You know When you wake up and your little disoriented and just trying to place yourself in your
universe? That was me this morning. I woke up debating whether or not
to use the food bank because of the Saturday that all the sudden I
recall that had not seen our work with my health person Friday and
realized that today is Friday! What a gift? It was like I've been
given 24 hours as if present for just waking up. My reality and
shifted back into place everything is crystal.
I was not sure if I was up
to the task but my goal today was to make contact with the community
college where I audited the art class last summer Senior thing
where you can take the class for like $10 or something, really
totally worth the output except however unless it's some sort of
after bite. Well my after bite started last month when I got a letter
which had written in large letters “Demand” spread across the
top. It was a document indicating that I owed to college $10 for some
reason it didn't say. I tried to contact the college then I got no
resolution. Trying to contact them on the phone was almost impossible
it seemed and then during the winter holiday season difficult to find
anybody to even answer the phone. Then last week I got a similar
letter, but this letter identified itself as “Demand Letter 2!”.
This was really threatening it did not say outright but suggested
heavily that if I didn't pay but they are asking that my financial
life would be destroyed. And seriously I have to admit that the
charge was $10. I suppose there are other students who have demand
letters ranging in the thousands of dollars. My name is just one of
many am sure that was fed into the machine.
I don't know if I should
be concerned or not but the weather today was beautiful temperatures
up in the 40s, sunshine and a definite spring in the air when this
should not be one this early in the winter. I caught the bus over to
the college and started my process. I started at “Admissions” who
sent me to the “Cashier's” office who eventually set me up to the
office of “Registrar”. I know this kid was a college student
himself probably on work-study. This guy can only enforce what he
saw. I don't really fault him but is being just so anal. I was being
dinged $10for a class I did not take! Seriously, I didn't enroll in
the class in the fall, this fall. But he says there's my name
registered for this class is already after the semester and there's
nothing he can do. We're having this little back-and-forth and I
could just see the whole thing escalating. Truthfully I should just a
whipped up my credit card and zip zip pay for the stupid thing but it
just seems not right that I have to pay 10 bucks for a problem that
there's not mine. Well that issue did not get resolved the kid gave
me a paper to fill out and return to see if the college will “hear
my request” to dispose of this “Demand”. I stuffed the document
into my backpack and left for my apartment. It's the weekend, the
first weekend of the new year and somewhere in the next 48 hours I'm
been to fill out the stupid document in an effort to waive the $10 to
college says I owe them for a class I never registered for.
Unbelievable, not that I was planning to take a course this spring. I
was kind of thinking about it I mean my OT and PT are so gung ho
about me taking any classes I would take a class just to get their
admiration AND SILENCE. But I'm getting the sinking sensation that there's a reason committee colleges are community colleges… Buyer beware.
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