He manually fixes computers for a living.
Ugh, Megan is being useless to me again. I'm trying to find out where I'm living (yeah, just SOMETHING IMPORTANT XD) and the school coordinator said the results would be posted on the website by the end of July. OK I've been scouring the website and I can't find the results. So I email the coordinator asking where they are and no response, again I ask, no response. I call her several times, she doesn't answer and it keeps ringing.
So I email Megan this morning saying that I want to know where I'm living and that the coordinator isn't responding to my contact, and if she knows about the housing because I can't find it.
She replied that she doesn't know anything about the housing and that I should follow up with the coordinator.
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I email her back saying "Thanks", that if she could also contact the coordinator and ask because I have been attempting to contact the coordinator and haven't received a response and it's well past July.
Her response, "I can certainly try."
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my god what a wimpy answer XD So she made a group email with me, the coordinator, and herself.
Anyway, one of my childhood friends died yesterday. It's hard to believe. Well, he had a rare cancer that's so rare you have more of a chance to be struck by lightning and it only affects adolescents and young adults. His insurance wouldn't cover his treatment because it was so rare that there isn't a standard treatment for it so we raised money for him last year. I found out about the whole thing while I was at the Virginia Woolf Conference and I took a long walk on my own during a break. I mean, one of the reasons I like my internship is that the building I'm in is old, beautiful, and has a bunch of ballrooms, and that reminds me of what everyday life was like in elementary/middle school because that's what we grew up in.
It's just hard to believe that I used to see him every day for 8 years and now he's dead at 24. He was a great, funny guy. We went through Kindergarten to 8th grade together and those days at school were glorious and I consider those people special and basically models of friendship and loyalty that I've held all future people to. Even now I can still go back to them and it's as though no time has passed!
I'm really glad I've saved my yearbooks and basically everything from that time because I still have his notes saying I'm queen of China and everything in the world.
After finding out his diagnosis they made a foundation to raise money for awareness and they've been doing a good job at making events and getting people involved:
http://www.spearsarcoma.com/