Different person, different conversation, different problem. This time, it's E, and I've known hir for a few years, watched hir grow like a weed in a parking lot despite everything thrown hir way. I met hir as a two-time high school dropout, saw E get hir GED, enter the local community college with a dream of being "that good nurse at 2am in the ER, the one who asks if your bruises are consensual, and if your cuts are intentional."
Ze rocked out hir first year, even got some program to pay for hir whole tuition. But the program ends after the first year, and ze's strapped, and telling me about it over the phone some Thursday night.
My first thought: I could pay it. It's not that much, compared to what I've got - two thousand dollars a semester, I could part with that knowing it could help.
But I'm also thinking about my last post, and thinking it wouldn't do much in the long run. Instead, I'm thinking up projects to get hir paid, offering to help with the unfamiliar finaid forms. I want hir to know that I want to support hir as best I can. I want to know what my best is.
And the fact that I can't bring myself to actually say the words "Do you want me to pay your tuition?" says something.
more on this later
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