Hi, Mephisto!!! Yes, love sure can get you into trouble!!! I am taking it easy this year, and concentrating on friendship and financial goals and practical things instead, trying to stay calm and plan my future.
There is not much schoolwork to settle into during eighth grade. The children in San Francisco are so busy running around visiting high schools and gathering letters of recommendation and growing into their full height that academic subjects seem to play second fiddle. This is a little how I remember senior year of high school--the academic work was hard, but there was a keen celebration, a rite of passage going on which was more important. Once the acceptance or rejection letters from college came, in particular, it seemed like a well-deserved rest after a VERY long childhood.
I would also have to say that school is much harder now--my child is several years ahead of where I was in critical thinking skills, term paper writing and research skills, and has learned much more about the outside world in the sense of changing it and making it better through environmentalism. Those Fuji Photo ads about children today are very well done and accurate. Have you seen them? That's sort of what I am talking about.
What have you been up to lately? Getting ready for El Nino? It was ninety-seven one day last week in San Francisco, breaking all records, and one evening we were so hot we drove to the beach, only to encounter almost everyone in town out there, cooling down. A real camaraderie that is unusual in a city, and a traffic jam as well!!!!
There were newspaper articles today on tying down your branches, protecting your shrubs, cleaning out the storm drains and other pretty alarming stuff. At least here, El Nino is being taken very seriously. Of course, being a romantic sort of person, I have a lifetime supply of candles lying around. Being totally impractical and a little ditzy, I have no idea where even one match is at the moment!!! A life out of balance, oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
