lookin\' down?

Did I not say that "this" - this teenage - recovery/addiction "thing", at one time, is like a roller coaster?  T wouldn't get up for school today - claiming he had a headache and was nauseous.  I left and came back hours later to find him not home.  He had left the TV on and his plates and food out.  I could smell a recent smoked cigarette in the garage after I got out of my van.  I called school and he hadn't shown up - yet.  Well - the time he was to be there for his last class time - he didn't show for either.  He had told me this morning that he had an in-school suspension for not serving an after- school detention a while back.  So I hear from the assistant principal and T was definitely a no show.  Good job T!  Just before your assessment, too.  sigh........