The usual disclaimers that
the BSC characters belong to Ann Martin while Mona Vaughn belongs to Betsy
Haynes. Upward and onward with Mary Anne's journal...
February:
Monday:
Still lots of snow around. Am enjoying my last semester in undergrad school. Next year I'll be eligible to student-teach. Can't wait. Stacey called last night and is asking all of us in the BSC if we'd be interested in a re-union sleepover when we graduate. It'll probably be in late June or early July. We're toying with the idea of making it on the week of July 4. I told her I'm in; Kristy and Mona also added that they'd love to. She ee'd most of the others and they're in. It'd be nice, all ten of us being together again, having a sleepover for old times' sake before we get on with grad school and starting careers.
Speaking of which, one class
Kristy's taking is in business trends and they have interesting discussions
on how human psychology affects business. It sounds interesting.
Saturday:
Just got back from a triple-date...Kristy and Shane, Mona and Angela, Lumie and me. Went to the Cheesecake Factory. We haven't been there in ages. It was a two-hour wait for a table, so we went up to Barnes and Noble to browse around as we waited.
Wow, this world is getting more and more complex, so it's good we're keeping up with what's happening and things and how it affects people. Kristy chatted about her business trends class while I said some things about how students are being prepared for today's business world and careers and are schools keeping up with the new technology and all.
Esp. high schools need to be on the ball about these things. Some high schools are doing a good job with it and their students are the ones that are about to get the good jobs once they leave college or high school, but you have some schools that are still behind in those areas and many of their students are unprepared.
Lumie and Angela added about schools in other countries how they prepared students for the working world. Mona added about medicine and technology both in this country and in others and how different countries could pool their resources together to make the world a better place. From there, we wound up discussing relations between countries and moved onto world peace.
It's amazing how our conversations move from one thing, then thru a small connection, another. First it was business trends, then schools preparing students, then how young people are raised and how that's improved in the past thirty years, then the evolution of human psychology, then the evolution of social movements like feminism, civil rights and gay rights, then how that made the human mind evolve more and how human minds move to invent things and how close inventions are to social movements and how life has gotten faster and easier and how various cultures use technology, then nations relating, then world peace...God this could go on for five million pages.
Buuut, that's how the conversations with the BSC go and I'm glad. It's nice to have friends where we can bounce various ideas back and forth and just "evolve" a conversation about almost anything. E.g., we could be in a restaurant with old photos on the walls and could get into a conversation about how cameras changed in taking pictures and why and how it launched films and video cameras and all. It's rather neat how everyone has some different idea that they add and we wind up building more on it.
It's a satisfying way to
spend time with friends. Actually, I'm not a big talker; I do mostly
listening. I learn a lot from my friends and I've known them forever.
I'm thinking about this now as I soak in the tub and get ready for sleep.
More later!
