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1 | VLD_int_01 | 0.9111 | Alright. If you could say your name please. | 2.9021 |
2 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 3.5642 | /RD-NAME-8/ | 5.7558 |
3 | VLD_int_01 | 7.1162 | Could you spell your last name? | 8.1374 |
4 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 8.5104 | /RD-NAME-1/ | 9.1688 |
6 | | 9.2894 | /RD-NAME-2/ | 10.0993 |
8 | | 10.2095 | /RD-NAME-1/ | 10.5679 |
10 | | 10.6954 | /RD-NAME-2/ | 11.5087 |
11 | VLD_int_01 | 12.6966 | Alright. | 13.1022 |
13 | | 13.6198 | And can you give me your birthday please? | 15.3358 |
14 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 15.7088 | My birthday is August eleventh | 17.9097 |
15 | VLD_int_01 | 18.9110 | What year? | 19.2654 |
16 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 20.1234 | /unintelligible/ | 20.9726 |
17 | VLD_int_01 | 22.3663 | What year? | 22.7766 |
18 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 23.3595 | /unintelligible/ | 24.0449 |
19 | VLD_int_01 | 27.5315 | I need the year. | 28.1844 |
20 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 29.2196 | Ninteen | 30.1755 |
22 | | 30.4599 | /unintelligible/ | 31.1453 |
23 | VLD_int_01 | 33.0793 | Okay, well how old are you? | 34.0259 |
25 | | 34.4735 | It's | 34.6740 |
27 | | 34.9678 | so, six in [one, half a dozen in the other] | 36.7910 |
28 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 35.3268 | [<laugh>] | 37.0661 |
29 | | 37.6618 | Nineteen sixty nine. /I [would be fired/.] | 39.9373 |
30 | VLD_int_01 | 39.0793 | [<laugh>] | 41.1496 |
31 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 40.3290 | [Goodness.] | 40.9911 |
32 | | 41.7072 | Have to make a joke out of it. | 43.2000 |
33 | VLD_int_01 | 43.3960 | <laugh> Um, | 45.2751 |
35 | | 45.9699 | where were you born? | 46.8372 |
36 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 47.1543 | I was born, in Miami Florida. | 49.3587 |
38 | | 51.0886 | In nineteen sixty nine. | 52.5434 |
39 | VLD_int_01 | 52.5528 | <laugh> | 54.1568 |
41 | | 55.0369 | Um, | 55.5499 |
43 | | 55.7923 | what neighborhood did you grow up in? | 57.0653 |
44 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 58.0375 | The neighborhood right here on the West Side, Valdosta, Georgia. | 61.1616 |
46 | | 62.2900 | /RD-ADDRESS-4/ Street. | 63.4313 |
47 | VLD_int_01 | 71.7488 | Um, besides Valdosta, | 73.2782 |
49 | | 73.4973 | did you live anywhere else? | 74.6491 |
50 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 75.7157 | As a child? | 76.7649 |
51 | VLD_int_01 | 77.3617 | Anytime. | 77.7651 |
52 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 78.0518 | Oh, certainly. | 78.8585 |
53 | VLD_int_01 | 79.0544 | Where- where else have you lived? | 80.0441 |
54 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 80.4952 | Melbourne, Florida, | 81.5325 |
55 | VLD_int_01 | 82.6464 | Mm-hm. | 83.0027 |
57 | | 85.2735 | Anywhere else? | 85.7072 |
58 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 86.0662 | Valdosta, Georgia. | 87.3858 |
59 | VLD_int_01 | 87.9162 | Anywhere else? | 88.6017 |
60 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 89.7674 | Not live, live. No that's about it. | 91.6512 |
61 | VLD_int_01 | 91.8844 | That's it? Okay. | 92.5465 |
63 | | 93.8976 | And where'd you go to school? | 95.0447 |
64 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 95.9026 | High school? | 96.4995 |
65 | VLD_int_01 | 97.3202 | Mm-hm. | 97.5580 |
66 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 97.7538 | Valdosta, Georgia. | 98.9289 |
67 | VLD_int_01 | 99.4826 | Which- which high school? | 100.3685 |
68 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 100.8584 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ | 101.8467 |
69 | VLD_int_01 | 107.2918 | And | 108.2524 |
71 | | 108.5228 | where'd you go to college? | 109.3994 |
72 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 110.1035 | Um, | 110.9009 |
74 | | 112.3126 | does it matter what year? | 113.3384 |
75 | VLD_int_01 | 113.6508 | Mm-mm. | 113.9259 |
76 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 113.9306 | Okay well, /RD-SCHOOL-4/ | 115.4973 |
77 | VLD_int_01 | 116.4953 | Did you start at /RD-SCHOOL-4/? | 117.6271 |
78 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 118.3406 | I did not. | 119.0447 |
79 | VLD_int_01 | 119.6368 | What school did you start at? | 120.6580 |
80 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 121.5300 | Uh, /RD-SCHOOL-2/ | 122.7703 |
81 | VLD_int_01 | 123.4453 | /RD-SCHOOL-7/? | 124.6810 |
82 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 124.8721 | That is correct. | 125.8560 |
83 | VLD_int_01 | 125.9026 | And where's [that-] | 126.4808 |
84 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 126.3130 | [Oh what-] | 126.6627 |
85 | | 126.8675 | They've changed the name of it. I forgot now. | 128.9848 |
87 | | 129.4173 | It's a four year institution. | 130.7696 |
89 | | 131.4224 | Uh, in Melbourne, Florida. | 132.9844 |
90 | VLD_int_01 | 132.9938 | Oh, that's when you lived in Melbourne? | 134.2171 |
91 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 134.2854 | Mm-hm. | 134.7890 |
92 | VLD_int_01 | 137.5902 | And what's your current occupation? | 138.8026 |
93 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 139.4729 | I'm an educator. | 140.6537 |
94 | VLD_int_01 | 141.7297 | Where do you teach? | 142.6483 |
95 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 142.9607 | At [/RD-SCHOOL-3/] | 143.7021 |
96 | VLD_int_01 | 143.1472 | [And where do you-] I'm sorry, where do you educate? | 144.6720 |
97 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 145.3295 | At /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School. | 146.6771 |
98 | VLD_int_01 | 151.4461 | What do you | 151.9823 |
100 | | 152.3273 | educate | 152.7750 |
102 | | 153.0769 | the children in, at Valdosta High School? | 154.3779 |
103 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 154.4805 | Valdosta. | 155.8403 |
104 | VLD_int_01 | 156.6487 | You educate them in [Valdosta? I no, (laughing) what] do you- what subject? | 160.2613 |
105 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 157.1709 | [<laugh>] | 159.1247 |
106 | | 160.3219 | Oh subject matter, oh I'm so sorry. English language arts. | 163.1197 |
107 | VLD_int_01 | 169.4507 | Where was your father born? | 170.5558 |
108 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 171.4966 | I do not know. | 172.5149 |
109 | VLD_int_01 | 173.6975 | What about your mom? | 174.3223 |
110 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 175.1290 | I am not sure. | 176.1781 |
112 | | 180.7707 | We didn't talk about those things. | 182.3973 |
114 | | 182.7179 | We don't ask questions like that. | 184.2566 |
115 | VLD_int_01 | 184.7929 | Hm. | 185.0074 |
116 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 185.2545 | And we didn't ask questions like that. | 187.0031 |
117 | VLD_int_01 | 187.3108 | So do you know what your dad did for a doz- do you know what your dad does for a living, or did for a living? | 191.6415 |
118 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 192.4482 | Uh, he was in the military. And he now works as a contractor for the military. | 197.1099 |
120 | | 197.7627 | In the safety department. | 199.2456 |
122 | | 199.8238 | But exactly what he does, I am not sure. | 202.1540 |
123 | VLD_int_01 | 202.4385 | And what about your mom? | 203.2219 |
124 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 203.6555 | She worked at a hospital. | 204.7839 |
126 | | 206.4346 | She did. | 207.2599 |
127 | VLD_int_01 | 209.1799 | [What did she-] | 209.5483 |
128 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 209.1985 | [She gave] me a look. | 210.3922 |
129 | VLD_int_01 | 210.6300 | What did she- | 211.0316 |
131 | | 211.6932 | what did she do at the hospital? | 212.8496 |
132 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 213.1096 | She worked in food services. | 214.7975 |
133 | VLD_int_01 | 215.5622 | And hospitality. | 216.7746 |
134 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 220.5830 | <exhale> | 221.6648 |
135 | VLD_int_01 | 225.9284 | How long have we known each other? | 227.0773 |
136 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 228.2570 | All your [life.] | 229.4787 |
137 | VLD_int_01 | 228.9565 | [<laugh>] | 232.6460 |
138 | | 234.5321 | Um. | 235.5300 |
140 | | 236.7085 | Excellent. Okay. | 237.7251 |
142 | | 238.4086 | So I'm gonna stop typing now. | 239.8595 |
143 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 240.8539 | You're typing what I'm [saying?] | 242.4812 |
144 | VLD_int_01 | 242.3833 | [No.] I was not typing whatchu were saying. I was answering the questions on my little form. | 245.9026 |
145 | | 246.4762 | But now, | 246.8632 |
146 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 247.6279 | Oh, so you weren't even engaging in the conversation? | 249.9908 |
147 | VLD_int_01 | 250.0421 | I was engaging. | 250.8442 |
148 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 251.5856 | That is sad. (whispered) | 252.4622 |
149 | VLD_int_01 | 252.6767 | But now we're back- we're back. | 253.7165 |
151 | | 254.1408 | Okay, so | 254.9941 |
153 | | 255.1142 | you were born in Mia- I didn't know you were born in Miami actually. | 257.3151 |
154 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 257.6042 | Yes. | 258.6114 |
155 | VLD_int_01 | 259.0450 | I didn't know that. When did you move? | 260.3180 |
157 | | 260.7237 | How- Wait, how were you bor- I- [I mean] how were you born? I mean I know how you were born. | 264.2337 |
158 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 262.1494 | [<laugh>] | 262.3825 |
159 | VLD_int_01 | 264.3829 | Came through the vaginal canal, all that. | 265.9870 |
160 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 266.0432 | Wait, maybe not. | 267.0361 |
161 | VLD_int_01 | 267.1562 | Maybe not. [In fact, were] you C-section? | 268.8115 |
162 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 267.7204 | [You know-] | 268.1074 |
163 | | 269.5762 | I don't know. We didn't ask those [questions remember?] | 272.1875 |
164 | VLD_int_01 | 271.4408 | [Oh.] | 271.7305 |
165 | | 272.2434 | <cough> that's right, Okay. | 273.2226 |
167 | | 273.4826 | So you were born | 274.2986 |
169 | | 274.8162 | [in Miami.] | 275.5622 |
170 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 274.8208 | [Mm-hm.] | 275.2032 |
171 | | 275.7954 | [Miami, Florida.] | 276.6300 |
172 | VLD_int_01 | 275.9399 | [And how did you-] | 276.6067 |
173 | | 276.9899 | Huh? | 277.3248 |
174 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 277.8517 | Miami, [Florida.] | 279.0501 |
175 | VLD_int_01 | 278.8123 | [Miam-] How did you come back to Valdosta? | 280.4198 |
176 | | 280.6716 | Or how- When- when did you come back to Valdosta? | 282.4210 |
177 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 283.1628 | /RD-NAME-2/, I do not know these answers (laughing), | 286.0048 |
179 | | 286.8721 | to these questions, | 288.1638 |
181 | | 288.3922 | that you are asking me. | 289.5953 |
182 | VLD_int_01 | 289.9636 | Okay. | 290.3040 |
183 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 291.0116 | Alright. | 291.5152 |
184 | VLD_int_01 | 291.5152 | So what is the earliest- Okay, but you remember coming- when you came back. | 294.6627 |
186 | | 294.9425 | You remember living- | 295.9310 |
188 | | 296.3367 | Did you live next door? | 297.3858 |
190 | | 298.4944 | When you came back? | 299.3244 |
191 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 301.7212 | I've lived next door. | 302.9941 |
193 | | 303.5106 | I've lived other places in Valdosta. | 305.6648 |
194 | VLD_int_01 | 305.8840 | I know, but when you were younger. That's what I'm asking. | 307.7118 |
195 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 307.8517 | But I've lived other places in Valdosta. With my mother, my sister. | 311.9772 |
196 | VLD_int_01 | 312.6580 | Okay, so when you first came back, when you were [youn-] | 314.6317 |
197 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 314.5687 | [I] was a baby okay? (yelling) | 316.2706 |
198 | VLD_int_01 | 316.3079 | I know, that's why I'm asking. | 317.8047 |
199 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 317.8187 | How would I remember? Oh- | 319.2782 |
200 | VLD_int_01 | 321.1096 | Okay. | 321.4266 |
201 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 321.4453 | Oh next door. | 322.1960 |
202 | VLD_int_01 | 322.8208 | <laugh> | 323.4783 |
204 | | 324.4109 | Thank [you.] | 324.7653 |
205 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 324.6534 | [That] was the answer? [Oh well sorry.] | 326.5838 |
206 | VLD_int_01 | 325.4973 | [Yes. (laughing)] | 326.5558 |
207 | | 326.9230 | You did live next- Okay. | 327.9815 |
208 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 327.9815 | I did. | 328.5924 |
