I'm not feeling as accurate about Jessi as the others. Any thoughts or alternative futures for our token African-American babysitter?
Jessi: Jessi winds up in a ballet company in one of those small Midwestern cities with a fabulous ballet company that no one’s quite sure why it’s there. And she is fabulous. The company begins touring, based on her reputation. She and the choreographer have a torrid love affair that leaves her sobbing on Mallory’s couch for a week. Then, on a trip to see that child star she babysat, Jessi sits in on a dance class at the deaf school his brother now teaches at. (That was the deaf kid, right? And it was Kristy who bonded with the autistic boy, right?) All of a sudden, Jessi moves to LA, takes over the dance program for the deaf kids, and then they go on a fabulous world tour (Who knows the Indomitable Spirit theme song?—Tasteless!). During that tour, she falls in love with a parent/chaperone. The students will fondly remember their drunken times while Jessi and her new man weren’t paying them any attention.
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so, does everyone in the babysitters club sort of end up in the occupation they sort of act like they would in the book? because, really, what are the chances of that?
I'll do Jessi. Even though I never read the book.
School's too hard, especially for someone having to work to pay bills, so she drops out "for a semester" to earn some cash, so she can take the next semester a little easier and pay attention more to her classes. But her car breaks down, so she has to buy a new one, and that means she has to work at the bank longer than she thought, but she figures NEXT semester she'll just go to school part time. But by the time the next semester has come around she didn't save any money - she picke dup an attraction to clubbing and night drinking, and since it had been a year she had to give up her dorm room, so she had to find a roomie and an apartment. She moved in with one of the party girls she worked with at the bank, and they started going out anymore - working out the days grey with drink and fun. Next thing you know she's sleeping around the bars - sewing her seeds, and next thing she knows she's forgotten all about school. The only time she really does is when old friends ask her when she's going to finish, which just makes her mad and therefore more likely to go out drink, dance and fuck. Now she just *used* to be a dancer - a line she uses to pick up guys who work at factories, or construciton sites - at best at cellular phone companies.
Eventually they hire a nice transfer to be head of telecommunications and they hit it off in a series of questionable work based escapades. In six month he propoeses and it's a summer wedding. All of her friends happy of course they're friend is getting married, but all worried about how her life has plataued, maybe just privately.
1.5 kid, vacations every other year, no more drinking, no more dancing, a lot of cable tv, little league games and a slow boring death that defies the excitement maybe that silly little club she was in as a kid.
Oh yeah, he has an aneurysm at 54 and she dies alone.
-K
Boys: what can ya do?
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