tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post1932309518132434300..comments2023-07-15T08:47:34.999-06:00Comments on Life On The Periphery: On Negativity and A Writing LifeConstance Brewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17964121072645959593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-38199556346283287092007-03-25T22:41:00.000-06:002007-03-25T22:41:00.000-06:00I know we had a guidance counselor at the high sch...I know we had a guidance counselor at the high school I graduated from, but I don't recall ever talking to this person -- I can't even recall if it were a he or she. I was a painfully average student. Not good enough to be on anyone's radar screens, but not bad enough to be, either. I did only enough to get by, participated in very few outside activities, and generally kept my nose stuck in a Scott Odenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917296669418463518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-15019699363702275132007-03-24T20:41:00.000-06:002007-03-24T20:41:00.000-06:00Thank you for the thoughtful commentary, David. A ...Thank you for the thoughtful commentary, David. A lot to think about. I often wonder if counselors are not really concerned with what is best for each individual kid. Their case load is too heavy to do anything meaningful. It is far easier to say, if you're not college material, then you must go into vocational education. Don't even get me started on what has been done to the arts in this countryConstance Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964121072645959593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-855822411311770062007-03-24T14:01:00.000-06:002007-03-24T14:01:00.000-06:00Hello. The guidance counselor thing... Why are so ...Hello. The guidance counselor thing... Why are so many of them so crap? I was a very poor student in high school, skipped a lot, drank too much, didn't buy into the whole popularity-based culture, and rarely engaged with my coursework. I did read a ton, though, Camus, Gide, Hesse, for example. But I read outside of class. I wasn't a bad student because I was stupid. I was bad because I was bored,David Anthony Durhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13885922955551669016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-60333677058208995992007-03-22T20:58:00.000-06:002007-03-22T20:58:00.000-06:00Gabriele, I wish I had been that brave when I was ...Gabriele, I wish I had been that brave when I was younger. Maybe it wouldn't have taken me this long to figure out what I wanted to do in my life. <BR/>I'm lucky in that my best friend is my biggest supporter - and a kick butt beta reader besides. :)<BR/><BR/>There are far too many good books out there for my comfort... but I'm writing the stories I want to tell, in the way I want to write, so Constance Brewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964121072645959593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30980619.post-75984595695930699952007-03-22T14:32:00.000-06:002007-03-22T14:32:00.000-06:00I was the girl who told one counsellor that my lif...I was the girl who told one counsellor that my life was mine and I didn't need his advice, thank you very much. "And if anything else fails, I can always become a counselor and get paid for telling people bullshit." He wrote an angry letter to my parents but got back more than he'd bargained for. My father destests the German school system (too bad we aren't allowed to homeschool here or I'd Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.com