209 | VLD_int_01 | 328.6157 | So what's your earliest memory of gro- Okay so when you lived there- | 331.7725 |
211 | | 332.2201 | Of growing up. Just growing up. In- | 333.8649 |
213 | | 334.1680 | living next door cause it was- I remember, | 336.0752 |
215 | | 336.6907 | when I came, but I was- you were much older when I | 338.5745 |
217 | | 338.8718 | got here. | 339.3893 |
218 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 339.4266 | I wasn't that much older. | 340.5411 |
219 | VLD_int_01 | 341.3897 | You were a teenager. | 342.1031 |
220 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 343.7212 | That's ten years. | 344.6771 |
221 | VLD_int_01 | 345.5805 | [Plus.] | 346.2823 |
222 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 345.7857 | [Maybe twelve.] | 346.7229 |
223 | VLD_int_01 | 348.2483 | Fourteen. (whispered) | 348.6894 |
224 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 349.0264 | Okay fourteen. | 350.0009 |
225 | VLD_int_01 | 350.8764 | <laugh> | 351.2774 |
227 | | 352.2520 | Okay when you grew up- Okay. | 353.3058 |
228 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 354.2943 | Do you have your list of questions that I may see? | 356.5418 |
229 | VLD_int_01 | 357.2028 | Why do you need to see the [questions?] | 358.3523 |
230 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 358.0281 | [Cause I] think you're just making up (laughing) stuff cause- | 360.2524 |
231 | VLD_int_01 | 361.5067 | No, this is part of the questions [you're just], you're answering- | 364.1494 |
232 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 362.6969 | [Oh.] | 362.9907 |
233 | VLD_int_01 | 365.4830 | You're answering the way you want to answer. So then I have to adapt. | 368.7423 |
235 | | 372.3876 | Okay. | 372.8166 |
237 | | 373.0730 | So growing up, what do you remember about the neighborhood? | 375.2739 |
239 | | 375.5805 | When you were younger. | 376.3452 |
240 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 382.2986 | What do I remember about this neighborhood? | 384.2990 |
241 | VLD_int_01 | 384.3176 | Mm-hm. | 384.6720 |
242 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 387.5805 | That it was a neighborhood. Not a hood, | 390.4524 |
244 | | 390.5420 | as the kids try to say now, that it was a neighborhood. | 393.3205 |
246 | | 393.7111 | Uh, excuse me. | 394.4711 |
248 | | 395.8094 | That- | 396.1777 |
250 | | 397.6093 | I mean, what- | 398.1519 |
252 | | 403.4367 | There weren't a whole lot of ki- I mean I'm sure there were kids | 405.9571 |
254 | | 406.0839 | in the bigger neighborhood. That were- But there were not a lot of kids | 409.0590 |
256 | | 409.4880 | in this neighbor- this part of the neighborhood. But | 411.9070 |
258 | | 412.5224 | The older people watched out for you. I remember Ms. Sister, | 416.1119 |
260 | | 416.6386 | you know. And | 417.3847 |
262 | | 417.5432 | going to the grocery for her. Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ and her sister Ms. Rachel. | 421.3295 |
264 | | 421.7958 | I can't remember Mr.- um, | 423.1946 |
266 | | 424.2240 | Mr. Squirrel, his mother lived across the street so they all watched out for us, told on us. Ms. L even. | 430.3266 |
268 | | 430.8348 | When I was | 431.3431 |
270 | | 431.5856 | thirty years old, you know. Keeping up with what we were doing. Yeah, neighborhoood. | 435.6038 |
272 | | 436.2007 | People looking out for you, watching out for you. | 438.2897 |
274 | | 438.8212 | [Watching] over you. [You watching out f-] | 440.6083 |
275 | VLD_int_01 | 438.8539 | [/See-/] | 439.0917 |
277 | | 439.7725 | [There weren't a lot of kids?] | 441.2040 |
278 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 441.6365 | There were kids, but- | 442.5504 |
280 | | 443.4177 | Now my sister may have hung out with other kids, | 446.2254 |
282 | | 447.1702 | I didn't go beyond, | 448.6986 |
284 | | 448.8221 | certain | 449.4550 |
286 | | 451.7352 | parameters of the neighborhood. | 453.3858 |
288 | | 454.4292 | You know what I'm saying. | 455.2125 |
290 | | 455.7814 | Like, you wouldn't find me | 457.2502 |
292 | | 457.9916 | on river- What's this street? River street? which is just a couple blocks away but just like right in here? Yes. | 463.0490 |
293 | VLD_int_01 | 464.3507 | Did you ride your bike? | 465.4733 |
294 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 465.7297 | Oh lor- But I didn't get a bike until I was ten. | 468.0285 |
296 | | 468.3969 | That was a ten speed. | 469.4507 |
298 | | 469.9963 | And your mom sent that to me from Oklahoma. | 472.0794 |
300 | | 473.2265 | You know the story? | 474.1171 |
301 | VLD_int_01 | 474.1544 | Mm-mm. | 474.5741 |
302 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 474.6114 | Oh I loved riding that bike. Oh man. | 477.5071 |
304 | | 478.1214 | And I for someth- something within my spirit told me like, this will be the only bike I will ever have. | 483.4779 |
306 | | 484.0934 | And I would ride that bike to the Zippy Market. | 486.5601 |
308 | | 487.0217 | Oh that's that country side coming out, Zippy Market, convenience store. | 490.1307 |
310 | | 490.7789 | Uh, the grocery store that used to be right up there, it used to be several names, but | 494.7144 |
312 | | 496.0142 | what was the last name? | 497.1845 |
313 | VLD_int_01 | 498.3036 | Uh, Harvey's or Pick 'n Save? | 499.8657 |
314 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 499.9823 | Yeah, but it- yeah, but it was another name. But anyway, and then one- I never forget, one day it was raining. | 504.8212 |
316 | | 505.5999 | And I don't know why I went behind, | 507.1235 |
318 | | 507.3131 | I guess trying to, beat the traffic. | 509.1193 |
320 | | 509.6042 | And I rode across those little grids that they have in there. | 512.6164 |
322 | | 513.1387 | And it bent the wheel. | 514.2053 |
324 | | 515.2405 | And I dragged that bike all the way back down here, | 518.5824 |
326 | | 518.6624 | /RD-ADDRESS-5/, crying and screaming. | 520.6297 |
328 | | 521.0540 | You thought I had been attacked with something. No, my bike cause I thought would never | 524.5698 |
330 | | 525.0762 | have a bike again. | 526.3007 |
332 | | 526.4642 | And I never ever ever had another bike. | 528.1684 |
334 | | 529.6792 | Isn't that sad? | 530.5045 |
335 | VLD_int_01 | 532.2520 | So how'd you get the bike? | 533.2592 |
336 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 533.6648 | Yo- I just- | 534.4482 |
337 | VLD_int_01 | 534.5228 | I know, but how- but did you ask for the bike or she just sent it to you? | 537.9349 |
338 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 537.9396 | I think she just sent it to- I don't- I don't ask for anything. | 540.4342 |
340 | | 541.7864 | We couldn't really afford anything. I didn't really- | 543.8510 |
342 | | 544.3312 | like a Easter dress, I didn't ask for that. And the shoes, I didn't ask for that. She just sent it to me. | 548.1735 |
343 | VLD_int_01 | 549.2588 | Hm. All this was all the same year? | 550.8395 |
344 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 551.2965 | I can't say it was the same [year. I can't put-] | 553.4973 |
345 | VLD_int_01 | 552.7047 | [Oh but just at different] times. | 553.9590 |
346 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 553.9636 | Yeah. | 554.4486 |
348 | | 554.5978 | So I didn't ask for stuff. No. | 556.1634 |
349 | VLD_int_01 | 557.0400 | Mkay so, you were the older sister. | 558.6813 |
350 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 558.9471 | I [am.] | 559.4041 |
351 | VLD_int_01 | 559.0963 | [Okay.] So, | 559.7725 |
352 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 560.7190 | It cr- | 561.1795 |
354 | | 561.4266 | In years, | 562.2660 |
356 | | 562.4292 | yes. <laugh> | 564.6627 |
358 | | 564.9984 | In experience, | 566.0056 |
360 | | 566.2621 | No. (laughing) | 566.9662 |
361 | VLD_int_01 | 567.3800 | What does that mean? | 568.0841 |
362 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 568.7696 | What does that mean? You said I'm the older sister. | 570.6534 |
364 | | 571.0637 | My younger sister, | 572.1315 |
366 | | 572.4113 | she has actually done everything | 573.8043 |
368 | | 574.0468 | before I have. | 574.9794 |
369 | VLD_int_01 | 575.9353 | What do you mean by that? | 576.7000 |
371 | | 578.1362 | [I mean] you said- | 578.8076 |
372 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 578.1455 | [<exhale>] | 578.4999 |
373 | VLD_int_01 | 578.9930 | But I'm just trying to make sure I'm not assuming anything. | 581.3804 |
374 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 581.7115 | Uh, okay. | 582.4808 |
376 | | 583.4740 | Um. | 584.2027 |
378 | | 586.4431 | Wa- okay. | 587.0866 |
380 | | 587.8420 | Fighting, | 588.5741 |
381 | VLD_int_01 | 588.9098 | <laugh> | 589.2735 |
382 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 589.2922 | boyfriends, | 590.1082 |
384 | | 590.2667 | dating. The junior prom, senior prom. | 592.6623 |
386 | | 592.9934 | She's done all of that. | 593.9772 |
388 | | 594.2570 | Married, two kids. The two kids are old enough to have two [kids.] | 597.4826 |
389 | VLD_int_01 | 597.2774 | [<laugh>] | 599.3757 |
390 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 597.7857 | [If they wanna have kids (laughing)] | 599.2452 |
391 | | 599.3851 | <laugh> | 600.6813 |
393 | | 601.1430 | So I'm just saying, she has done everything first. | 603.3299 |
395 | | 604.5224 | But not everything. Things that | 606.0332 |
397 | | 606.5321 | people talk about. | 607.3808 |
398 | VLD_int_01 | 608.4905 | Mm. | 608.7750 |
400 | | 609.7111 | So tell me about, | 610.6996 |
402 | | 612.5554 | when you- Okay. So you had the [bike.] | 614.3600 |
403 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 614.2621 | [Had] a bike, yes. | 615.5059 |
404 | VLD_int_01 | 615.5246 | And then you | 616.0515 |
406 | | 616.6810 | lost your bike. | 617.4550 |
407 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 617.7394 | [Yes.] | 618.5181 |
408 | VLD_int_01 | 618.1824 | [Or you] bent your bike. | 619.1150 |
409 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 619.1430 | And- but I really lost it, cause who would fix it? | 621.1807 |
410 | VLD_int_01 | 622.1634 | Nobody in the neighborhood fix it [for you?] | 624.0472 |
411 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 623.6042 | [Mm-mm], see I don't have friends like that. | 625.4554 |
412 | | 626.1502 | And nobody in my grandmother's house, fixed it for- | 628.2566 |
414 | | 628.6110 | I don't even know what happened to the bike. | 629.8467 |
416 | | 630.8598 | Except my wheel got bent. | 632.0662 |
417 | VLD_int_01 | 633.7064 | Mm. | 634.0188 |
418 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 635.0167 | Isn't that something. | 636.0145 |
419 | VLD_int_01 | 637.0684 | I mean I- I didn't know that story- I never knew about the bike. | 639.4266 |
420 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 640.1028 | Really? | 640.5924 |
422 | | 640.8302 | [A] great ten speed, yes. | 642.6207 |
423 | VLD_int_01 | 640.8395 | [I-] | 640.9794 |
424 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 643.0449 | But anyway I hope this is not all about the bike. (laughing) | 645.3812 |
425 | VLD_int_01 | 645.4733 | It's not all about the bike, well I just- I never knew about | 647.9306 |
427 | | 648.6021 | the bike. | 649.0590 |
428 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 649.4461 | [Mm.] | 649.7352 |
429 | VLD_int_01 | 649.5440 | [Okay], so I remember- | 650.5652 |
430 | | 651.0781 | Did you often come- did you come visit us in Oklahoma a lot? | 653.7254 |
431 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 654.4622 | <laugh> | 655.6419 |
433 | | 656.2900 | I've been to Oklahoma maybe three times. | 658.0706 |
435 | | 658.2007 | I think three times. I loved out- in Oklahoma. I loved the air. I loved what it did for my skin, | 663.3939 |
437 | | 663.7810 | my hair, I loved Oklahoma. | 665.5016 |
439 | | 666.8492 | It was just being alone in Oklahoma that was the problem. | 669.4325 |
440 | VLD_int_01 | 669.5665 | Mm. | 669.9722 |
442 | | 670.4758 | You- you didn't like to be by yourself? | 671.9493 |
443 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 672.4141 | Uh, Oklahoma, | 673.6405 |
445 | | 673.7512 | certain places I would be in, | 675.3926 |
447 | | 676.1246 | had spirits, | 677.0199 |
448 | VLD_int_01 | 677.6494 | <laugh> | 678.6613 |
450 | | 679.0529 | What does that- | 679.4819 |
451 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 679.9144 | Spirits, what does that mean? You know what a spirit is. | 682.0734 |
453 | | 682.4744 | <sound effect> | 683.8499 |
454 | VLD_int_01 | 685.5834 | <laugh> Okay. | 686.9636 |
456 | | 688.2552 | You had the- the [spirits?] | 689.5095 |
457 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 689.3044 | [I'm] sorry. | 690.0318 |
458 | VLD_int_01 | 690.5540 | Were you scared? | 691.3327 |
459 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 692.7677 | Your brother took me to the bus station Greyhound. Put me on a bus at two o'clock in the morning. | 697.5845 |
