Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

So as I was saying in the student accessible version, I was at a student's birthday party last night.

It was held at the club house of their gated if not so secure (they let cars in without question or trade of driver's license for a visitor's pass) community and attended by the younger sister's classmates, as well as the parents' own little cliques.

What's surprising? It was the free flowing booze. The parents knew there were teachers there.

They even provided pitchers and powdered juices for the students to make chasers.

By the time we left there was only one untoward incident, a glass falling from the table top and breaking.

Another student told me about another glass he broke, but that may have been (off camera) when they were walking around the club house or at another drinking session birthday party.

Why am I freaking out about this again? Because of my recent sterile halls experience with it's warnings against limiting alcoholic beverages (not avoid, mind you) or have a recurrence.

So I wasn't looking at their antics through the same faint haze of intoxication and moral disregard.

Not that there was anything illicit going on. It was mostly good clean fun. The worst part was this guy who is on the social outskirts who showed up late, and was sneaking refills of his glass even though everyone was already telling him not to.

After all, most of the time they only let him hang around because of his weird sense of humor.

It's also not the first time that he has leashed himself in under my disapproving non-smile.

He keeps saying sorry, until I told him that sorry should mean not doing it again, which he does.

That "lecture" by the way was just in the cafeteria about suddenly shouting something, no alcohol involved.

The last time we went out drinking and he also found us, he even thanked me and the other younger teacher (who was also a former student) profusely for letting him join us there.

Am I getting too old for this? There was a part of me last night that wanted to show off to them about drinking something straight and not grimacing, but of course I can't.

Session 2755 thinks maybe it's time to move on to having real adults as underlings. Class dismissed.