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May. 7th, 2014 08:04 amThe transit millage passed pretty overwhelmingly (something like 70% of the vote). I'm very pleased. I don't ride the buses often because I don't leave the house often, but when I do go out, I need the buses. Having more options will be a good thing.
I got Cordelia from school around 2:30 yesterday, and we went to catch the bus. Because it was the middle of the day and because the university has ended its main school year (graduation was Saturday), the bus was only about half full. We got seats together. It was about 3:00 when we got to campus.
I'd promised Cordelia bubble tea, so we picked that up on the way to the dentist. Even with that, we were still about twenty minutes early. It's just as well. They took Cordelia back early and finished with her in under half an hour. I thought they'd take longer because it usually takes about an hour for me to have a cleaning. Scott called about 3:30, and I asked him if he could come get us.
It took an hour for Scott to arrive. That was longer than I expected. Cordelia and I were out on the porch (the dentist's office is the lower floor of a house) until Cordelia got too scared of the bugs and fled back inside. There were bees on one side of the porch, but when we moved to the other side, there weren't bees. Cordelia was simply terrified by any flying bug that came by. It was a housefly that was the final straw for her-- It buzzed, you see.
I ended up standing on the porch for the whole time. I wasn't comfortable sitting down anywhere. This means that my feet really hurt by the time Scott arrived.
At 6:15, I went to the Q&A for the new STEAM program. I didn't learn a lot that was new. People tended to ask versions of the same question over and over, hoping for more detailed answers. The new principal did tell us that the sixth graders will be upstairs and that they will (somehow!) have multiple teachers. The summer between Cordelia's sixth grade and seventh grade years, they plan to build a second story over one of the current one story wings. That new floor will house all the middle schoolers.
They're still doing interviews for staff, but they've finished the first round interviews for the classroom teachers. They're just waiting because they don't know how many teachers they're actually going to need. They currently have commitments from enough families to have two classes per grade, but they have enough undecided families that, if those families commit, they would need a third class per grade.
It's raining hard right now which doesn't bode well for tonight's soccer practice. Scott will probably be glad if practice is canceled. He'll regret it for the girls, but for himself... He has to go in to work at 3 a.m. tomorrow, and practice means getting to bed later than he really should. Normally, Scott takes the go in early on Saturday, but this week he can't. He's got a sleep study Friday night and a full day, what with soccer and the Science Olympiad, after that.
I got Cordelia from school around 2:30 yesterday, and we went to catch the bus. Because it was the middle of the day and because the university has ended its main school year (graduation was Saturday), the bus was only about half full. We got seats together. It was about 3:00 when we got to campus.
I'd promised Cordelia bubble tea, so we picked that up on the way to the dentist. Even with that, we were still about twenty minutes early. It's just as well. They took Cordelia back early and finished with her in under half an hour. I thought they'd take longer because it usually takes about an hour for me to have a cleaning. Scott called about 3:30, and I asked him if he could come get us.
It took an hour for Scott to arrive. That was longer than I expected. Cordelia and I were out on the porch (the dentist's office is the lower floor of a house) until Cordelia got too scared of the bugs and fled back inside. There were bees on one side of the porch, but when we moved to the other side, there weren't bees. Cordelia was simply terrified by any flying bug that came by. It was a housefly that was the final straw for her-- It buzzed, you see.
I ended up standing on the porch for the whole time. I wasn't comfortable sitting down anywhere. This means that my feet really hurt by the time Scott arrived.
At 6:15, I went to the Q&A for the new STEAM program. I didn't learn a lot that was new. People tended to ask versions of the same question over and over, hoping for more detailed answers. The new principal did tell us that the sixth graders will be upstairs and that they will (somehow!) have multiple teachers. The summer between Cordelia's sixth grade and seventh grade years, they plan to build a second story over one of the current one story wings. That new floor will house all the middle schoolers.
They're still doing interviews for staff, but they've finished the first round interviews for the classroom teachers. They're just waiting because they don't know how many teachers they're actually going to need. They currently have commitments from enough families to have two classes per grade, but they have enough undecided families that, if those families commit, they would need a third class per grade.
It's raining hard right now which doesn't bode well for tonight's soccer practice. Scott will probably be glad if practice is canceled. He'll regret it for the girls, but for himself... He has to go in to work at 3 a.m. tomorrow, and practice means getting to bed later than he really should. Normally, Scott takes the go in early on Saturday, but this week he can't. He's got a sleep study Friday night and a full day, what with soccer and the Science Olympiad, after that.