461 | | 697.9098 | Of course I was afraid. (yelling) | 699.4205 |
462 | VLD_int_01 | 699.5977 | Oh okay, so [it was-] | 700.5490 |
463 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 700.2552 | [And she] was afraid. And she had to go to work. | 702.4654 |
464 | VLD_int_01 | 702.9259 | So a little bit afraid? | 704.1056 |
465 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 705.6444 | [Yes.] | 706.2459 |
466 | VLD_int_01 | 705.9941 | [A little] bit afraid- [Okay.] | 707.0945 |
467 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 706.6795 | [Yeah.] | 707.1365 |
468 | VLD_int_01 | 708.8839 | <laugh> | 709.4062 |
469 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 709.9936 | Minnie you don't understand. | 711.2946 |
470 | VLD_int_01 | 711.3086 | I don't. That's why I'm trying to understand. | 713.1645 |
472 | | 713.9272 | Like you've told me some stories, but I don't know a lot of [stories.] | 716.8377 |
473 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 716.4740 | [Well] your brother will have to tell you that one. | 718.2692 |
474 | VLD_int_01 | 718.7914 | About the- [about-] about the [spirits?] | 721.1788 |
475 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 719.5468 | [Spirits.] | 720.3115 |
477 | | 720.9037 | [Mm-hm.] | 721.3141 |
478 | VLD_int_01 | 721.5787 | Were you at our house? | 722.4926 |
479 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 722.5299 | Yes. | 723.1641 |
480 | VLD_int_01 | 723.8169 | Oh, was I born? | 724.8614 |
481 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 724.8800 | Yes. | 725.8779 |
482 | VLD_int_01 | 726.3535 | How old was I? | 726.8653 |
483 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 727.3129 | That was the time when you had the tooth sticking out above the tooth. | 730.0314 |
485 | | 730.3251 | So how old were you? | 731.1785 |
486 | VLD_int_01 | 732.0891 | [Had to be like maybe] six, [seven.] | 733.7745 |
487 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 732.1297 | [Ten?] | 732.6006 |
489 | | 733.3447 | [Oh.] | 733.7550 |
490 | | 734.6698 | Nah, you were big. | 735.5604 |
492 | | 736.3158 | Seven? | 736.7961 |
493 | VLD_int_01 | 737.2577 | Eight? | 737.5515 |
494 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 737.9851 | Nah you were- Mm-mm. | 739.4959 |
496 | | 740.6512 | You were younger than that. | 741.5278 |
497 | VLD_int_01 | 743.4282 | Eh- if you just said ten and I said eight and you said younger than that. | 746.0674 |
499 | | 747.5969 | <laugh> | 748.2590 |
500 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 748.7614 | You were younger than ten, | 750.1559 |
502 | | 750.3227 | you were younger than eight. | 751.4006 |
503 | VLD_int_01 | 751.9415 | So six. | 752.9767 |
504 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 753.5782 | Or seven. Somewhere in there, but you were a big girl. | 756.2116 |
505 | VLD_int_01 | 757.0043 | Okay. | 757.4566 |
506 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 757.9788 | And- and you got scared so you left. | 759.8160 |
508 | | 761.1624 | It wasn't that simple. Your mom decided it would be best for me to [leave. (laughing)] | 766.4688 |
509 | VLD_int_01 | 765.1492 | [<laugh>] | 766.9724 |
510 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 766.9504 | The facilities- So that she could get some rest. | 769.3727 |
511 | VLD_int_01 | 769.6851 | Uh. | 769.8343 |
512 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 769.8576 | My spirit could rest, | 771.1086 |
514 | | 771.2054 | /I come home/ (laughing). | 772.7020 |
516 | | 773.2184 | So I could come on home. | 774.3561 |
517 | VLD_int_01 | 774.4681 | Okay. | 774.8737 |
518 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 774.9110 | Okay. | 775.4146 |
519 | VLD_int_01 | 775.6478 | So tell us about- Okay, so tell me about s- | 777.7461 |
521 | | 778.0771 | Going to school. | 778.8838 |
522 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 779.6940 | I loved school. | 780.8737 |
524 | | 781.6991 | School was my sanctuary. | 783.3824 |
525 | VLD_int_01 | 784.7195 | Really? | 785.2091 |
526 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 785.4795 | Yes. | 786.1976 |
528 | | 786.5100 | [Yes.] | 787.0975 |
529 | VLD_int_01 | 787.0276 | [Were] you always a good student? | 788.1327 |
530 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 788.6083 | I wouldn't say a great student, or a good student. I just- school was my sanctuary. I'll never forget. | 792.9670 |
532 | | 793.7037 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Elementary was just what? A few blocks away. | 796.5574 |
534 | | 796.7859 | Which we walked to school. | 798.2349 |
536 | | 798.7618 | Hm. | 798.9623 |
538 | | 799.3447 | Something someone else did not do. | 801.3964 |
539 | VLD_int_01 | 801.6062 | I don't know what you're talking about. | 802.5434 |
540 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 802.8465 | /RD-SCHOOL-4/ | 803.8024 |
542 | | 804.0251 | [You-] | 804.4214 |
543 | VLD_int_01 | 804.0344 | [Mm-hm.] | 804.4354 |
544 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 804.9437 | We [walked.] | 805.6618 |
545 | VLD_int_01 | 805.1582 | [Are you] implying that someone in this room did not walk to school? | 808.0212 |
546 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 808.0165 | Exactly. | 808.7719 |
547 | | 809.4562 | But I won't say anymore, but anyway, we walked to school and that was during the time when- | 813.2285 |
549 | | 813.7626 | Oh gosh I can't remember the man's name, but it was the killing of the children in Atlanta. | 817.8576 |
551 | | 818.3938 | Remember? | 818.9347 |
553 | | 819.5642 | Oh you weren't- You weren't [born then.] | 821.1729 |
554 | VLD_int_01 | 820.3010 | [Really], something. | 821.7185 |
555 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 822.1323 | Mm-hm. And so like, so afraid. But just | 824.8881 |
557 | | 825.2518 | excited about school and when I would get to school. And | 827.8246 |
559 | | 828.2629 | Our teacher would pull up, Oh gosh, Mrs. /RD-NAME-2/ that was her name. Which | 832.1144 |
561 | | 832.4132 | I actually went to /RD-SCHOOL-1/ school first, but anyway | 834.7385 |
563 | | 836.0255 | right over here at /RD-SCHOOL-3/ elementary. | 837.7321 |
565 | | 838.4170 | We would run to her car. We would race to her car, the students. | 840.9996 |
567 | | 841.5301 | They'd bring her things back to the classroom. That was, | 843.6901 |
569 | | 844.1564 | the second semester of third grade. | 846.1183 |
571 | | 846.8318 | And I remember reading stories and doing the multiplication and we would have to | 850.2269 |
573 | | 850.4104 | race each other or whatever. | 851.7511 |
575 | | 853.0089 | Loved it. | 853.4846 |
577 | | 854.9927 | Ham bone. | 855.7802 |
579 | | 855.9103 | She'd play that beating her chest but she would also throw erasers at us, if we were misbehave. | 859.9275 |
581 | | 860.5011 | She also would | 861.1539 |
583 | | 861.6667 | hit our hands with a little ruler. I don't know if that was legal or not, but. | 864.8317 |
585 | | 865.4286 | Hey, we were | 866.0581 |
587 | | 866.2120 | six, seven, eight years old. | 867.8440 |
589 | | 869.2697 | She's still my favorite teacher. | 870.6872 |
590 | VLD_int_01 | 871.3353 | Ms. /RD-NAME-2/. | 871.9322 |
591 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 871.9322 | Ms. /RD-NAME-6/. | 873.3077 |
592 | VLD_int_01 | 874.1890 | She still living? | 874.9817 |
593 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 875.2429 | I'm not sure. She was on the board of education. | 878.1420 |
594 | VLD_int_01 | 878.8788 | Oh. | 879.2751 |
596 | | 879.8440 | Recent like, [in the last few-] Oh, [okay.] | 881.8490 |
597 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 880.5527 | [Mm-hm.] | 880.9911 |
599 | | 881.3454 | [Mm-hm.] | 881.8304 |
600 | VLD_int_01 | 882.9157 | And then- So that was third grade. What about- | 884.9021 |
602 | | 885.1632 | So- and, | 885.6948 |
604 | | 885.8486 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ used to be like | 887.0144 |
606 | | 887.3956 | before it went to middle sch- cause it was middle school at one [point.] | 890.3752 |
607 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 889.7923 | [Never.] | 890.3099 |
608 | | 892.9491 | No, /RD-SCHOOL-3/ was always elem- they done went to fifth and sixth [grade.] | 895.9695 |
609 | VLD_int_01 | 895.7317 | [That's] what I mean, like | 896.5524 |
610 | | 896.6503 | f- It was fourth and fifth grade. | 898.0771 |
611 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 898.2357 | four, fifth [or then six- yeah] | 900.2582 |
612 | VLD_int_01 | 898.7766 | [Before you moved over to s- Mm-hm.] | 900.3515 |
613 | | 900.7618 | So, but now it's back to like, [up to fifth, /three/-] Up to fifth grade or something [like that.] | 904.6880 |
614 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 902.2306 | [Elementary.] | 902.9860 |
616 | | 904.2497 | [Right.] | 904.6926 |
617 | | 904.9118 | [Right.] | 905.3128 |
618 | VLD_int_01 | 905.0470 | [So] for you it was up to fifth grade? | 906.7665 |
619 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 907.1348 | Right. | 907.5172 |
620 | VLD_int_01 | 907.6244 | Okay, so then when you left /RD-SCHOOL-3/ where'd you go? | 909.6761 |
621 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 910.7334 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ | 911.6194 |
622 | VLD_int_01 | 912.7058 | [Junior] | 913.2607 |
623 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 912.7198 | [Junior] High. Which is /RD-SCHOOL-3/ middle school, but they- | 915.2565 |
624 | | 915.8207 | you know, tore it down. And | 917.4795 |
626 | | 918.2349 | made it new so. | 919.3260 |
628 | | 919.8063 | It's so sad, all the buildings that I re- Can you imagine? They've torn them down. /RD-SCHOOL-3/ elementary, | 924.6685 |
630 | | 925.0509 | <sound effect> | 925.3260 |
632 | | 925.7876 | they just knocked it down. Built a new school and then renamed it. | 928.6553 |
634 | | 930.8131 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Junior High, knocked it down, | 933.0140 |
636 | | 933.4709 | renamed it. | 934.1750 |
637 | VLD_int_01 | 936.0810 | /RD-SCHOOL-2/ [High School-] | 936.9670 |
638 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 936.6546 | [That's sad] to me. Now /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School is moving. | 939.2564 |
639 | | 939.6347 | And that saddens me as well. I'm not as excited as the | 942.1370 |
641 | | 944.0021 | other teachers and faculty members. They're all like, oh it take- | 946.8139 |
643 | | 947.1251 | It's three miles to walk around the school, blah blah blah. | 950.0161 |
645 | | 951.0513 | That doesn't excite me. | 952.0538 |
646 | VLD_int_01 | 954.3888 | So what was- | 954.9436 |
648 | | 955.1581 | Did you- | 955.5965 |
650 | | 955.6990 | Were you- | 956.1234 |
652 | | 956.2213 | Did you have any fond memories of /RD-SCHOOL-3/ middle school, or | 958.5722 |
654 | | 958.6623 | I'm sorry. /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Junior High? | 959.7698 |
655 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 962.3752 | Mm, /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Junior High, I got involved in sports. | 964.8698 |
657 | | 965.6007 | But, I mean I- everyday was a great day for me at school. | 968.5150 |
659 | | 968.6876 | I could even remember | 969.4896 |
661 | | 969.8315 | cursing. Well actually, I wrote a girl a note cussing her out. | 972.9670 |
663 | | 973.5918 | And she gave the note to the science teacher and he took me outside. | 976.8791 |
665 | | 977.3116 | And he told me that I was an ath- student athlete, blah blah blah. | 980.4171 |
667 | | 980.8974 | And how great I was and I don't need to do this and that's why I don't curse. | 984.4641 |
668 | VLD_int_01 | 986.6643 | And that happened in the seventh grade? | 987.9232 |
669 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 988.1424 | Seventh gr- seventh or eighth grade. | 989.8770 |
671 | | 989.9458 | Cause it was /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Junior High School then. Yeah. | 992.2819 |
673 | | 993.4196 | I think it was seventh grade. | 994.5014 |
675 | | 995.9225 | I know you know these [stories stop (laughing)] | 998.2026 |
676 | VLD_int_01 | 996.7477 | [I- I don't know.] | 998.2353 |
677 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 998.4451 | [It's not even the whole] story. I'm just telling you little clips so we can move on. | 1001.9085 |
678 | VLD_int_01 | 998.4451 | [No I don't.] | 999.2243 |
679 | | 1002.3888 | But I don't, but that's why I'm inter- like, I don't know that. | 1004.8881 |
681 | | 1005.3684 | Like I really don't, like, I'm [asking like I] | 1007.2288 |
682 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1006.5201 | [Mm-hm.] | 1007.2475 |
683 | | 1007.3862 | Cause she wrote me a cur- I can't even remember her name now. | 1010.0021 |
