Fred really saved my ass today. Mom had gone off to teach her lessons, and I was starting to organize my papers for the PTA Scholarship and read the requirements more closely when I discovered that I needed not one (the inclusion of only one reference form was really misleading) but two completed reference forms and recommendation letters. The letters part wasn't a problem; I still had multiple copies of the letters that Fred and Jaimie wrote me; the problem was the reference form, since I decided against just forging the whole thing.
My first thought was to contact Jaimie, since she was much less intimidating. I was thinking out my plan of action when I realized Jaimie wouldn't be working today or tomorrow or the next day, and I could hardly call her up and ask her to show up just for this. Plus, the scholarship had this big focus on volunteer work, and Jaimie's letter mentioned nothing about that. Fred was the only way to go.
Anyhow, long story short, I emailed him right away, and he responded really quickly too, telling me to call him on his cell phone. He was about to take off, but said he'd wait for me, so I called up Dad for a ride, and headed over right away. I felt really bad, since Fred just has that kind of ... somewhat naturally condescending or impatient front, even if he's not really like that. But yeah, he filled out everything for me (and forged a signature from Dr. Budoff, since his signature's on my recommendation letters even though Fred wrote them), and I apologized a lot for it being so short notice, and he was actually really nice about it. He just said that I really lucked out since he doesn't usually work on Fridays, but has been putting in more hours lately cuhs of the greater workload or something.
My first thought was to contact Jaimie, since she was much less intimidating. I was thinking out my plan of action when I realized Jaimie wouldn't be working today or tomorrow or the next day, and I could hardly call her up and ask her to show up just for this. Plus, the scholarship had this big focus on volunteer work, and Jaimie's letter mentioned nothing about that. Fred was the only way to go.
Anyhow, long story short, I emailed him right away, and he responded really quickly too, telling me to call him on his cell phone. He was about to take off, but said he'd wait for me, so I called up Dad for a ride, and headed over right away. I felt really bad, since Fred just has that kind of ... somewhat naturally condescending or impatient front, even if he's not really like that. But yeah, he filled out everything for me (and forged a signature from Dr. Budoff, since his signature's on my recommendation letters even though Fred wrote them), and I apologized a lot for it being so short notice, and he was actually really nice about it. He just said that I really lucked out since he doesn't usually work on Fridays, but has been putting in more hours lately cuhs of the greater workload or something.
I hurried home and spent the next few hours up til when I had to leave for work grinding out an essay-styled response to the four questions on the scholarship. And then I had a kind of realization: the PTA wouldn't give the scholarship to me (and if they do, they shouldn't); they were gonna give it to someone who read the rules carefully and got their letters two weeks before and spent a month working on and perfecting their paper, not someone who procrastinated and lucked out with their recommendation letters on the last weekend. Just. I dunno, I really haven't been putting the kind of effort I should be for college and college-related matters.
