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To: jlallen who wrote (64944)	3/20/2004 10:41:50 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

How funny! I have this idea that lawyers would be good in math, which I realize makes NO sense at all. Actually I have this sneaking suspicion that everyone is good in math but me and they are just being kind and pretending, the way you humor seriously handicapped people. I can't tell you how many plane trips I spent having CW draw formulas and math problems on napkins while I sat there, eyes glazed, in total uncomprehension. I have an automatic reaction when someone tries to get me to understand math. I cry. I'm convinced it's a form of PTSD from my Algebra class where the teacher threw an eraser at me one day in frustration. Aren;t children the most amazing things to watch develop? Yours are getting so old! 17. Ah, you must be starting the college stuff. Very happy-sad year.

To: jlallen who wrote (64944)	3/20/2004 1:49:26 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

that's cool, JLA. My nephew, the oldest, is a philospher/king sort, but niece #1 is a scientist off to college next year. She's deciding between the CDC and the FBI. lol. Niece #2 at 15 had decided on being a math teacher. #1, as a jr. in h.s. was a quest lecturer in science at jr. highs. It does amaze. I like to send them articles on the lapse in science and math in this country. It makes me all the more proud of them. But their father is a math whiz. And so is my sister. She was whizzing thru Calc 2 while I was trying my hand at algebra for the second year. It took me 3 to finish it. But she leans toward social science, so the kids don't really know what a whiz she was. As to science, and Rambi's frog, I got a C in biology, my only science class. I aced the tests (short term retention from reading, then the data dump) and got F's on all the labs, since I wouldn't do them. My nephew, as a teen, was trying to explain the physics of doing something with a quitar string to me. "uhm, can we talk poetry now, newphew?" gotta love 'em. That is great about your son. Nephew will be in D.C soon for a two month internship at the capital. Maybe he will pass your way, if I remember right that you are around there?