685 | | 1010.8554 | I could see her face sitting in science class. | 1013.0237 |
687 | | 1013.2370 | <laugh> Okay, I got something for you. | 1015.4472 |
689 | | 1015.9508 | And I wrote it up. | 1016.7762 |
691 | | 1017.0326 | And I gave it to her. | 1018.0118 |
693 | | 1018.3009 | She- | 1018.5387 |
695 | | 1018.8558 | Mr. /RD-NAME-2/, that was his name. Mr. /RD-NAME-2/. | 1020.9716 |
696 | VLD_int_01 | 1022.2306 | And he told you don't cuss cause you a sci- a [student athlete?] | 1025.1496 |
697 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1024.5341 | [Well, you know] to that, I mean there was- back- this is not me. I'm a student athlete, blah blah blah. | 1029.0513 |
698 | | 1029.4709 | So did I get into trouble? No, but him talking to me like that, boy, that just made an impression on me. | 1033.9851 |
700 | | 1034.5197 | For | 1034.9720 |
702 | | 1035.7647 | [thirty] years. Yeah. | 1037.1496 |
703 | VLD_int_01 | 1035.7740 | [Okay.] | 1036.1284 |
704 | | 1037.5261 | What sports did you play? | 1038.4680 |
705 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1042.3662 | Basketball and track. | 1044.5240 |
706 | VLD_int_01 | 1045.1628 | Were you good? | 1045.7130 |
707 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1046.6363 | Mm. | 1047.2098 |
709 | | 1047.6761 | So-so. | 1048.2683 |
710 | VLD_int_01 | 1050.7198 | Hm. | 1050.9670 |
712 | | 1051.2794 | Mkay. | 1051.6431 |
714 | | 1053.0886 | What was your favorite subject in high s- I mean, in- What was your favorite subject up to this point? | 1057.0835 |
715 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1064.5570 | I don't know. I'd have to think about that because I had great teachers. | 1067.4946 |
717 | | 1068.1743 | Social studies we had to do- Mrs. /RD-NAME-1/. I had great teachers. | 1071.9792 |
719 | | 1072.4501 | Ms.- Like I said, Mrs. /RD-NAME-1/ was social studies with all those presidents projects. | 1076.3845 |
721 | | 1076.7109 | I should know all forty- which one is this? forty five? | 1079.5692 |
723 | | 1079.7499 | <laugh> | 1080.7291 |
725 | | 1081.0416 | I should know all of them. | 1082.3145 |
727 | | 1082.7715 | Um, | 1083.3963 |
729 | | 1083.6248 | Like I said, Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ in third grade, | 1085.7744 |
731 | | 1086.2255 | had a math teacher in fifth grade. Mr. /RD-NAME-3/ who was a | 1089.5176 |
733 | | 1090.2963 | teacher when I was in fifth grade. Then became an assistant principle. I don't know if he became a principal principal, but then got into trouble. So I don't know where he is now. | 1098.0250 |
735 | | 1098.7058 | So, | 1099.3307 |
737 | | 1099.9089 | <ts> I'm just trying to think like | 1101.0751 |
739 | | 1102.3196 | gosh, if I could just remember all of their names. | 1104.8737 |
741 | | 1106.0767 | My first language arts teacher that I- r- It was the end of the school year. She started reading- | 1110.2908 |
743 | | 1110.9436 | reading Edgar Allen Poe to us. And I don't remember what t- uh- the story was, | 1115.0516 |
745 | | 1115.6205 | but she was sitting on top of the desk. It was so interesting and just like. | 1118.6130 |
747 | | 1119.1399 | Moment by moment what was she gonna s- This was fourth grade. | 1121.5879 |
749 | | 1122.0810 | What she was going to say. And | 1123.6571 |
751 | | 1124.0627 | she never finished [reading the whole story. (laughing)] | 1126.3569 |
752 | VLD_int_01 | 1125.0046 | [<laugh>] | 1127.4853 |
753 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1128.3002 | But anyway. | 1128.9669 |
754 | VLD_int_01 | 1129.3260 | [Is that how] you started [is that-] | 1131.1911 |
755 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1129.3307 | [What wa-] | 1129.8389 |
757 | | 1130.6829 | [I'm not] sure cause I used to- like I said, math, I loved math. | 1134.3261 |
758 | | 1135.3260 | I loved- I loved school. | 1136.7762 |
760 | | 1137.3450 | I still love being at school. | 1138.9164 |
761 | VLD_int_01 | 1139.3773 | Oh we know. | 1139.9085 |
762 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1140.1773 | Even when they fight. I love- I wanna jump in the fight. Let me get in. | 1143.2082 |
764 | | 1143.5847 | [<laugh>] | 1145.8975 |
765 | VLD_int_01 | 1143.5894 | [<laugh> Oh lord.] | 1145.8882 |
766 | | 1146.2654 | You gonna be getting in enough fights. | 1147.8746 |
768 | | 1148.5693 | Um, so, | 1149.7945 |
770 | | 1150.1396 | the other question I wanna ask you is- Okay so, now we've | 1153.2164 |
772 | | 1153.3565 | left middle school, did co- the- not the coach, the teacher had a really- | 1156.2980 |
774 | | 1156.5686 | that | 1156.8157 |
776 | | 1156.9742 | [letter] | 1157.3892 |
777 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1157.2354 | [But], | 1157.4359 |
778 | VLD_int_01 | 1157.5338 | [/That he caught you-/ | 1158.2939 |
779 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1157.5524 | [But that was coach] that was- [he was a coach he was a football] [coach I -think]. Mm-hm. | 1161.1959 |
780 | VLD_int_01 | 1158.8347 | [He- he was a coach?] | 1159.8419 |
782 | | 1160.1823 | [Okay.] | 1160.7512 |
783 | | 1161.2361 | So he had a impact when he said that to you. [Just because] he was a coach that meant- | 1164.5643 |
784 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1163.0255 | [Well just-] | 1163.3613 |
785 | VLD_int_01 | 1165.3850 | That made it different. Because he knew how to talk to athletes? | 1168.7318 |
787 | | 1169.6271 | Do you think that made it different. Like as oppo- if he wasn't a coach that wouldn't have- | 1172.2196 |
789 | | 1172.4155 | it wouldn't have mattered to y- Not mattered, but it wouldn't have had the same | 1175.3613 |
791 | | 1175.4872 | it wouldn't have resonated with you the same way? | 1177.2218 |
792 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1178.4994 | Again, I mean just s- still thinking of the teachers that I've had. Ms. /RD-NAME-3/, | 1183.1332 |
794 | | 1183.7860 | all- Ms. /RD-NAME-2/, all the- | 1185.2401 |
796 | | 1185.3583 | like every teacher I've mentioned. My art teacher, they all had an impact on me. I love- | 1189.5829 |
798 | | 1189.9678 | Even when they were | 1190.5973 |
800 | | 1190.8305 | so called, mean or tough, | 1192.2980 |
802 | | 1193.0162 | I loved them. | 1193.9068 |
803 | VLD_int_01 | 1195.9025 | But I mean that- that whole moment about you're a student athlete. You're- don't cuss this girl- don't | 1200.2426 |
805 | | 1200.6156 | say cuss words or whatever. | 1201.7197 |
807 | | 1201.8765 | I didn't know he was a coach. I just- | 1203.1005 |
809 | | 1203.7805 | It was a slip, but I didn't realize he was a coach. | 1205.8283 |
810 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1207.0306 | I don't know, I just think that he- I mean, I didn't get into trouble, which I- | 1209.8132 |
812 | | 1210.2655 | I didn't get into trouble, I didn't go to the office, I didn't get suspended, whatever. | 1213.6694 |
814 | | 1214.1590 | Which I have spent a couple days in. | 1215.7164 |
816 | | 1216.3308 | What is it called? ESS? | 1217.7343 |
818 | | 1218.0560 | ISS? | 1218.8907 |
819 | VLD_int_01 | 1219.2964 | Oh [mm-hm.] | 1219.8041 |
820 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1219.6134 | [A] after school detention. I'm not even quite sure for what, cause I was not a bad student. | 1223.3976 |
821 | | 1224.5213 | And that's why I can't understand why I got whoopings. | 1226.4547 |
823 | | 1226.5682 | Cause I was not a bad child. | 1228.0173 |
825 | | 1228.9499 | But my sister was. | 1230.1576 |
827 | | 1230.8850 | And that maybe | 1231.6544 |
829 | | 1232.2712 | the reason. | 1232.8295 |
831 | | 1233.6303 | I was in ISS. | 1234.8054 |
833 | | 1236.2182 | My sister, | 1236.8617 |
834 | VLD_int_01 | 1237.9062 | We getting into some deep seated [/??/ issues.] | 1239.7460 |
835 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1239.3459 | [I know] I'm thinking on this stuff right now. (laughing) | 1241.9431 |
836 | | 1242.6099 | Okay what's your next [question?] | 1244.1254 |
837 | VLD_int_01 | 1243.8596 | [So,] going to high school, | 1245.3319 |
838 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1246.2691 | Mm-hm. | 1246.6655 |
839 | VLD_int_01 | 1246.6888 | You went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High [School.] | 1247.9751 |
840 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1247.8172 | [Absolutely.] | 1248.5260 |
841 | | 1249.8269 | Home of the marching cats. | 1251.0941 |
842 | VLD_int_01 | 1251.2293 | Yes. Pride and power of South Georgia. | 1253.2996 |
844 | | 1253.5794 | Love that. | 1254.1809 |
845 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1254.2421 | Hm. | 1254.4141 |
847 | | 1254.6192 | Was the football team good when you were there? | 1255.9948 |
849 | | 1256.2874 | Absolutely. Our football team was great, but whether they won or l- lost, | 1260.0830 |
851 | | 1260.5306 | they still were awesome. | 1261.5891 |
853 | | 1261.8596 | Cause I- I mean that was nineteen /blah blah/. | 1264.2785 |
855 | | 1265.0308 | And it were wonderful. | 1266.1352 |
856 | VLD_int_01 | 1267.7010 | Did they w- | 1268.1533 |
858 | | 1268.5532 | did you get any state championships while you were in high school? | 1271.0199 |
859 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1271.1597 | Before I graduated, yes. After I graduated, yes. | 1275.0848 |
861 | | 1275.6163 | [Several] times, [yes.] | 1277.2250 |
862 | VLD_int_01 | 1275.7003 | [Oh.] | 1275.9800 |
864 | | 1276.9406 | [Really?] | 1277.2483 |
865 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1277.3323 | Yes. | 1277.9058 |
866 | VLD_int_01 | 1278.0690 | Mm. | 1278.3861 |
868 | | 1278.5353 | I didn't- | 1278.7731 |
870 | | 1278.9503 | So how was [the- At the] | 1280.2093 |
871 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1279.3420 | [Right the school- the f-] | 1280.1067 |
872 | VLD_int_01 | 1280.4366 | [The football] team. [Yeah. How was the] atmosphere? | 1282.3904 |
873 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1280.4844 | [Yeah.] | 1280.9960 |
875 | | 1281.2713 | [And then the f-] | 1281.8296 |
876 | | 1282.5163 | I mean, | 1282.9639 |
877 | VLD_int_01 | 1283.2856 | Was [it?] | 1283.7426 |
878 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1283.5468 | [uh] | 1283.7100 |
879 | | 1284.0970 | what do you [mean how was the-] | 1285.1275 |
880 | VLD_int_01 | 1284.6519 | [Like was it] exciting. I mean when you were there, as a student. | 1287.7469 |
881 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1287.9707 | Always. From ninth grade being so awkward and odd. And | 1291.7383 |
883 | | 1291.8969 | You know, your body changing and growing. And | 1294.1292 |
885 | | 1294.6841 | you know, | 1295.1038 |
887 | | 1295.4022 | the groups, the clicks. And | 1297.0249 |
889 | | 1297.4632 | it is so odd now that I look at it thinking about the /gloop-/ groups and the clicks. | 1300.9033 |
891 | | 1302.1809 | Like in high school, | 1303.2348 |
893 | | 1303.3416 | it doesn't matter if your father was | 1305.3302 |
895 | | 1306.0453 | not in your life. Or your father was a doctor or the mayor. Like you all were | 1310.4378 |
897 | | 1310.7677 | the same. | 1311.3785 |
899 | | 1311.8681 | Like we were all in the same classes. | 1313.8219 |
901 | | 1314.2602 | Do you know what I'm [saying.] Like we were all treated the s- at least I felt that way- treated the same. | 1317.9614 |
902 | VLD_int_01 | 1314.7172 | [Mm.] | 1315.0762 |
903 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1318.4137 | But once you graduated, | 1319.6027 |
905 | | 1319.8435 | life does not treat you the same. | 1321.4679 |
907 | | 1322.6698 | At least, I don't think so. | 1323.9287 |
908 | VLD_int_01 | 1324.7378 | So high school's very different from like- | 1326.3851 |
910 | | 1326.6563 | [High] school is a very different microcosm from the real world. Like it was a very different- | 1330.0245 |
911 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1326.6733 | [But-] | 1326.9620 |
913 | | 1330.0245 | It- and it still is. | 1331.2359 |
914 | | 1331.4737 | Except now, high school | 1333.1431 |
916 | | 1333.8281 | has at least three | 1335.7019 |
918 | | 1336.8114 | maybe more microcosms within the | 1339.2281 |
920 | | 1340.4961 | /hotal-/ | 1340.9198 |
922 | | 1341.0900 | total | 1341.5746 |
924 | | 1341.7548 | subset | 1342.6472 |
926 | | 1343.1793 | known [as], | 1343.9379 |
927 | VLD_int_01 | 1343.8247 | [Mm.] | 1344.1360 |
928 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1344.3058 | /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High. | 1345.5224 |
930 | | 1346.4338 | Do [you understand what I'm saying?] | 1347.4245 |
931 | VLD_int_01 | 1346.6886 | [What- mm-hm.] | 1347.4301 |
932 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1347.7471 | Because we have like, the so called, honest kids. | 1350.0398 |
934 | | 1350.3285 | But they all are not honest kid- but they are p- predominantly- | 1353.1131 |
936 | | 1353.4698 | are majority a certain race. | 1355.0378 |
