Today's edition of My First World Problems, Let Me Show You Them: just realized I can't eat Coq au Vin anymore because it has mushrooms. Damn it.

Jesse, I guess you are right. I think we would stay for K-1, although he is at the high end of 1 - can read fluently and add and subtract, so way above the level of the average entering K. But he is socially slow and on the young end, so on that level K-1 would actually be a bonus. If I could be sure that the K teacher they have would be his teacher, I would feel better. Its the possibility of last-minute switcheroo that is stressful. (At our GA school they steadfastly refused to give classroom assignments until the afternoon before school started, which I can now see has some advantages.)

How hard is going to be to have them at two schools? If you really want him in with Casper, I would present it as a done deal, but make it as awesome-sounding as possible. As in, "Guess what? We found out you could go to Casper's school! Wouldn't that be great?"

Otherwise, I would wait and see what his reaction to the school is tonight. If he likes it and seems curious, then you can go that way, and otherwise keep in his old school?

ION the number of people who want my free analog tube 20 inch TV on Craigslist is pretty amazing. I mean, it works and is a good TV, but it's like 20 years old!

That CNN piece is awesome Jilli!

I can't eat Coq au Vin anymore because it has mushrooms. Damn it.

Well, you can make Coq au Vin without them. I love mushrooms, but I do think the necessary ingredients there are: bacon, chicken, red wine. Everything else can be swapped out or substituted. Can you do it with eggplant instead? I've found it a moderately successful substitution.

Of course, this doesn't resolve the problems of ordering it in a restaurant.

Are you allergic, or is this merely recommended? I don't think I've heard of mushroom allergies.

Oh, I should have warned you, shrift--I'm coming to Chicago the weekend of Sep 7. My SIL got us tickets for Springsteen--9th row at Wrigley Field. However it's also the 1st anniversary of the opening of my brother's restaurant, so I'm not sure whether I'll have time to see any Buffistas...

Well, you can make Coq au Vin without them.

It's being served for lunch, so I'm out of luck.

Are you allergic, or is this merely recommended? I don't think I've heard of mushroom allergies.

Apparently I'm a special 1% of the population snowflake? I have an anaphylactic reaction. I'm also allergic to pollen and mold, so I think it's related.

Oh, I should have warned you, shrift--I'm coming to Chicago the weekend of Sep 7.

I should be in town if you do end up with spare time.

flea, if I were in your shoes, I'd bring Dillo tonight to meet the K teacher and let him know that you were hoping to enroll him and have the two of them at the same school. If he throws a fit and/or you don't think the K teacher is set to handle a K/1 split, you can always switch him back to his old school.

If you get a chance, I'd talk to the K teacher about how she plans to meet the needs of the first graders in her room. I could see it working out nicely for them. They'd sort of naturally rise to leadership positions in the class.

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

That's my reaction. It reminds me of the treatment of Ingrid Bergman after her affair with Rossellini except that this isn't the fucking 50s anymore.

I don't know the details of the Snow White sequel, but it sounds to me like the studio was committed to the director and for whatever reason, the director felt that he couldn't work with Kristin Stewart again. Perhaps it was because his wife threatened the continual health of his balls.

I also heard tell that they had been planning a Huntsman spinoff anyway (without SW), so maybe that was there excuse?

unrelated to everything, I love the new No Doubt song and cannot stop singing it.