Parenting

( Cut for those of you not interested in children )

EDIT: The point of this post is not the meat thing. That is an example of the point of this post, which is parenting decisions and the temptation to attempt to interfere with them.

I officially love every single one of my classes.

I left the house this morning at 7:09, and walked in the door four minutes ago, at 9:58 PM. I love having a busy schedule.

Highlights of today:

-I called Dr. Landuyt, and this one-on-one honors seminar is going to be great. I get to pick the topic, and I get to pretty much do whatever I want to do as a project. I'm thinking maybe I'll write that homeschooling report I've been meaning to design for new and prospective homeschoolers, and just make it more in-depth than originally planned.

-One of the people in my group for the political science project on developing countries is from Haiti, so we picked that as our country. We can use anecdotal evidence from her and interview her Haitian friends. This will be awesome.

-I found the "I have a cat" dude and asked him about the statement, because I just had to know. It was exactly as random as it seemed. He had no reasoning behind it. I think I'm in love.

-I talked to Vicki Raine, the head of the Humanities department, and she sent out an e-mail about the literary magazine to an English teacher, my boss at the TLC, Mindy (Student Activities boss), and two deans. This is a Good Thing.

-Shannon met her husband when they were both working at Chuck E. Cheese's. He worked the cash register and she was the person that danced around in the mouse costume at birthday parties. Sharai and I both find that hilarious.

-Speaking of Sharai, she's Christian! Yes, she's been one of my best friends for months, and I've known her for about a year, and I've somehow never figured that out. I prefer to think that she just doesn't throw it in people's faces, rather than that I'm just supremely oblivious.

-Mia called to ask a question about her French homework, and ended up telling me about her first few days of classes. She's never been to school, so the people in the back row dicking around on the Internet while her English teacher read a story was very weird for her. It sounds like she's enjoying herself and doing well so far, though, so yay for Mia!

-My first karate class was tonight. It was fantastic. It was like exercise, only fun, and without the discomfort. Sean from the bookstore is in it, so I know one person, and the guy I got paired up with (we were matched by size) was really nice. I'm going to need to buy dark exercise pants and tennis shoes that fit, because I was definitely not properly attired for the class. At least I wore a sports bra.