938 | | 1355.6790 | And like their parents don't want them to | 1357.4658 |
939 | VLD_int_01 | 1358.9433 | Intermingle? | 1359.5603 |
940 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1359.6735 | Yeah, with the other kids. | 1361.0378 |
942 | | 1361.3120 | Which those kids who are supposedly to be- Like everybody's college prep. | 1364.6603 |
944 | | 1365.5660 | And- | 1366.1547 |
946 | | 1366.6246 | but everybody's not college prep. | 1368.3455 |
947 | VLD_int_01 | 1368.4921 | Right. | 1368.7469 |
948 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1369.1375 | And our principal she's in the game of | 1371.1641 |
950 | | 1371.3113 | graduating | 1372.1242 |
952 | | 1372.2376 | students, | 1372.8567 |
954 | | 1373.1907 | that doesn't mean educating students. | 1375.0304 |
956 | | 1375.2733 | It doesn't mean they're prepared. | 1376.5086 |
958 | | 1376.9490 | You [understand?] | 1377.8094 |
959 | VLD_int_01 | 1377.3452 | [Mm-hm.] | 1377.7975 |
960 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1378.1491 | So isn- for a lot of people- Oh it's the numbers and they get all excited. | 1381.2733 |
962 | | 1381.5675 | But for me, it's about making that individual | 1383.8264 |
964 | | 1385.0152 | contact, more than just a contact. Just a- | 1387.4601 |
966 | | 1388.4395 | It's more than just responsibility cause I have a responsibility, /for/ that student. Even though that student is thirteen, fourteen | 1393.5337 |
968 | | 1393.9017 | definitely has a responsibility sitting in my classroom as well. | 1396.6133 |
970 | | 1397.1907 | And I just jumped subjects. I didn't mean to do that cause we started on Valdosta High [School.] | 1400.8584 |
971 | VLD_int_01 | 1400.5753 | [Mm], but that's- but you still talking about /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School. | 1402.8680 |
972 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1402.8793 | Yeah, but now in a different- | 1404.0511 |
974 | | 1404.5035 | co- I'm saying as a- as a classroom teacher. | 1406.9150 |
975 | VLD_int_01 | 1407.7415 | But still very relevant because I think | 1409.4850 |
977 | | 1409.8869 | it's interesting how you just made that connection right. Because I think it shows- | 1413.0112 |
979 | | 1413.6113 | thinking about how y- how you got into education, or how you- or even thinking about your own journey as a | 1419.3059 |
981 | | 1419.6962 | educator. | 1420.6302 |
982 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1420.6585 | I've always been an educator. That's the sad part about it. | 1423.5337 |
984 | | 1425.1301 | Don't- Haven't you realized [that?] | 1426.5736 |
985 | VLD_int_01 | 1426.2849 | [Mm.] You have. | 1427.2416 |
986 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1427.3435 | And I'm always spending my- Well my- s- my free time | 1430.3942 |
988 | | 1430.8131 | with kids. | 1431.6679 |
990 | | 1431.9906 | You know open up the che- Come on kids, what do we got- I don't know. Come let's do something. | 1435.9357 |
992 | | 1436.3659 | You know I'm thinking. Why did I spend all my- I could be putting my [ideas] into | 1439.8983 |
993 | VLD_int_01 | 1439.1001 | [Mm.] | 1439.4341 |
994 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1440.5035 | some money making things, but | 1442.0206 |
996 | | 1442.6017 | this is my investment. | 1443.8228 |
997 | VLD_int_01 | 1444.5453 | It is. I think when it's your | 1446.3002 |
998 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1447.1431 | [Passion.] | 1447.6017 |
999 | VLD_int_01 | 1447.5620 | [Passion.] | 1447.9640 |
1000 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1447.9526 | [Absolutely.] | 1448.6036 |
1001 | VLD_int_01 | 1448.5697 | [You] follow the passion, not the paycheck. | 1449.9906 |
1002 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1449.9906 | Absolutely. | 1450.7774 |
1003 | | 1451.0605 | And I have a friend now. She has so many degrees. And all she talks about is, | 1454.7282 |
1005 | | 1455.1384 | oh I can't wait til I start making this amount of money. | 1457.5416 |
1007 | | 1457.9152 | And for me, | 1458.5889 |
1009 | | 1458.9280 | it's n- | 1459.4375 |
1011 | | 1459.6017 | If the money comes, wonderful. Is it- if it doesn't, | 1461.9906 |
1013 | | 1462.4208 | I'm still going to survive. | 1463.6809 |
1015 | | 1464.7870 | It's not about a bigger house, bigger car, whatever, | 1467.3056 |
1017 | | 1467.5717 | it's not. | 1468.3076 |
1019 | | 1469.7681 | But if I have a kid in my classroom, who doesn't have on shoes, | 1472.9716 |
1021 | | 1474.4095 | or has on, | 1475.2020 |
1023 | | 1475.4624 | two different pairs of shoes. | 1477.1886 |
1025 | | 1478.1451 | Or have stuff smeared across his shirt, | 1480.1774 |
1027 | | 1481.4567 | or has | 1481.9945 |
1029 | | 1482.9337 | other kids picking on him. No, that can't happen. | 1485.8321 |
1031 | | 1487.0378 | So they gonna bully, I'll be the biggest bully, cause that's not allowed. | 1490.0036 |
1033 | | 1492.3359 | What? | 1492.8736 |
1034 | VLD_int_01 | 1493.2812 | I'm just listening. | 1494.0568 |
1035 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1494.7525 | Oh I'm not used to that. You're supposed to be | 1496.2629 |
1037 | | 1496.3863 | jumping in and saying stuff. (laughing) | 1498.0868 |
1039 | | 1498.7208 | J- raising your hand. W- | 1499.8586 |
1041 | | 1500.0511 | Can I go to the bathroom. (laughing) [<laugh>] | 1501.5451 |
1042 | VLD_int_01 | 1501.5507 | Oh, [sorry.] | 1502.3829 |
1043 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1502.0149 | [This is] not important to me. (laughing) | 1503.7641 |
1044 | VLD_int_01 | 1504.1943 | But it is. [It's very- it's very important] to me. | 1506.8544 |
1045 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1504.6982 | [Oh, well it's important to me.] | 1506.2096 |
1046 | VLD_int_01 | 1507.2960 | But I think, also, because I love the classroom too. And I think- | 1510.3302 |
1048 | | 1510.6642 | And I told you this before, I think my | 1512.5379 |
1050 | | 1512.8375 | joy of learning | 1513.9300 |
1052 | | 1514.4508 | came from you. | 1515.2234 |
1054 | | 1515.3735 | Like you were the- | 1516.1717 |
1056 | | 1516.4095 | Who did I see in my life that was a teacher? | 1518.2832 |
1057 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1519.4658 | I was not a teacher. | 1520.8301 |
1058 | VLD_int_01 | 1520.9603 | But you were- w- | 1521.5239 |
1060 | | 1521.6607 | but- | 1522.0110 |
1062 | | 1522.1912 | what did you just [say? You've always, always] been an educator, isn't that what you just said? | 1525.8168 |
1063 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1522.6868 | [I was an educator.] | 1524.2040 |
1064 | VLD_int_01 | 1526.3149 | You've [always been an educator. And who did I-] who did I see- | 1529.3435 |
1065 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1526.5131 | [Oh lord, /I'm'a gonna die/] (whispered) | 1528.5623 |
1066 | | 1529.7341 | All these wonderful educators that were in your life, when you were in the /RD-SCHOOL-3/ city school system. | 1534.0930 |
1067 | VLD_int_01 | 1535.3007 | But [before I was in the-] before I was [in the school system.] | 1537.7114 |
1068 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1535.4639 | [And- and before-] | 1536.3638 |
1070 | | 1536.7695 | [before-] | 1537.2078 |
1072 | | 1537.4922 | [before] you were in the school system. You're mom. | 1539.7444 |
1073 | | 1539.8925 | I have to tell you, | 1540.7505 |
1075 | | 1541.2354 | the biggest educator and supporter you have, believe it or not | 1544.3595 |
1076 | VLD_int_01 | 1545.1511 | [Right. But- but it was a different- it] was a different kind of way. | 1547.9721 |
1077 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1545.3842 | [I'll have to tell you, don't you-] | 1546.8903 |
1078 | | 1548.0937 | No, even with you being tested for gifted, | 1550.3404 |
1080 | | 1550.7652 | and how they tried to, oh, we can't do this. Oh, it costs this, whatever, | 1554.5317 |
1082 | | 1554.9374 | and your mom kept on pushing, pushing and calling til they had you tested | 1558.0988 |
1084 | | 1558.5686 | at the college. | 1559.4592 |
1086 | | 1560.5174 | You don't even know that, do you? | 1561.6974 |
1087 | VLD_int_01 | 1562.1497 | I remember the day at s- | 1563.3235 |
1089 | | 1563.4036 | um, at /RD-SCHOOL-4/, | 1565.1686 |
1091 | | 1565.5290 | and I was sick. And that was the only day | 1567.9026 |
1093 | | 1568.3922 | that they could do the [test.] | 1570.1827 |
1094 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1569.6978 | [Mm-hm.] | 1570.2247 |
1095 | VLD_int_01 | 1570.4754 | And I remember I was sick. And that was the only day | 1574.0611 |
1097 | | 1574.7326 | and I'm like, we can't reschedule [this?] | 1576.6386 |
1098 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1576.2515 | [And doesn't that] bother you? Like, | 1577.8369 |
1099 | | 1578.7369 | why did they give you such a- | 1579.9259 |
1101 | | 1580.1357 | I mean there are so many kids that would have that /hurry/. | 1582.5919 |
1103 | | 1583.3193 | Honors, | 1583.9908 |
1105 | | 1584.7788 | and it came from when they were in elementary school, or whatever but they still have that tag. | 1588.2853 |
1107 | | 1588.4054 | You know, when they're in high school. | 1589.5478 |
1109 | | 1590.1680 | Well why do you think they gave you such a hard time? | 1592.5740 |
1111 | | 1594.4520 | Do you ever think about that? | 1595.4219 |
1113 | | 1595.9115 | Like that [still bothers me.] | 1597.1892 |
1114 | VLD_int_01 | 1596.3312 | [I don't think I-] I don't have to think about it. I feel like I know why they gave me a hard time. | 1600.5313 |
1115 | | 1601.1794 | I mean, in my class | 1602.9245 |
1117 | | 1603.1314 | of what? There were like ten of us? | 1605.0170 |
1119 | | 1605.5661 | In my class there were two black students. I don't- I don't- | 1607.9488 |
1121 | | 1608.2799 | We're still in the very deep south. We're still in the time when | 1610.9284 |
1123 | | 1611.1849 | racism is very much alive. I don't feel like I need to think about- even- | 1614.4617 |
1125 | | 1614.8441 | even when I was very young, I don't- I don't know if I could necessarily articulate it in that way. | 1618.7365 |
1127 | | 1619.4499 | But I knew something was | 1620.6840 |
1129 | | 1620.8374 | different. | 1621.5482 |
1130 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1621.9632 | At the same time, those teachers from the high school, And at three- that I- well two right now I could name Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ | 1627.5715 |
1132 | | 1628.0425 | and Mr. /RD-NAME-1/ | 1628.9136 |
1134 | | 1629.0504 | think very highly of you. And they both are caucasian. | 1631.8136 |
1135 | VLD_int_01 | 1633.0539 | Right. | 1633.3430 |
1136 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1634.0098 | And I don't even know how they knew- Well I knew Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ knew you, | 1636.7318 |
1137 | VLD_int_01 | 1636.7365 | I didn't- Mr.- I had him for one [class.] | 1639.0399 |
1138 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1638.8721 | [But] immediately when you had your stroke, | 1640.9191 |
1139 | | 1641.2502 | Ms.- Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ talk- Oh, oh Minnie that, huh. | 1643.8649 |
1141 | | 1644.2752 | That was twent- | 1644.8637 |
1143 | | 1645.0172 | that was two thousand years ago. | 1646.9144 |
1145 | | 1647.3563 | Okay, sorry. (laughing) | 1649.2634 |
1147 | | 1649.9488 | How did- how did you know her? Wait- you- what? | 1652.6253 |
1149 | | 1652.8725 | Okay, [well that's why.] | 1653.5999 |
1150 | VLD_int_01 | 1652.9890 | [But I had her for-] | 1654.1268 |
1151 | | 1654.5220 | Because she [was a year- I had her for two years. Yep.] | 1657.2358 |
1152 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1655.1142 | [I know, two years cause-] yeah I know, yeah. | 1658.4342 |
1153 | VLD_int_01 | 1658.8818 | [But we also had like breakfast] and we- our class was real special. | 1661.9504 |
1154 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1659.0310 | [I'm just saying-] | 1659.9309 |
1155 | VLD_int_01 | 1663.2222 | [But we also-] | 1663.8144 |
1156 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1663.2269 | [And she's still] there. | 1664.6444 |
1157 | VLD_int_01 | 1665.0687 | She retired and came back. | 1666.5842 |
1158 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1666.6774 | Right. | 1667.2043 |
1159 | VLD_int_01 | 1667.6799 | That's how you do it. | 1668.5193 |
1160 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1668.5741 | And she's teacher of the- Not teacher of the month, teacher of the year. She's star teacher, again. | 1673.1437 |
1161 | VLD_int_01 | 1673.4981 | Oh, who? | 1674.2581 |
1162 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1674.7488 | /RD-NAME-3/ | 1675.6325 |
1163 | VLD_int_01 | 1675.8284 | Mm. | 1676.1781 |
1165 | | 1677.3811 | Wow. | 1677.6935 |
1166 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1678.5981 | But in a way [we digress. But was kind of still on topic.] | 1681.1056 |
