relief rather than nostalgia
Jan. 17th, 2006 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI went to the recreation center to pay for Florence's spring semester dance classes. While they are in fact just the continuation of the fall classes, the payments happen again in January. This is pretty common - it's true of the other two places she dances, and it makes sense. There is no good reason to pay for a whole year if the student decides not to continue. At any rate, they pulled Florence's record up on the computer, told me the class numbers and the price, and then I had to fill out a paper form with the same old information. Even though it was stored in the computer and up on the screen at that very minute.
I was about to start ranting about how ridiculous and time-wasting this is, but then it dawned on me that this was the last time. Ever. We'll presumably be paying for future dance classes as part of college tuition or fees, but unless I decide to take classes down the street myself, I'm done with their flaky bureaucracy. All these last ever things probably should be making me feel nostalgic, but in a lot of cases I'm just glad. I'll miss her company a lot, but not most of the trappings of having a dependent minor in the house.
I was about to start ranting about how ridiculous and time-wasting this is, but then it dawned on me that this was the last time. Ever. We'll presumably be paying for future dance classes as part of college tuition or fees, but unless I decide to take classes down the street myself, I'm done with their flaky bureaucracy. All these last ever things probably should be making me feel nostalgic, but in a lot of cases I'm just glad. I'll miss her company a lot, but not most of the trappings of having a dependent minor in the house.
