27 May 2010
I took Owen to preschool this morning. We were listening to his CDs in the car, because we always listen to his CDs in the car. These disks are random songs from different performers that I burned soon after we bought the Saturn. The Saturn, incidentally, is the first vehicle we’ve ever owned with a CD-player in it.
On the way to school, Owen asked me if he could hear the crying song, which is his way of asking for “It’s Alright to Cry,” from the kids’ show Free To Be You and Me. It wasn’t on the disk we were listening to, so I had to swap it out with another disk. It wasn’t on that one, either. Or the next one. Or the next one. This was quite funny to Owen.
I finally found the song on the fifth (of five) disk. After listening to the song, the next song, “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” came on, and I watched Owen in the rearview mirror as he gestured the different parts of the song. I think he’s learning that song for his class graduation. When “Spider” was done, Owen asked to hear the crying song again. The song finished right as we pulled into the parking lot of his school.
I just thought that was a fun way to start the day.
28 May 2010
I am pleased to announce that Jennifer and I received all A’s in our classes this past semester. Jennifer found out two days ago, but my grade was just posted this afternoon. I think this is a significant accomplishment considering we did this despite working full-time (me), being pregnant (Jennifer), raising a young child, and being sick the entire first month of the semester.
Also, they don’t tell you this when they post the grades online, but Jennifer and I had perfect attendance last semester (and the semester before that, too). I had to leave class about 15 minutes early one day to take care of Owen, and I think Jennifer arrived at class about 10 minutes late once or twice. But despite having to drive Owen off to preschool, and despite me coming from work each day, we still managed to make it to all of our classes.
Although I had seven assignments due in class this past semester, only four of them were papers based on texts the class was assigned to read. I will now list those four texts and the grade I received on each one’s respective paper:
Thomas and Beulah: A-
A Raisin in the Sun: A
The Lovely Bones: A
Best American Short Stories 2009: A
I think this really shows the importance of reading the assigned text from cover to cover. Because, I must confess, I did not read Thomas and Beulah completely, having been thoroughly lost and bored about 1/3 of the way through. As a result, you’ll notice, my grade suffered.