1167 | VLD_int_01 | 1679.2416 | [Oh we did. Okay, so back to-] back to high school- back to high- okay. | 1682.5931 |
1168 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1682.6071 | [Oh], | 1682.8542 |
1169 | VLD_int_01 | 1682.7796 | [So], | 1683.0920 |
1170 | | 1683.2273 | okay, so when you got to high school, did you play sports? | 1685.5400 |
1171 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1685.6286 | Absolutely. | 1686.4120 |
1172 | VLD_int_01 | 1686.5507 | Did you maintain- Was it track and basketball [as well?] | 1688.5931 |
1173 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1688.4485 | [Absolutely.] | 1689.2133 |
1174 | VLD_int_01 | 1689.2366 | Were you good? | 1689.8521 |
1175 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1690.3697 | I was okay. | 1691.2707 |
1176 | VLD_int_01 | 1692.4307 | How okay were you? | 1693.1243 |
1177 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1693.1233 | Our team was not okay. [<laugh>] | 1695.6049 |
1178 | VLD_int_01 | 1694.7423 | [<laugh>] | 1696.0106 |
1179 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1696.0246 | So, it- so I was about to say, no, we were not okay cause- | 1698.7617 |
1181 | | 1699.2875 | And it was during that time, like | 1700.8635 |
1183 | | 1702.0619 | it's not like it is today where it's very competitive. | 1704.3887 |
1185 | | 1705.6092 | The people who coached | 1707.0967 |
1187 | | 1707.4697 | girls' basketball, | 1708.6821 |
1189 | | 1709.2883 | didn't really want- they didn't wanna coach girl- they didn't wanna coach girls basketball. It was just the principal said, | 1713.5117 |
1191 | | 1713.9360 | you do it. | 1714.5935 |
1192 | VLD_int_01 | 1715.0598 | Mm. | 1715.2323 |
1193 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1715.2276 | Cause coach /RD-NAME-2/, he was just like, he would sit on the bench. He wasn't tel- I don't know one play coach /RD-NAME-1/ has taught us yet. | 1721.3162 |
1194 | | 1722.0065 | But anyway, the coach that was before him, | 1723.6758 |
1196 | | 1724.4079 | awesome. But she left my ninth grade year, but it's because of her, that I got the scholarship in Florida. | 1728.8831 |
1198 | | 1729.2049 | For my ninth grade year. Can you believe that? | 1731.4058 |
1199 | VLD_int_01 | 1731.9327 | Wow. | 1732.3150 |
1201 | | 1732.9527 | So you're- okay, so, before we- we gonna come back to that, but before you- your- you- before your- | 1737.5084 |
1203 | | 1738.1099 | you went to college on a basketball scholarship. | 1741.0790 |
1204 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1741.3494 | That is correct. | 1742.0116 |
1205 | VLD_int_01 | 1742.3426 | Okay, so we'll come back to that in a second. | 1743.7928 |
1207 | | 1744.0819 | Okay, how were you in track? | 1745.3537 |
1208 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1746.3609 | Oh I was- oh great. Cause it- my senior year, | 1748.9488 |
1210 | | 1749.2332 | I mean, coach /RD-NAME-4/ would say, | 1751.1019 |
1212 | | 1751.5449 | okay we can put | 1752.4308 |
1214 | | 1752.9484 | twenty points right here, cause she knows I'm gonna get first place in two events. | 1756.6927 |
1216 | | 1757.4097 | She knew that. | 1758.1184 |
1217 | VLD_int_01 | 1758.4961 | Do you still hold the school record? | 1759.7271 |
1218 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1760.0349 | I do, did you know that? | 1761.2939 |
1219 | VLD_int_01 | 1761.2939 | I [do.] | 1761.6740 |
1220 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1761.6203 | [That] just bother- I mean just like, wow okay [s-] | 1763.7221 |
1221 | VLD_int_01 | 1763.6242 | [Every] time I go to the gym I always look at the thing and see if your name is still there. | 1766.8916 |
1222 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1767.0094 | Where do you look? | 1767.7228 |
1223 | VLD_int_01 | 1767.9700 | It's on the- | 1768.3663 |
1225 | | 1768.7708 | I don't know if it's still up [there, but it's on the board. Up on the thing. Mm-hm.] | 1771.9603 |
1226 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1769.7292 | [Used to be on the back s- yeah. Mm-hm.] | 1771.9416 |
1227 | VLD_int_01 | 1773.0048 | I was like, I know her. | 1773.9373 |
1228 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1774.2544 | Uh. | 1774.7347 |
1230 | | 1774.9714 | Well when I go through | 1775.8093 |
1232 | | 1775.9761 | the front of the school and I see that picture of you, And you're with the president of Georgia. | 1779.6995 |
1234 | | 1779.7835 | [<laugh>] | 1780.1425 |
1235 | VLD_int_01 | 1779.7881 | [<laugh>] | 1780.1332 |
1236 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1780.4817 | Was it a president? | 1781.4097 |
1237 | VLD_int_01 | 1781.6568 | I think [governor.] | 1782.2397 |
1238 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1782.1557 | [Governor], oh governor. | 1783.2375 |
1239 | | 1784.0980 | Youth governor. | 1784.8627 |
1241 | | 1785.1073 | Yeah. yes. | 1786.0866 |
1243 | | 1786.4025 | I'm like, I know her. (laughing) | 1787.6055 |
1245 | | 1788.0998 | I'm related. | 1788.6407 |
1247 | | 1789.0510 | [<laugh>] | 1791.8250 |
1248 | VLD_int_01 | 1789.0510 | [<laugh>] | 1792.1099 |
1249 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1792.7056 | [<sigh> <laugh>] | 1794.4402 |
1250 | VLD_int_01 | 1793.0226 | [Okay. So, okay.] | 1794.4355 |
1251 | | 1794.8132 | Um, so high school was pretty good. | 1796.5012 |
1252 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1797.1167 | I didn't have- other than just being odd, I didn't really have any | 1800.1511 |
1254 | | 1800.3562 | problems. I mean I didn't go to anything u- | 1802.3380 |
1256 | | 1802.6177 | You know, I'm saying odd, like | 1803.9187 |
1258 | | 1806.0718 | I just stayed to myself, | 1807.2450 |
1260 | | 1807.3785 | except for sports. | 1808.4499 |
1262 | | 1809.1819 | I didn't | 1809.5363 |
1264 | | 1810.2066 | you know, | 1810.9387 |
1266 | | 1811.4330 | I come- go to school, come home. | 1813.4147 |
1268 | | 1813.8996 | That's about it. | 1814.6224 |
1270 | | 1815.2985 | I didn't do any dances | 1816.8699 |
1272 | | 1817.4749 | anything like that. that's why I get so excited now to do the prom. | 1820.0908 |
1274 | | 1820.5105 | Which my picture is over there on your mom's shelf. | 1822.5517 |
1276 | | 1822.8828 | I went to the prom that's my first year, yes. | 1825.3821 |
1277 | VLD_int_01 | 1826.6970 | I [didn't know you] didn't go to prom. | 1827.9187 |
1278 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1826.8276 | [What?] | 1827.2286 |
1279 | | 1828.9340 | No, cause I didn't- I wasn't gonna say- ask anything, or say anything about prom, prom dresses. We didn't- | 1834.0772 |
1281 | | 1835.0879 | Nobody had to say that we didn't have money for you to know you don't have money. | 1838.6923 |
1283 | | 1840.9294 | So why would I ask for stuff like that? | 1842.7572 |
1285 | | 1843.7737 | So, no. I don't wanna go. I'm good. I'm fine. | 1846.0819 |
1287 | | 1846.5097 | And who would I go with? | 1847.8247 |
1288 | VLD_int_01 | 1848.7153 | Go by yourself. | 1849.9323 |
1289 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1851.4850 | Next subject. | 1852.2404 |
1290 | VLD_int_01 | 1853.8340 | Okay so you got the scholarship to go to [college.] | 1856.5804 |
1291 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1856.1841 | [Oh, no] it was kind of odd cause I just happened to be in a Valdosta mall. I'm not even sure why I was in a mall, cause I am not a shopper. | 1862.2214 |
1292 | | 1862.8649 | And I saw coach. | 1864.1565 |
1293 | VLD_int_01 | 1864.7605 | Mm. | 1865.0786 |
1294 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1865.5309 | /RD-NAME-3/, I can't even think of her last name now. Just slipped my mind, sorry. | 1868.7110 |
1296 | | 1869.3824 | And I was like, oh hey coach. And she was like, hey /RD-NAME-3/, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was just like a few minutes and she told me the lady's name. | 1875.5643 |
1298 | | 1876.0446 | And told me she would be contacting me. I was like well, okay and I didn't really think anything of it. | 1879.4473 |
1300 | | 1879.9789 | And they sent it to /the/ me in the mail, at school. And it was the whole little, | 1883.8247 |
1302 | | 1884.3236 | you know, full scholarship. | 1885.8623 |
1304 | | 1886.4359 | Blah, blah, blah, sign here, sign there. And most people w- you have a- | 1889.6428 |
1306 | | 1890.3562 | you know how you sign- when they have a signing day and all that? | 1892.7520 |
1307 | VLD_int_01 | 1892.7530 | [Mm-hm.] | 1893.2426 |
1308 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1892.9489 | [I-] I just signed mine on the bus. We were going to some- | 1895.4749 |
1309 | | 1896.9624 | I don't know if it was a basketball game, or a track meet. I can't remember now. | 1900.1378 |
1311 | | 1900.5563 | I just signed it | 1901.3545 |
1313 | | 1902.9950 | and put it back in the- Cause I didn't really think anything of it. | 1905.3498 |
1314 | VLD_int_01 | 1907.2604 | Were you- were you the first one to go to college | 1909.3774 |
1316 | | 1909.7271 | in your family? | 1910.6037 |
1317 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1911.6156 | What do you mean, my family? | 1912.7440 |
1318 | VLD_int_01 | 1913.7034 | Like, | 1914.4215 |
1320 | | 1915.2981 | your immediate family, like in your household at that time. | 1917.3778 |
1321 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1918.2812 | Oh, uh, yeah. | 1919.0646 |
1322 | VLD_int_01 | 1920.4495 | And it wasn't a big deal? | 1921.4986 |
1323 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1922.0255 | It was not a big deal. It was just another thing, just like, | 1924.2124 |
1325 | | 1924.5797 | when you left elementary school to go to middle school, it's like, oh no, I wanna stay back. I don't wanna go to middle school, or junior high school. | 1930.0725 |
1327 | | 1930.5563 | And once it's time to leave junior high school and go to high school, oh no, let me stay back. I can't go to high school. | 1934.6364 |
1329 | | 1935.0281 | You know so many people or whatever. And you get there and you do just fine. | 1937.7967 |
1331 | | 1938.1392 | Then you go onto the next thing. The thing I have not been able to accomplish, | 1941.1586 |
1333 | | 1941.5316 | is that master's degree. | 1942.9432 |
1335 | | 1943.5962 | <clap> | 1943.7734 |
1336 | VLD_int_01 | 1944.8365 | Why not? | 1945.2328 |
1337 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1946.4778 | That is a great question. | 1947.7788 |
1338 | VLD_int_01 | 1948.1973 | Hm. So glad I asked it. | 1949.5169 |
1339 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1949.8619 | I just don't have all the answers right now. | 1952.4265 |
1340 | VLD_int_01 | 1952.4825 | Hm. | 1952.6737 |
1341 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1953.3218 | If at- for a time, | 1955.1392 |
1343 | | 1955.5962 | money. Cause I- And I just realized, | 1957.5826 |
1345 | | 1958.1281 | I spent a lot of time on | 1960.0725 |
1347 | | 1961.4728 | my lessons that I teach, preparing my lessons. Thinking about how my kids are going to get it. | 1965.5829 |
1349 | | 1966.0166 | Like one day we even had a fire drill. And just for them following the directions and doing what we're supposed to do. | 1970.0187 |
1351 | | 1970.3752 | And I was like, And you get a car, and you get a car. I was opening up the AC. | 1973.4050 |
1353 | | 1973.8107 | And you get a car, it's like, oh is she gonna get us a car? | 1975.7924 |
1355 | | 1976.1934 | And so I'm not very, uh, | 1978.0213 |
1357 | | 1978.4677 | artistic, I guess. | 1979.8190 |
1359 | | 1980.2490 | But when my mind gets to working, well I can do some things. So I'll put together little chocolate cars for them. | 1984.4129 |
1361 | | 1984.8921 | And so they had- we had the little raffles and they got the little | 1987.4893 |
1363 | | 1987.9090 | chocolate car. Which was a big deal. It was fun for me. | 1990.3523 |
1364 | VLD_int_01 | 1993.0883 | And, | 1993.6428 |
1365 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1993.7597 | <laugh> | 1995.4197 |
1366 | VLD_int_01 | 1995.5037 | But I remember we were working on a [project. I remember] this project we were working on- well you were working on a project, but- | 2000.1095 |
1367 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 1996.6981 | [Oh god] (whispered) | 1997.6073 |
1368 | VLD_int_01 | 2000.4452 | but I was- You let me read it or something. | 2002.1425 |
1370 | | 2002.6263 | And you had to do your- like your- | 2004.0578 |
1372 | | 2004.3562 | your teaching statement. And your, like | 2006.6749 |
1374 | | 2006.8183 | your | 2007.1020 |
1376 | | 2007.2955 | your pedagogical statement, or something. | 2008.9871 |
1378 | | 2009.1615 | Do you remember this? | 2009.9086 |
1379 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2009.9459 | Mm-mm. | 2010.8038 |
1380 | VLD_int_01 | 2010.8272 | Anyway, I remember you talking about always being, | 2012.7203 |
