You get Scola this week, right?

I'm right around the corner from you!

I have been mostly ignoring and completely not-caring about the whole thing, but I'm beginning to feel a little bad for her. She did a deeply stupid, deeply wrong thing, badly hurt her boyfriend, blew up their relationship and possibly blew up somebody's marriage, but she's what, 22? I did some monumentally fucking stupid self-destructive things at 22, as did practically everyone else I know, and the thought of both doing those things and then having to be publicly dissected for months afterward just makes my skin crawl.

I'm right around the corner from you!

You mean JZ, right?

::peers around corner of cubicle::

WTF. She's getting fired from jobs for screwing around???? In HOLLYWOOD???

We get a Scola!

Tom, Hec is hopping in the shower now, and he says that you should just feel free to come over and ring our bell anytime after 8:30 or 9.

I'm with you, JZ.

We get a Scola!

But not actually with you, dangit.

Is there a drug store or a convenience store that is open right now? The place I would usually go is now a Whole Foods.

There's a Walgreens about 3 blocks from you, at Stanyan and Parnassus, and a corner market right across the street from that. Walgreens opens in about 60 seconds and the corner market's been open since 7.

Scola, talk to strangers on the street. go on. good way to waste some time. take some pictures.

Today is Julia Child's 100th birthday and there is a pretty good piece in the Times that is making me want to cook all sorts of calorie-laden things.

Also today is the ice cream social/meet your teacher at the kids' new school, and I need advice. Apologies for the necessary backstory. Casper knows she will be attending this school, and is all set. She's attending the gifted academy, grades 3-6, which operated last year in a different space but at least has some history. She has homeroom teacher's name and a list of classmates. Dillo is enrolled for 1st grade in the other part of the school (in the same building), which is new. They started in May having hired a K teacher, and in June started also enrolling PreK and 1st grade students (they will ultimately expand to K-6 over 2-3 years). They have now hired a preK teacher. As of yesterday they had NOT hired a 1st grade teacher. The class list we received Monday has 5 kids enrolled in 1st grade; yesterday the office said they were continuing to enroll new kids and the number would be higher. They said they would NOT dis-enroll any 1st graders; they would either hire a 1st grade teacher, or have a joint K-1 class.

Note: school starts a week from today. Now, because of the precariousness of all this, we have not yet told Dillo, who tends to be a worrier, that we have enrolled him at this school. He thinks he is going back to our old school. I was planning to tell him tonight at the open house, when he could see his classroom and meet his teacher, and have a sense of the concrete reality of it. But they have not hired his teacher, so I cannot show him his classroom and a friendly smiling face.

What to do? We can 1) tell him tonight and introduce the K teacher (who is very nice) and elide the whole uncertainty thing; 2) keep pretending he is going to the old school and tell him either when the situation is settled or the day before school starts, whichever comes sooner; 3) say to hell with this insanity and switch him back to our old school. I'm pretty angry about this; I understand the scramble of getting a new school off the ground (the principal was only hired in July), but with one week to the first day of school I expected this to be worked out. I am tempted to call the principal and ask her what she expects me to tell my son tonight, you know? (So, what should I do?)