they've been better, in the past. i was enjoying conversations with my kids, and got distracted now and again, and some of them got darker than i wanted.

eh.

e. was recommended for the "gifted program" at her school. i signed the form allowing her to leave her classroom for 45 minutes a week for a "pull out session" to go and explore problem solving and critical thinking. beloved is skeptical, and e. is freaked out. she said that's her science and social studies time .... beloved thinks it means she'll get more homework to "make up" the science and social studies that she misses. i think that everything is still being put into place (the program just went through some major re-vamping). i emailed her teacher to ask what will happen with the class time missed while she's Pulled Out. I'll await her response.

After my post on being lonely at law school this a.m., I underwent a little Internet Retail Therapy. I can't wait until boxes arrive, b/c until then, the depression may linger. I found some really cool looking boots ... not too casual, not too dressy - perfect for fall through that tail end of winter, and will look good with jeans as well as with (perhaps) some winter business casual clothes duing stupid icky-i-don't-want-to-go winter co-op.

i agreed to help out a friend tomorrow. this means that i finish class at 1:30 p.m., ride the bike like a LUNATIC to the girls' school (to arrive by 2), walk 5 kids (one of which being my own) to their after-school activity (starting at 2:30), then keep 1 kid with me (j's "best friend" - but j will not be with me, she'll be at her after-school PROGRAM - not the 'after school activity' which i am escorting others - one of which being e. - to.), walking her to the synagogue where her mom is working for approx. 3 p.m., and then jumping back on the bike, and (hopefully) arriving to Tax by 3:15. Phew!! Wish me luck.

and despite at least 2 references to Things Jewish, I am not in any way - not even the tiniest bit of my heritage - jewish. I am a gentile - through and through. and a heathen gentile at that.

oh - and j. has a stummy-ache tonight. (she informed me that "tummy" sounds like a baby talking, and "stomach" is too "old" and so her compromise is to call it her "stummy"). I am not sure how serious it is. She wanted to eat Latkes, and tried 3 times, but had to keep leaving the table for the bathroom, and then I rounded the corner to find her 1/2 asleep against the dining room wall. so .... I told her to go rest (it was 7:45 ... she usually goes to bed at 9:15 or so), and she has not emerged from her room since.

So perhaps I won't be racing from class to the kids' school to the after-school activity to the synagogue to class tomorrow ... perhaps instead i'll be racing from home to the school, to the after-school activity to the synagogue to home --- all with a sick kid in tow. We shall see.

posted by Zuska @ 10:27 PM

1 Comments:

At Friday, October 20, 2006 2:18:00 AM, The Marpepps! said…

First off, post some pics of the boots you!

Second, I did the gifted program, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me about how creative independent learning could be. A very valuable skill. And I obviously got smarter by the way I keep dangling my participles at. to.