1382 | | 2013.0047 | the same thing you just said a few minutes ago about being an educator, | 2015.7873 |
1384 | | 2016.2350 | um, and that it's not- | 2017.4380 |
1386 | | 2017.7131 | and that- | 2018.1001 |
1388 | | 2018.2820 | not about- | 2018.7856 |
1390 | | 2018.9861 | about more than about teaching, but being an educator. And making sure that a young- touching a young person's life. | 2023.5686 |
1392 | | 2024.4545 | And this [/stuff-/] | 2025.0047 |
1393 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2024.8462 | [I] said those [words?] | 2026.0446 |
1394 | VLD_int_01 | 2025.9886 | [Mm-hm] | 2026.2264 |
1395 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2026.3325 | I don't think so. | 2027.1578 |
1396 | VLD_int_01 | 2027.7780 | I wish I could, | 2028.3562 |
1398 | | 2028.6873 | /use/ it . [You typed] it up and gave it to me. It wasn't- | 2031.1959 |
1399 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2029.1909 | [Because-] | 2029.7877 |
1400 | VLD_int_01 | 2031.7321 | This is like really before email was like a [big thing. So, I couldn't say I'll look up on my email and- and send] it back to you. | 2038.0585 |
1401 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2033.7407 | [<laugh>] | 2037.0887 |
1402 | | 2038.1460 | [Oh.] | 2038.9760 |
1403 | VLD_int_01 | 2038.7149 | [But] like I was here. | 2040.1837 |
1404 | | 2040.4308 | And I remember- the reason I rem- the reason this m- stands out to me is because | 2043.6809 |
1406 | | 2043.9688 | in two thousand | 2045.1392 |
1408 | | 2046.1510 | six, | 2046.8505 |
1410 | | 2047.2515 | I had to take a class. I did, foundations of education. | 2050.4316 |
1412 | | 2050.9527 | And we had to write our teaching philosophy. | 2053.4660 |
1414 | | 2053.7364 | And so I remember, my- my- my portfolio was themed around Dr. Seuss, but my teaching philosophy was about | 2058.7199 |
1416 | | 2058.9437 | the gift of education. | 2060.0675 |
1418 | | 2060.5384 | And I remember talking about you, | 2062.4596 |
1420 | | 2062.8734 | giving me that gift. | 2064.0345 |
1422 | | 2064.4355 | And exposing me to like, the | 2066.1561 |
1424 | | 2066.3100 | power of [education.] | 2067.3824 |
1425 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2066.7343 | [Going to the plays.] Okay /RD-NAME-2/ let's go to the play. [/You supposed to say/] when? | 2070.2769 |
1426 | VLD_int_01 | 2069.4563 | [Yes.] | 2069.9738 |
1427 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2070.6205 | They have /RD-NAME-3/ come on /RD-NAME-3/, we're going to the play. | 2072.6948 |
1428 | VLD_int_01 | 2072.7716 | Exactly. | 2073.3265 |
1429 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2073.5783 | [<laugh>] | 2074.9432 |
1430 | VLD_int_01 | 2073.5829 | [But- but it's those moments] right? When you're teaching. [And when you're-] | 2077.3401 |
1431 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2076.8225 | [I'm not] teaching. That's just living life, come on, let's go. | 2080.0725 |
1432 | VLD_int_01 | 2080.1786 | Right, but when other kids are just going to the park, or | 2082.9437 |
1434 | | 2083.3028 | going to get ice cream. Those are moments, | 2085.1234 |
1436 | | 2085.2230 | like /RD-NAME-3/ was like | 2086.3756 |
1438 | | 2086.6915 | we went- we saw it on the big screen, no. The big- n- the big TV. [The big, big TV, right? So she didn't have] the word for movie. | 2092.8186 |
1439 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2089.8670 | [<laugh>] | 2092.1518 |
1440 | VLD_int_01 | 2093.1252 | But she remembers about the cars and they were eating. And | 2095.7691 |
1442 | | 2096.0209 | like so, that moment meant something, | 2097.9189 |
1444 | | 2098.1391 | you know. | 2098.6041 |
1446 | | 2098.9107 | And so those are the moments that you think about. You go back, and I remember going to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and- | 2104.1833 |
1447 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2104.2765 | You did not see that [with me. I promise you I did not see-] | 2107.0541 |
1448 | VLD_int_01 | 2105.3678 | [I did because see it because we talked about Maggie.] | 2107.4100 |
1449 | | 2108.0928 | We talked- I know we did. | 2109.2725 |
1450 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2109.3425 | I don't think so. | 2110.3636 |
1451 | VLD_int_01 | 2110.5641 | I know we did. | 2111.2610 |
1453 | | 2111.8791 | Um, | 2112.3734 |
1455 | | 2112.9982 | but other- like those moments, those experiences. | 2115.5197 |
1456 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2116.0559 | And then we did it again at [/RD-SCHOOL-4/.] | 2118.1942 |
1457 | VLD_int_01 | 2117.3242 | [/RD-SCHOOL-4/] we [went to Steel Magnolias] and we ate at Steel Magnolias. | 2121.1933 |
1458 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2118.5132 | [/for, ever/] | 2119.2826 |
1459 | | 2121.5383 | <clap> | 2121.7808 |
1461 | | 2122.2890 | [<laugh>] | 2123.0771 |
1462 | VLD_int_01 | 2122.9418 | [And so], those are moments that you know, you realize that it's something that you- | 2126.5509 |
1463 | | 2126.7143 | you, do. It's not simply- it's not simply, oh I'm a teacher. It's not wh- it's not simply just, | 2131.3106 |
1465 | | 2131.5699 | This is my profession though, this is my way of [living this is-] | 2134.4337 |
1466 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2133.8789 | [It is.] And it's not just, oh summer vacation. Woo I'm off. Nah, it's not like that. | 2138.9958 |
1467 | VLD_int_01 | 2139.8959 | Cause even now you're still thinking about, well what can I do next year to make it better. | 2143.0051 |
1469 | | 2143.1485 | I know you are. [I know you are.] Cause I know- I know- | 2146.1619 |
1470 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2144.0051 | [<laugh>] | 2144.9335 |
1471 | VLD_int_01 | 2146.9318 | I know what you're- | 2147.8489 |
1473 | | 2148.4829 | How you're wired. So it's always about, how can I- | 2150.6844 |
1475 | | 2150.9279 | Even the night you were talking to me about, how can I teach them about, | 2153.2658 |
1477 | | 2154.3357 | um, was it grammar [and-] | 2155.7962 |
1478 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2155.5126 | [The Standard] American English. | 2157.0128 |
1479 | | 2157.1543 | And- but then I got into, oh, this is how they say it in the South. And this is how they say it in the North and the Midwest and the- | 2162.6648 |
1481 | | 2163.1543 | And it just went- | 2164.0431 |
1483 | | 2164.5072 | It was too much. | 2165.2998 |
1485 | | 2165.8036 | It was | 2166.1432 |
1487 | | 2166.8791 | units. | 2167.4355 |
1489 | | 2167.5689 | It wasn't instead of just a lesson. When I just wanted to- | 2169.7147 |
1491 | | 2170.3714 | Cause language is so | 2171.6224 |
1493 | | 2174.3764 | I don't know the word. Evocative and yet, evasive. | 2176.6205 |
1494 | VLD_int_01 | 2177.0677 | Hm. | 2177.5998 |
1496 | | 2178.0583 | Ooh. | 2178.3470 |
1498 | | 2178.7546 | Yes. | 2179.2924 |
1499 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2179.3360 | Or maybe provocative. You know? | 2181.1090 |
1500 | VLD_int_01 | 2181.6128 | Mm-hm. | 2182.1449 |
1502 | | 2182.9431 | That's deep. | 2183.4696 |
1503 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2184.2564 | It is. | 2185.0716 |
1505 | | 2185.6655 | And it's not just about- | 2186.8599 |
1507 | | 2187.8902 | Okay, let me- | 2188.5072 |
1509 | | 2189.2828 | I was, | 2189.9677 |
1511 | | 2190.2564 | again, I think I told you, just dealing with my health. And I just came from a doctor or whatever. | 2194.0827 |
1513 | | 2194.7110 | Thinking about, | 2195.4413 |
1515 | | 2196.7320 | I guess I said, my career. | 2198.3113 |
1517 | | 2198.8543 | Or just thinking about life. | 2200.1336 |
1519 | | 2200.4506 | And I wanna say that life is not just these six blocks that we live. Like, you [asked me about] the neighborhood. | 2205.0352 |
1520 | VLD_int_01 | 2203.8472 | [Mm.] | 2204.4076 |
1521 | | 2205.2111 | [Ntozake Shange.] | 2206.4190 |
1522 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2205.4034 | [But then again], | 2206.1733 |
1523 | | 2206.7167 | huh? | 2207.0394 |
1524 | VLD_int_01 | 2207.3734 | For Colored Girls. | 2208.3923 |
1525 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2208.6301 | [But then again] it is. | 2210.0283 |
1526 | VLD_int_01 | 2208.6584 | [/unintelligible/.] | 2209.6547 |
1527 | | 2210.2038 | Mm. | 2210.6340 |
1528 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2211.1090 | Cause here I am. | 2212.0600 |
1530 | | 2213.0450 | Not just sitting here, but it all comes back right here. Even the memories. | 2216.6000 |
1532 | | 2216.9788 | The people, the places. | 2218.3091 |
1534 | | 2218.7037 | Ay- you asked me about the neighbors. And I mentioned Ms. Sister earlier. Ms. Sister used to call grandmom, grandmother. | 2223.9164 |
1536 | | 2224.5844 | Grandmother, why? I'm elevated. | 2226.1128 |
1538 | | 2226.5430 | <laugh> | 2227.3695 |
1540 | | 2227.7884 | For us to come ove- For me, not my sister | 2230.2108 |
1542 | | 2230.7542 | to come over to go to the grocery store for her. And she always wanted some sizzling bacon. | 2234.7111 |
1544 | | 2235.3050 | When I got to the door, | 2236.4995 |
1546 | | 2237.0939 | she was butt naked. | 2238.8487 |
1548 | | 2239.2859 | /Hell/ am I supposed to do? | 2240.4770 |
1550 | | 2240.7559 | What am I supposed to say? | 2241.9164 |
1552 | | 2243.9600 | I just act like I didn't see it. Yes ma'am. You want some sizzling bacon? (laughing) | 2247.4867 |
1554 | | 2248.0523 | Say I'll be right back. <laugh> | 2251.0921 |
1556 | | 2251.4761 | Or we would play in the dirt, oh gosh I was thinking of all the fun just right there in the dirt. | 2255.6203 |
1558 | | 2256.5770 | Hopscotch and marbles and just, r- hitting a ball on top of the house, or something and she'd yell us, | 2261.2127 |
1560 | | 2261.6033 | y'all hitting up my- in my garage- not garage. What is that? car- car space. | 2266.1286 |
1562 | | 2266.3856 | She didn't [have a car, who] was gonna drive there? | 2268.7751 |
1563 | VLD_int_01 | 2266.9806 | [Right, right.] | 2267.8468 |
1564 | | 2269.3865 | [<laugh>] | 2269.8564 |
1565 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2269.7997 | But she would just yell at us, but you- she loved us- cause I'd play christian music. Especially on Sunday. | 2274.0392 |
1566 | | 2274.4525 | And she'd come out on porch, I love that song. | 2276.3602 |
1568 | | 2276.5866 | I said, I love it too. | 2277.5546 |
1570 | | 2278.7089 | Mm-hm. | 2279.4052 |
1572 | | 2279.8864 | Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ and her kids, her husband, | 2281.7884 |
1574 | | 2282.2696 | when they moved across the street, | 2283.5999 |
1576 | | 2286.4694 | Ms. /RD-NAME-2/, I already mentioned Ms. /RD-NAME-2/. | 2288.5526 |
1578 | | 2290.5108 | Ms. /RD-NAME-2/ and her kids, talking about education, Ms. /RD-NAME-2/, she had summer school for us. | 2295.6905 |
1580 | | 2296.2164 | She had books, | 2297.1731 |
1582 | | 2297.4675 | were you- was she around then? | 2298.7185 |
1584 | | 2299.2167 | We would go up there, she would have food she had the tables all set. Right over there with her big plant kind of tree thing is. Yes. | 2305.6526 |
1586 | | 2306.0035 | That's one thing I loved about the neighborhood. I couldn't skate worth a thing. But I'd get out there, try to skate, we would race, | 2311.3582 |
1588 | | 2312.1111 | oh my goodness. | 2313.2376 |
1590 | | 2313.5937 | One day out there skating | 2314.7926 |
1592 | | 2314.9894 | and who came? I wanna say it was /RD-NAME-2/. That's Dot's brother. | 2317.8224 |
1594 | | 2318.2696 | Which you probably don't know him. He's from Tampa. | 2319.9900 |
1596 | | 2320.4146 | He was in the military. His car was parked right there in the little, | 2322.9506 |
1598 | | 2325.0697 | curve or driveway. | 2326.3378 |
1600 | | 2326.7284 | And so I couldn't curve to go up in the driveway to kind of stop on the grass. So what I did, curve flop. | 2332.3153 |
1602 | | 2332.5388 | Right on top of his car, okay. | 2334.0015 |
1604 | | 2334.5054 | Boom, so that was a talk | 2335.9319 |
1606 | | 2336.3734 | for a minute, but you can get all those stories from my sister. | 2338.8241 |
1608 | | 2339.2826 | Those were the days. Yes, Sheila, who was about this high, still this high, she has a three kids. | 2344.4675 |
1610 | | 2345.1071 | But just that- | 2345.9035 |
1612 | | 2346.0370 | that, power in her legs, skating. | 2348.3451 |
1614 | | 2348.8829 | Playing kickball in the street. All right y'all here come a car, get out the way. Okay, yes. | 2353.2356 |
1616 | | 2353.7677 | That was wonderful. | 2354.9565 |
1618 | | 2355.2277 | Kids today you gotta be worried, okay that got a gun, they carrying drugs dah dah dah dah. | 2359.0488 |
1620 | | 2359.6828 | And it's hard to see them as, they're still kids, | 2362.1810 |
1622 | | 2362.6189 | mm-hm-hm. | 2363.2826 |
1624 | | 2363.8261 | I have to say some adults are still kids. | 2365.9545 |
1625 | VLD_int_01 | 2369.5543 | Mm. | 2369.8600 |
