Nicest thing? I have two, i was told by someone at AA i am the strongest lady they know and such an inspiration to every for all i been thru and that i am over all happy and have no depression for over a year (Now 17 months)

Second was my Fiance, i am VERY insecure about my being over weight, and when he first got here i said something about just being fat and ugly he says theres just more of you to love whats wrong with that?

Not sure on funny!

"Live with you is wonderfully surreal" --- hubby to me

ICU bed after heart surgery. A nurse comes in and looks at everything and says "You are one screwed up cookie"

I've got a coworker at my community college whose office is on the same hallway as mine on campus in our building at school. Yesterday I talked to him via Skype, and he told me that he was impressed that whenever he walked by my office he could see the door was open and a student was always in there talking to me. He said his guess was that they weren't just talking about school work, that my door was open because they could come in an chat and get support any time they wanted to.

I said yeah, I had to confess that I did most of my office work at home in the evening because during the day I let students come in and talk about whatever was on their minds, including personal stuff and not just school work. My boss's doorway is two doors down from mine on that hallway. She's seen that constant traffic in and our of my office and students taking me up on my office hospitality and has let me know she doesn't like it.

I don't let students gossip about my boss or about other teachers or even each other when they come in to chat, it's just an open door talking any time habit I have left over from when I was a hospital chaplain. I made appointments to counsel patients when needed and I did my rounds to visit 20 patients per day in their hospital beds. But I wanted to be known like the chaplain Father Mulcahy on the tv showM*A*S*H as a religious guy who was not stuffy, who was easy to talk to. So that's why because of my previous hospital work experience with an open door policy, even though my boss would prefer I saw students by appointment only and only about school work, I let students come by any time to talk about whatever they want to chat about.

Yesterday when my coworker said he saw it and that it was good, it was real validation for me. I saw one of those students walking by on the super market side walk when I went grocery shopping yesterday. She dropped by and talked to me a lot this past January. She was going through a bad period of anxiety, so bad that she had a scar on her cheek from scratching at her own face in anxiety.

When I saw her yesterday the scar on her cheek was healed. I hoped the same for the scar on her heart. I was glad I'd let her and students like her come talk out their anxiety with me, and glad my coworker from school had seen it and thought it was good.

Wow. Some very moving comments. Thor, not that it’s funny she thought you were screwed up, the way she phrased it was really funny. Thank you for the heartwarming comments.

Muji, I don’t understand your boss, As long as your work is getting done, why wouldn’t she want you to have open conversation with students? It helps them feel good and work toward high achievement.