Right, the scheduling issue becomes very problematic when there isn't a parent home during the day. That, combined with other factors, especially ease and frequence of communication, leads to students that need a tremendous amount of attention and guidance.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 30: Going on Thirteen
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
megan walker - Jun 12, 2006 6:26:49 am PDT #9097 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
SuziQ - Jun 12, 2006 6:28:36 am PDT #9098 of 10002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Nicole! OMG I am so ready! Hey, can I use your washer/dryer while I'm there?
DavidS - Jun 12, 2006 6:31:54 am PDT #9099 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Finally have pic of new haircut:
Holy fuck. meep.
Cindy, if it weren't for the working/commuting/custody issues I'd love to let Emmett have the kind of summer I had, which was completely unstructured and free and involved me riding my orange spider-bike (with banana seat and sissy bar) all over South Florida and spending my lawn-mowing money on comic books and 50 cent used copies of A Princess Of Mars and Swords Against Deviltry and Solomon Kane and Icees and idle day dreaming.
In fact, I'm thinking of giving Emmett a couple weeks free of camp this summer since I'm not working. Not that he doesn't thrive in camp. He runs around like a maniac and burns off a ton of energy. But some slack time would be great too.
Sparky1 - Jun 12, 2006 6:36:35 am PDT #9100 of 10002
Librarian Warlord
pending my lawn-mowing money
Is there a way for kids Emmett's age to earn money these days (besides from you or his mom)? 'Suela, another librarian and I were talking yesterday about the seemingly clueless university students and adults to come in to interview without knowing what job they've applied for, how to show up on time, how to call in when one is sick, etc. Common sense skills I feel like I began to learn on my paper route, age 11.
Polter-Cow - Jun 12, 2006 6:41:11 am PDT #9101 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I have finished The Name of the Rose !
I pwn some of you.
DavidS - Jun 12, 2006 6:42:00 am PDT #9102 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is there a way for kids Emmett's age to earn money these days (besides from you or his mom)?
Hmmm. Not really. He does do some chores for cash. Unfortunately, his Mom is Bad With Money and has undermined that whole working-for-cash-rewards paradigm.
I expect when Emmett gets into later middle school / early high school he'll be able to get some camp counselor type jobs at least. If he stays in baseball, he'd have a chance to umpire games for money when he gets to be about 15. But the whole lawn-mowing /babysitting circuit I had as a kid isn't as available. I guess there's still babysitting, but he's too young now.
Amy - Jun 12, 2006 6:42:33 am PDT #9103 of 10002
Because books.
I forgot to say how gorgeous Raq's haircut is! The hottitude knocked me out, clearly. And mom-ish? Not. At. All.
erikaj - Jun 12, 2006 6:43:52 am PDT #9104 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Never really had a super-scheduled summer because, pre-ADA, none of that kind of stuff ever felt the obligation to let me in and the ADA didn't kick in till I was sixteen and trying not to be curmudgeonly already. Went to crip camp a few times(this one time? At crip camp...) But I didn't really fit there either. I suspect I was already too old to be jazzed by campfire-type amusements. Always nice to know *how many* ways you can be ostracized, I suppose.
DavidS - Jun 12, 2006 6:43:59 am PDT #9105 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And mom-ish? Not. At. All.
Yeah, that's really not an issue. Except in a MILFy way.
How's your hair, AmyLiz? Are you slowly coaxing the bangs out?
Amy - Jun 12, 2006 6:47:45 am PDT #9106 of 10002
Because books.
this one time? At crip camp...
Bwah!
Are you slowly coaxing the bangs out?
I am indeed. I love how full it is in the back now, too. Seems much thicker, which is purely due to the cut.
Of course, growing bangs would be easier if I had some music to do it by. And, you know, to write by. ::blinks innocently::