'd be earning more than 3 times what I make now...with less effort?
...Does it take a genius to realize that's not an effective strategy to get your kids to do better in school?
"Look kids! You can study your butts off for 8 years after high school, or make the same amount of money at an automobile plant, right outta high-school!"
*sigh* Thank goodness I'm not in this for the money...
So yeah, that's what's going on in THAT area now: I need to make better grades, or I'll be stuck at $18 an hour. Oh noesss!!!111~~!!
In other news, anyone have any good ideas on how to make $160 in a couple of weeks? My Asuka subscription's almost out, and this is the WORST time for it to do so, as I need distraction more than ever now. I'd even settle at the moment for a 6-month'er @ $80.
I'd hinted at it around the parents for my bday (March 22, you fools!), but I think I got distracted by my purty new system ala my uncle (and that nice little flat-screen monitor too, thanks, everyone else :P). But I'm supposed to do some scanning for some groups soon, and that kind of neccessitates HAVING this subscription :S
And how were y'all's weeks? Yes, I AM southern, got a problem? :)
