Great day.
Cocker Spaniel was up second. Out of 30 plus.
She is probably the most shy of our group but her presentation was confident, assured and interesting. Very thorough. Most people were so impressed they failed to ask questions.
meh.
I can imagine her, the night before today talking into a mirror and giving her presentation and practicing the hand gestures, when to pause and point something out with the pointer. It was probably funny. Not in a bad way, but in a Cocker Spaniel way, with moments of 'Oh! That's a good idea!' Followed by a jotting down of a note in the presentation margin that eventually came out this morning in a little smile of momentary shyness that only those of us who know her, could recognise.
But she did it.
The Voice was meant to go one slot ahead of me after lunch. But something happened as I sat down, a tutor came up and said in a low voice, 'Do you mind going straight away? There's been a bit of a change.'
'Yea, sure, errr, let me get my notes.'
I had them laughing pretty hard at times.
Not at me mind you. With me.
The laughter of the classroom relaxed me enough that I could get through the presentation without too much sputtering. Because even those who seem to be forever relaxed and confident still get the jitters. That's normal.
After the presentations were all over for the day I started to ask around, 'Hey, does anyone know why The Voice didn't go today?'
'Uh. -No. Was she supposed to go today? Oh, yea, she was.'
I kept quietly shopping the question around until I finally heard something, 'Oh yea, she went up to the tutor's office and had a panic attack in front of them and they told her she didn't have to do it if it was upsetting her that much. They assured her it wouldn't be a big deal.'
Maybe saying I saw red would be an overstatement of the truth, let's go with I saw hot pink.
I didn't give away what I really thought, after all, gotta play nice with the other kiddies.
Later on the tube ride home I leaned over to Cocker Spaniel and told her why The Voice had been let off.
Her reaction was similar to mine.
What I really want to know is why did anyone fall for that bullshit act? A girl who has self-promoted her way into the internship at a prestigious showroom in the heart of the city's art and antiques market as well as gotten (and refused) the Christeby's internship is now too shy to give a presentation in front of her classmates of 8 months?
Bullshit.
Bull fucking shit.
Who fell for it? Why did anyone buy it? When will the injustice stop?
Is everyone else goddamned blind?
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