A Mother and Spawn (Email) Reunion

**Because it's funny at the end, and I'm just so darn proud of all the correct grammar and spelling.

Me: Look at this link to the IU refund schedule and see if you think I’ll get a refund for that Chem Lab you dropped.

Spawn: I think that the 240 per credit hour only applies if you were paying per credit hour, but because I remained within the 12-17 credit hour flat fee range, they wouldn’t refund anyway. Now that I think about it, by dropping so late I probably did cause the loss of a lab fee cost, which I do apologize about. Honestly I didn’t know about the time restraint stipulations associated with dropping a class. This was my first time dropping a class, and I did it more so in a stressed panic without knowing the full details.

Me: Okay, that makes sense. I feel better about that 12-17 hour rule thing. That is true - we pay a flat fee for full-time status. So, had you not even taken it, we'd still have had to pay the same fee. I get it now. How much was the lab fee? Do you know? Stressed panic?? I thought you were happy. Do I need to call you about this?

Spawn: The lab fee was like $170. I was happy to drop it but I was only stressed because I had to make the decision, which required thinking about it and weighing my options. In all, I am happy about it, but the day or so that I was contemplating, it was a little nerve racking. But nothing serious. It’s just that I don’t like change haha.

Me: Don’t like change? Hell, we were nothing but change. You can take the lab at a different time from the class? And from a different prof maybe?

Spawn: Yea I'm hoping the prof is different and I will be more prepared in general because I know now what the course is like.

Me: Cool. And it's okay that the lab is taken alone? Not the same semester as the class? On an unrelated subject, guess what I've done? Signed up for piano lessons at the Beech Grove School of Art and House of Music. I can't even type that without laughing. Told the teacher I only had a keyboard at home to practice on and it didn't have all the keys. She said she had students with those and that we wouldn't learn songs with those extr-y keys in 'em anyway. LOL.

Spawn: Yea you can take the lab separately...sweet on the piany lessons, should be fun learnin a diddy or two.