ten good things
1) Patina adores me. She is sitting at my right hand as I type this, and if I lean forward just right, she'll lick and lick and lick my ear. I feel so loved.
2) Tiny Man and I sang to his little sister (shall I call her Honey Badger?) and it's the first time I've heard him sing a song someone else wrote. I like that kid a lot. Honey Badger has sung along to Taylor Swift, but not often.
3) "Shake It Off".
4) I like theorizing about Dragon Age with Angela. It's thinky and fun and I didn't have to do any of the playing, just the watching and filling in of plot.
5) Actually, we'll just put Angela on her own line.
6) My room is the most amazing blue still, and afternoon sun shines in the windows and makes the room glow.
7) Coffeeeeeee.
8) I had good ideas about improving police/student relations. We had a pair of really good officers come in to discuss everything the students wanted to know. We got Cop Cards, which are like baseball cards but for police officers, we talked about how not to be scared of cops or tickets, how to be a good advocate, how to ask for processing time, how sometimes you're not going to get it because it's an emergency, everything like that. Heybuddy is one of our main targets for this since Jailbird exited the program and landed directly in the justice system. Heybuddy had a really traumatic experience last year, and we think that if we can get him focused on the Cop Cards and saying hi to every officer he can, explicitly without consequence on his Don't Talk to Strangers yellow sheet, he'll be less freaked out and they'll know that he's a big goofy farm dog who wants to show you the log he found and can you throw it?
9) I've been playing so much Don't Starve it's not even funny. My two favorite things are character-based: Willow is immune to fire, so if I get bored I burn down whatever forest I'm in, and Woody occasionally turns into a werebeaver, so if I'm bored I chop down all the trees and start destroying forests and landscapes more directly. The game is very soothingly repetitive.
10) I don't have to drive anywhere this weekend. Or next weekend. I don't have anything scheduled for after school tomorrow. This is great.
10.5) You have to know Tiny Man to pronounce 'great' correctly.
2) Tiny Man and I sang to his little sister (shall I call her Honey Badger?) and it's the first time I've heard him sing a song someone else wrote. I like that kid a lot. Honey Badger has sung along to Taylor Swift, but not often.
3) "Shake It Off".
4) I like theorizing about Dragon Age with Angela. It's thinky and fun and I didn't have to do any of the playing, just the watching and filling in of plot.
5) Actually, we'll just put Angela on her own line.
6) My room is the most amazing blue still, and afternoon sun shines in the windows and makes the room glow.
7) Coffeeeeeee.
8) I had good ideas about improving police/student relations. We had a pair of really good officers come in to discuss everything the students wanted to know. We got Cop Cards, which are like baseball cards but for police officers, we talked about how not to be scared of cops or tickets, how to be a good advocate, how to ask for processing time, how sometimes you're not going to get it because it's an emergency, everything like that. Heybuddy is one of our main targets for this since Jailbird exited the program and landed directly in the justice system. Heybuddy had a really traumatic experience last year, and we think that if we can get him focused on the Cop Cards and saying hi to every officer he can, explicitly without consequence on his Don't Talk to Strangers yellow sheet, he'll be less freaked out and they'll know that he's a big goofy farm dog who wants to show you the log he found and can you throw it?
9) I've been playing so much Don't Starve it's not even funny. My two favorite things are character-based: Willow is immune to fire, so if I get bored I burn down whatever forest I'm in, and Woody occasionally turns into a werebeaver, so if I'm bored I chop down all the trees and start destroying forests and landscapes more directly. The game is very soothingly repetitive.
10) I don't have to drive anywhere this weekend. Or next weekend. I don't have anything scheduled for after school tomorrow. This is great.
10.5) You have to know Tiny Man to pronounce 'great' correctly.