1626 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2372.8654 | And they need somebody to tell them that it's okay that they need to talk. | 2376.3242 |
1628 | | 2379.4768 | Not that the person that they're talking to can solve their problems, but to get it out. | 2383.0262 |
1630 | | 2383.5470 | The only reason I'm saying that, | 2384.8004 |
1632 | | 2384.9773 | I don't know why I'm saying that, but I'm'a say it to you, | 2387.3109 |
1634 | | 2387.8204 | I was in intensive care for three days. | 2389.9093 |
1636 | | 2390.7182 | You remember when I fell out, | 2391.8915 |
1638 | | 2392.1151 | in Walmart out there? When I went in and got the van- I said how did I get in that van. Big old van from | 2396.9961 |
1640 | | 2397.3143 | the airport out there. Getting a little | 2398.9599 |
1642 | | 2399.8827 | buckets for the beach. For them to- I want to make sand- | 2402.4074 |
1644 | | 2402.6112 | I have no kids, but I always have kids. | 2405.2713 |
1645 | VLD_int_01 | 2405.2298 | [Mm-hm.] | 2405.6392 |
1646 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2405.3845 | [I] birthed no kids, but I always have children. | 2408.1244 |
1647 | | 2408.6282 | And so, getting a little game to take them to the beach. | 2411.1864 |
1649 | | 2412.5054 | And all I remember is that my eyes, | 2414.8141 |
1651 | | 2416.8750 | It just looked like I was looking through a | 2418.4035 |
1653 | | 2419.9376 | kaleidoscope or something. | 2421.2339 |
1655 | | 2421.9467 | And I don't remember anything else. But the people in the store, on my little paperwork they had, it said I said, | 2426.3078 |
1657 | | 2427.0636 | what was it? Help me God, or help me Jesus, or something like that. But I didn't- Three days, I chewed up my tongue. | 2432.6848 |
1659 | | 2433.1258 | They couldn't figure out what- what- | 2434.0553 |
1661 | | 2434.2321 | well what was wrong? What's wrong with her? What's going on? | 2436.5733 |
1663 | | 2437.0148 | Neurologist, all this- Couldn't drive for six weeks. | 2439.6806 |
1665 | | 2440.1674 | Can you imagine, paying for a car, insurance, gas and all that. And you still have to wait on somebody else. | 2445.0414 |
1667 | | 2445.5844 | Woo my gosh. And it was my sister. | 2448.0015 |
1669 | | 2448.3638 | But anyway, (laughing) | 2449.2696 |
1671 | | 2449.6885 | <laugh> | 2450.4301 |
1673 | | 2451.3919 | but that was a lesson in- just a lesson in patience and that- | 2454.4901 |
1675 | | 2454.6102 | and that- again, the neurologist was just like, | 2456.3225 |
1677 | | 2457.2836 | That was /out/ right- right after my mom had passed and all that. And like, trying to be strong for everybody, you know, and nobody can't see me cry. | 2463.3924 |
1679 | | 2463.7485 | I told /RD-NAME-3/ yesterday. I haven't cried in a long time. What's wrong with me? I'm supposed to be crying everyday. | 2469.0527 |
1681 | | 2469.7202 | Well not everyday, but about something. No. | 2471.9619 |
1683 | | 2472.9243 | Maybe I'm wiser, | 2473.8413 |
1685 | | 2474.0904 | maybe I'm older. Maybe those things don't get to me like they used to, but | 2476.9883 |
1687 | | 2477.4015 | sometimes you just need to talk. | 2478.7941 |
1689 | | 2479.5922 | Just get it out. | 2480.3904 |
1691 | | 2480.8371 | Blah, | 2481.4571 |
1693 | | 2481.5806 | there it is. | 2482.2637 |
1695 | | 2483.3823 | Not to everybody. | 2484.4374 |
1697 | | 2485.5243 | some people- My sister, | 2486.7018 |
1699 | | 2487.5617 | who has not called me- | 2489.3053 |
1701 | | 2489.8034 | Wow when did they move? In January? | 2491.5753 |
1703 | | 2492.1357 | Which I didn't even know they were moving except | 2493.9183 |
1705 | | 2494.5354 | what is it, Christmas? I'm'a go over do a little- I call it a run by, drive by, go see- you know how you in spirit? | 2499.6640 |
1706 | VLD_int_01 | 2499.9485 | [Mm-hm.] | 2500.2702 |
1707 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2500.1070 | [Just] wanted to see what's going on. I drove up to Athens, I'm like, woah the house looks different. Stuff off the wall. | 2505.6733 |
1708 | | 2506.3308 | And that's when they said they were moving. Okay. | 2508.2053 |
1710 | | 2508.6949 | Well, | 2509.0172 |
1712 | | 2509.2274 | they moved. | 2509.8839 |
1714 | | 2510.9879 | /RD-NAME-2/ came to college, and it's something about his | 2513.7856 |
1716 | | 2514.3545 | housing. Where he didn't have a place to stay, so he stayed with me. Okay, no problem. | 2518.5367 |
1718 | | 2519.5059 | But long story short, | 2520.7882 |
1720 | | 2521.0633 | my sister, she was not communicating with me, | 2523.7106 |
1722 | | 2524.7411 | as I felt she should have. | 2526.2426 |
1724 | | 2526.9234 | So I said okay, well I'm gonna do the same thing. | 2529.2071 |
1726 | | 2529.7153 | But now, these past two weeks, she's called me almost every day. Last night she called me twelve o'clock. | 2534.4686 |
1728 | | 2535.2863 | Cause her dad told her | 2537.0769 |
1730 | | 2538.3125 | that | 2538.7136 |
1732 | | 2539.5984 | she needs to be more like me. | 2540.9786 |
1734 | | 2542.1443 | And that upset her. | 2543.0302 |
1736 | | 2543.7623 | I said, be more like me? What do you mean? | 2545.8979 |
1738 | | 2546.5123 | That when I was going to school, | 2548.0883 |
1740 | | 2548.9696 | when I was becoming a teacher, | 2550.3405 |
1742 | | 2550.7462 | that he knew nothing about it. | 2552.2103 |
1744 | | 2552.3071 | <laugh> | 2553.8179 |
1746 | | 2554.3308 | Y'all get it? | 2555.0209 |
1748 | | 2555.5105 | Like, | 2555.7530 |
1750 | | 2556.0129 | it- that- she- she shouldn't tell everybody all her business. She needs to be more like me and hold it in. | 2560.8531 |
1752 | | 2561.2960 | I said, /RD-NAME-2/ please. Don't be more like me. | 2563.4550 |
1754 | | 2563.9387 | Share your excitement. Like some- The test that she had to take, or whatever. | 2567.8929 |
1756 | | 2568.3405 | Like she was sharing that with him. And that's our dad. He should be happy, [but he said] she should be more like me and I'm just saying, | 2573.8696 |
1757 | VLD_int_01 | 2571.5103 | [Mm.] | 2571.9274 |
1758 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2574.4524 | the me you think I am, | 2575.7580 |
1760 | | 2576.2139 | that's not me. | 2577.0578 |
1762 | | 2577.5195 | Let me tell you the real me. | 2578.8297 |
1764 | | 2580.4058 | And talk. | 2580.9136 |
1766 | | 2581.0904 | Shit. | 2581.4638 |
1768 | | 2583.9485 | Uh, okay I'm talking too much. (whispered) | 2585.6924 |
1769 | VLD_int_01 | 2585.9768 | No. | 2586.4011 |
1771 | | 2586.8534 | That was- | 2587.2918 |
1772 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2587.8641 | That was too much. (laughing) [I'm just] saying those were the- | 2589.8785 |
1773 | VLD_int_01 | 2589.0159 | [No.] | 2589.2024 |
1774 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2590.4427 | Oh wow, I'm sorry. I'm all over the place. | 2592.8768 |
1776 | | 2593.0994 | Uh, what's your lesson plan? | 2594.2465 |
1778 | | 2594.3817 | [<laugh>] | 2596.0557 |
1779 | VLD_int_01 | 2594.7128 | [<laugh>] | 2595.3796 |
1781 | | 2595.4728 | [What's my lesson] plan? | 2596.4520 |
1782 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2596.4847 | No, I'm just saying, what are we supposed to be talking about? | 2598.4804 |
1784 | | 2599.2626 | It was just amazing cause I've always envied her. Cause she always seems to have | 2603.0675 |
1786 | | 2604.3079 | everything. I told you that. | 2606.2197 |
1788 | | 2606.3724 | I'm the older one | 2607.3936 |
1790 | | 2607.6733 | chronologically. Age wise, but she has done everything first. | 2611.0120 |
1792 | | 2611.6275 | And she has always been- | 2613.1418 |
1794 | | 2614.7038 | Of course she's the baby. So she is the- | 2616.6809 |
1796 | | 2619.0299 | I can't even think of the word. One is idolized. The one that's- | 2621.3473 |
1798 | | 2621.7763 | Oh, | 2622.4011 |
1800 | | 2622.6856 | and I'm the work horse. | 2623.7207 |
1802 | | 2624.1346 | And I- I- that's all I can- you know. | 2625.9065 |
1804 | | 2626.4520 | You don't know what I'm saying. | 2627.4121 |
1806 | | 2627.5356 | I can't actually put into- she's the | 2629.1099 |
1808 | | 2629.6730 | Okay, this is the baby. Let's hold the baby. Alright, you get to work. | 2633.2914 |
1810 | | 2634.4198 | Even we- | 2634.7695 |
1812 | | 2635.3570 | Oh she gets it, okay. | 2636.6289 |
1814 | | 2636.9786 | Because- [<laugh>] | 2638.3821 |
1815 | VLD_int_01 | 2638.0464 | [I mean] I feel like /RD-NAME-2/ and- /RD-NAME-2/ and [I are similar] | 2641.0912 |
1816 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2640.0654 | [Oh, okay.] Oh okay. Well then [that's the way I-] | 2642.5589 |
1817 | VLD_int_01 | 2641.9020 | [sort of.] | 2642.3956 |
1818 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2642.7408 | Yeah. So that's how I feel. | 2644.2655 |
1820 | | 2644.7784 | And so, And I feel that way in the family still. My mom is gone. My grandmother is gone. | 2649.7899 |
1822 | | 2650.1629 | All of my aunts, but one is gone. | 2652.0328 |
1824 | | 2652.4851 | And I still feel that way with the cousins, um. | 2655.0019 |
1826 | | 2655.8412 | But it's just odd to me, that she would be upset because he told her that she should be more like me. | 2660.2337 |
1828 | | 2660.8993 | And not tell everything. (laughing) | 2663.0069 |
1830 | | 2663.6411 | That is so funny to me. | 2664.9747 |
1831 | VLD_int_01 | 2665.6869 | [Do you] feel like that's a quality that you would want him to praise? | 2668.8484 |
1832 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2665.6916 | [Oh.] | 2665.9014 |
1833 | | 2671.7852 | The funny thing, | 2672.7261 |
1835 | | 2672.8229 | he tells her, | 2673.9205 |
1837 | | 2674.4241 | she needs to be more like me. | 2675.9162 |
1839 | | 2676.5597 | The person she definitely does not want- Only thing she would wanna be more like me like now, she's working on being a teacher. | 2681.7903 |
1841 | | 2682.4497 | Well she used to, ew, poo, poo, poo, ew, a teacher. Poo, poo, poo, oh, you put in all these hours a, duh, duh, duh. | 2687.3193 |
1843 | | 2687.8789 | And now I hear the same stuff that I used to say. | 2690.5869 |
1845 | | 2691.1418 | But now I have to sit back and- Oh that's wonderful, | 2693.3380 |
1847 | | 2693.7157 | oh you go for it, | 2694.8628 |
1849 | | 2695.1892 | oh reach for your dreams, you can do it. | 2697.8365 |
1851 | | 2698.7551 | She didn't do that for me, | 2699.8929 |
1853 | | 2700.2053 | but it's okay. | 2700.9141 |
1855 | | 2701.2778 | Cause I- I'm older. I'm wiser. | 2703.1138 |
1857 | | 2703.5661 | I'm in a whole different place. I'm at the end of my career. | 2706.3918 |
1859 | | 2707.0726 | As far as in that little box room. | 2709.0364 |
1861 | | 2710.4567 | She's just at the beginning. | 2711.6038 |
1863 | | 2713.3524 | Even though we're only two years apart. | 2714.8946 |
1864 | VLD_int_01 | 2715.2956 | Mm-hm. | 2715.7106 |
1865 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2716.7833 | But it just amazed me. Sombody told somebody to be like me? | 2719.5741 |
1867 | | 2720.4237 | Wow, I mean it was a bad, | 2721.8179 |
1869 | | 2722.4847 | [characteristic, but] | 2723.9348 |
1870 | VLD_int_01 | 2722.8158 | [<laugh>] | 2725.1938 |
1871 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2725.2118 | Wow. Be like me. | 2726.9044 |
1873 | | 2727.4309 | You should be like your sister. | 2728.8348 |
1875 | | 2729.7996 | Wow. (whispered) | 2730.3592 |
1877 | | 2731.4100 | I'm like still amazed by that. That was last- that was | 2733.4568 |
1879 | | 2733.6036 | twelve o'clock this morning. | 2734.7385 |
1881 | | 2735.1796 | Wow. (whispered) | 2735.7060 |
1883 | | 2736.0910 | And she was upset. | 2737.1835 |
1885 | | 2737.4892 | Wow. | 2737.9591 |
1887 | | 2738.0553 | Yes. | 2738.6327 |
1889 | | 2740.6536 | And she should be more like me. | 2742.2061 |
1891 | | 2742.3429 | I am stable. | 2743.5232 |
1893 | | 2745.0007 | In, | 2745.4479 |
1895 | | 2745.6436 | the five times she's moved, | 2747.4631 |
1897 | | 2747.9155 | I've been in the same place. | 2749.4496 |
1898 | VLD_int_01 | 2750.6428 | [Yes, /damn straight/.] | 2751.6407 |
1899 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2750.9413 | [<laugh>] | 2752.5686 |
1900 | VLD_int_01 | 2752.2982 | [Yes.] Yes, [you have.] | 2753.2886 |
1901 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2752.9323 | [That is] true. | 2753.7577 |
1902 | VLD_int_01 | 2753.8463 | It- Yes it is true. It's very true. | 2755.6881 |
1904 | | 2756.1859 | Um. | 2756.7174 |
1905 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2756.9786 | Uh-oh, our time is /rind-/ winding-up. | 2758.6152 |
1906 | VLD_int_01 | 2758.7924 | No. | 2758.9883 |
1907 | VLD_se0_ag3_f_01 | 2758.9743 | I don't know why I keep going off in [tangents.] | 2761.1798 |
1908 | VLD_int_01 | 2760.7322 | [Your-] our time is not winding-up. What I'm going to do, is we're going to pause one second, | 2764.5276 |
1909 | | 2765.4835 | because I | 2766.0199 |
1911 | | 2766.2201 | think | 2766.4503 |
1913 | | 2766.6505 | I | 2766.8607 |
1915 | | 2767.2210 | think. | 2767.7403 |