Students

[watervole]

It's obviously a busy life being a student. All those wargaming sessions to attend in freshers week. Doesn't even leave enough time to send an e-mail to your mother.

I can't talk for more than about 30 seconds on the phone, and that's pushing it and likely to leave me croaky for an hour afterwards.

Would it really kill exalted_mugwump to take enough time out of his pressing schedule to write an e-mail or make a livejournal entry so that I can feel he's still out there?

I'd like to know what he's doing. I'd quite like a note at intervals to know he's still alive... I'd be interested to know if he's found interesting things to do, if he's met interesting people. Does he miss home? Has he actually had any sleep (probably not judging from the brief conversation when I phoned him.)

He's been having problems getting his e-mail set up, but that doesn't prevent him from using livejournal.

I need the sense of connection. I need to know he's still there. KNowing what he's doing helps me to feel he's still there. I need to know if he's happy/sad, bored/interested, etc.

Comments

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

He's in a new environment, where everything is new. Time's passing differently for him. From what I recall of starting university, the remainder of the year seemed to pass more quickly than the first two weeks, which took on a bizarre chronology all of their own.

[kerravonsen]

{hugs}

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I tried to ring my parents once at week at University. I really wouldn't expect much more of him, especially in his first few weeks. After all, he knows he's all right, and nothing special is happening at home.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I can't remember how frequently I rang, but definitely not as often as once a week.

[entorien.livejournal.com]

He's been on the webcam with micavity, so we know he's okay, I just dropped a gentle hint...

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Not only has youngest not contacted me, but a colleague at work asked how she was recovering from falling off her bike. Turns out he'd had a call from her about something else and mentioned it. And she's been phoning the boyfriend. It's only her parents who haven't heard.

Actually we have now, she had to get in touch 'cos I have to pick her up for a round trip to the orthodontist.