Friday, November 9, 2007

Middle School Madness

Today was not a noteworthy day, but in the spirit of my new viewerless blog, I wanted to enter anyway. The best news was the news of the guy who saw a beautiful girl on the subway and wanted to know who she was. By the time he worked up the nerve to talk to her, she had gone. So he created a website with a sketch of her and a description, and one of her friends responded! They went out last night for the first time and had plenty to talk about. They were on the news show this morning. She is from Australia. It was very cute.

But our lives were not so cute. Why are middle school kids allowed to wander free? Are they so rude, so stupid, or just so inconsiderate as to make an excuse like, "I can't come out" and then wander by with half a dozen or so friends to go and play exclusively without Brian? Is it the chiari? Is it the no-tackle policy? Or is it something else that has made this elite little group suddenly decide to ostracize my son? Perhaps we may never know. This is uncharted territory, and it's not in the handbook. Instead, we went to visit the cats at the Humane Society. We found two of the siblings of our new kitten, Rusty, were still there. Which means that someone must have taken (we hope!) the other one we were considering. If we didn't already have so many, I would have come home with those other two on the spot!

Three days of the weekend remain! Sometimes I don't know what to do with all the time, and then it's gone.

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