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[katallison.livejournal.com]

This challenge *rocks.* One thing I've been enjoying in some of the stories (shellmidwife's and heuradys's, for example) is writers taking the opportunity to use some of their own specific professional knowledge in the documents they create. So this weekend, after several grueling days of getting new college students oriented and registed, and scribbling reams of file notes, I found this floating into my head. It's wayyyy over the word limit, so I'm posting it on my own webspace rather than in LJ, with apologies for inconvenience. Just a bit of silly fluff, but I had fun writing it.

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[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

Kat, I enjoyed this immensely! First of all, your HTML ability is awe-inspiring. (But that's not the most important thing. *G*)

I felt like I *was* your OFC as I was reading, and I felt sad that she was putting so much into this kid who was just going to walk blithely away -- hopefully better off. It reminded me of teaching -- knowing that you needed to give them everything and not expect anything back. Like Kalena, I had nobody like this in HS or college, and I really could have used one.

Some great little human moments here: when she told him not taking a student loan was "dumb", when she enquired into whether there would be a third dependent, and her pegging of Stella as "petulant". I also loved Ray's sweet, misspelled letter.

I was sorry Ray didn't go to school there for another year. *G* Wonderful piece.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Actually, I'd planned to fancy up the layout a bit more, maybe even scan in some of the forms we actually use at my college, but time got short...

I'm delighted that you enjoyed it! Writing it did give me some compensation for all the Ray-like students I've had who just wandered off, never to be heard from again. At least this way I know Ray's career choice worked out well for him. *g*