stranger and stranger

Now the fellow student that irked me has taken an about face. Last week she seemed to be having a public meltdown. Too stressed, too this, too that-too bad. This week she is back all cheerful. And now she is  trying to talk to me. I am keeping it distant and professional. The instructor most likely thought it was a cat fight when she turned me in to him because he never did a thing about it and in all our contact he never once mentioned it to me. If it was a cat fight, it was one sided and I missed out on all the fun.  I think she regrets her actions but until an apology is received I have no reason to feel that she is to be trusted.  I do forgive easily but I don’t forget willingly.

We got a strange thing in the mail yesterday-a public aid medical card that we didn’t apply for. We are now all covered by the state and we don’t know why. Its like we won a prize, but what strings are attached here? I am thinking that when the kids went back to school and we had to fill out the yearly lunch form (required), the school must of been shocked when we put our income in as zero. I don’t lie on official forms and despite the zero we are doing good.  But it must of looked like we were in dire straights. It doesn’t have an area in which we can explain ourselves. Just zero.

I think the school shared the information with the feds and the state. The feds do need the information because this is how schools get their No Child Left Behind funding  and its based on all the zeros like us,  but the state does not have a right to the information automatically and besides, why would they do us the favor if we didn’t ask in the first place? Are they so benevolent that they are just looking for charity cases like us? Not likely. I am sure that if we needed this, they would make us crawl through hot coals on our hands and knees and then make us jump through hoops first.

So now I have to find our “social worker” to tell her/him that there has been some kind of mistake. We are just fine without them. Really, we are. That should take weeks of my time and a few years off my life. Bureaucracy and I just don’t mix.

I really don’t like the state in my business and I’m not sure how they got there in the first place, not really anyhow. This just seems so invasive and its a puzzle.