Datebook: Sunday, August 27th ~ 2006
My son came to me and said “Uh-oh!”
“What?” I inquired.
“I think she is going to be mad.”
My son is only sixteen but he is very intuitive and I respect his opinion. He is also like Anderson Cooper or the National Hurricane Center in predicting his sister’s mood.
“Oh.” I am ambivalent for a moment; my son is reading, and he is reading his mom’s words in “Mombo” and actually “taking them in”. Unfortunately I cannot bask in this joy because I immediately sense that he is right.
Yesterday might be worse than the Charlie White post, which was a category three.
“Well, I will have to explain that when I say “my daughter”, I actually mean, any member of her group. When I talk about her, it is really a ‘composite’ of parts of one or all of them.”
“And you think she’ll buy that?”
“I don’t know, what part needs work?”
“Probably anything after ‘Datebook that mentions “my daughter’”
“Uh-oh”.
In truth, my daughter is enmeshed with a group of close girlfriends who skate. They are all in various stages of the sport. One has already graduated from college, two are starting college, several are graduating high school soon, one was home-schooled. They skate senior, junior, novice and intermediate. A few have been in long partnerships, most are working through new ones, and a couple have stopped skating competitively. They have such a plethora of experiences that I could make five postings a day.
Right now they are all going through the “Section” selection. They have various methods of making the decision.
Some have made display boards of the all the possible choices for each team. As Daphne posts the choices announced by teams, these are highlighted and moved to the “Hard Board”—think of Jeopardy without the lights.
Others have decided on a “darts” approach. They got one of those maps from a middle school that no longer can teach geography to students (oh yes, not in the curriculum!) and they do the three out of five method of whipping darts to the sections they have colored in.
Others have gone to the Rock (West for rocky coast line), Paper (Mids- the flatness of the farmland), Scissors (East, well, because Lake Placid decides the cut).
None are foolproof. In a week the decisions will be made, the money sent, the section checked.
November will be very hard for me.
My “composite” daughter will be going to all three sections.
Mombo #9
“What?” I inquired.“I think she is going to be mad.”
My son is only sixteen but he is very intuitive and I respect his opinion. He is also like Anderson Cooper or the National Hurricane Center in predicting his sister’s mood.
“Oh.” I am ambivalent for a moment; my son is reading, and he is reading his mom’s words in “Mombo” and actually “taking them in”. Unfortunately I cannot bask in this joy because I immediately sense that he is right.
Yesterday might be worse than the Charlie White post, which was a category three.
“Well, I will have to explain that when I say “my daughter”, I actually mean, any member of her group. When I talk about her, it is really a ‘composite’ of parts of one or all of them.”
“And you think she’ll buy that?”
“I don’t know, what part needs work?”
“Probably anything after ‘Datebook that mentions “my daughter’”
“Uh-oh”.
In truth, my daughter is enmeshed with a group of close girlfriends who skate. They are all in various stages of the sport. One has already graduated from college, two are starting college, several are graduating high school soon, one was home-schooled. They skate senior, junior, novice and intermediate. A few have been in long partnerships, most are working through new ones, and a couple have stopped skating competitively. They have such a plethora of experiences that I could make five postings a day.
Right now they are all going through the “Section” selection. They have various methods of making the decision.
Some have made display boards of the all the possible choices for each team. As Daphne posts the choices announced by teams, these are highlighted and moved to the “Hard Board”—think of Jeopardy without the lights.
Others have decided on a “darts” approach. They got one of those maps from a middle school that no longer can teach geography to students (oh yes, not in the curriculum!) and they do the three out of five method of whipping darts to the sections they have colored in.
Others have gone to the Rock (West for rocky coast line), Paper (Mids- the flatness of the farmland), Scissors (East, well, because Lake Placid decides the cut).None are foolproof. In a week the decisions will be made, the money sent, the section checked.
November will be very hard for me.
My “composite” daughter will be going to all three sections.
Mombo #9
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