Tuesday: site meeting, more pie
Sep. 26th, 2023 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI made a pie. I intentionally overshot on the oil, and I used whisky instead of water. It was crumbly. This fucking around with the proportions is so much fun and so educational. Altho, I emptied the last of the King Arthur Special Patent (that was the flour I bought during the pandemic to prove that acquiring white flour was just not that hard, because I am actually a complete asshole about some things) into the canister, so once that’s gone, if I want white flour, I’ll have to bolt it myself. Which is fine, because I have an attachment for the bosch universal for precisely that purpose.
A. got a birthday phone call. She was very happy about it!
We drove out to Northampton for a site meeting. It was a productive meeting. I met T. in person for the first time, so that was cool. R. usually does the outdoor stuff, but S. wanted us both and honestly, I think he really wanted me to make sure that the decision making around trees went the way it needs to go. So that was good. There’s one beech that I’m mildly sad about, but not sad enough to interfere with my ability to appreciate the dilemmas its location presents.
Yesterday, T. wanted to drive over to Worcester and Fitchburg because his on call did not lead to an actual shift and he didn’t have school so he was bored. But it was late afternoon and it was raining and I didn’t want him driving in unfamiliar areas, trying to look at things, during rush hour as it was getting dark. Seemed like a recipe for a fender bender, honestly. I told him he could go discuss it with his dad. In the event, he opted not to driver over, but to spend a bunch of time on college websites. _And then he just applied to all three schools_. And scheduled tours and so forth. I think he applied early action at all three of them? He filled out — he says — the mandatory parts of all of them, and explained about his learning disabilities and did not do any of the optional parts. R. was like, can you really do early action on multiples? And yeah, I mean, there are only a few schools that restrict that, so, come on. I kept thinking, this is a _genius_ maneuver. I mean, it’s still September. He’s being absolutely up front about all the disabilities. He did not involve anyone else in any of this — not even the school guidance counselor, who he has been working with in general, but this was _entirely_ an impulse driven activity. They are all test optional. I just keep thinking, _it’s September_. They probably have no other applications, and this thing lands in front of them. And then if it is missing stuff, I assume they reach out, because, disabilities. And there’s no way he doesn’t get points for effort on this thing, _especially_ once they find out (if they find out!) that he did this entirely without any assistance. What college would not want someone like that? I can barely wait to find out what the next surprise on this path is gonna be. I really was trying to get him to delay the college planning thing until after he got through his senior year, and do a partial super senior year to separate the hazards, but honestly, what the hell. There’s clearly no holding this one back.
A. got a birthday phone call. She was very happy about it!
We drove out to Northampton for a site meeting. It was a productive meeting. I met T. in person for the first time, so that was cool. R. usually does the outdoor stuff, but S. wanted us both and honestly, I think he really wanted me to make sure that the decision making around trees went the way it needs to go. So that was good. There’s one beech that I’m mildly sad about, but not sad enough to interfere with my ability to appreciate the dilemmas its location presents.
Yesterday, T. wanted to drive over to Worcester and Fitchburg because his on call did not lead to an actual shift and he didn’t have school so he was bored. But it was late afternoon and it was raining and I didn’t want him driving in unfamiliar areas, trying to look at things, during rush hour as it was getting dark. Seemed like a recipe for a fender bender, honestly. I told him he could go discuss it with his dad. In the event, he opted not to driver over, but to spend a bunch of time on college websites. _And then he just applied to all three schools_. And scheduled tours and so forth. I think he applied early action at all three of them? He filled out — he says — the mandatory parts of all of them, and explained about his learning disabilities and did not do any of the optional parts. R. was like, can you really do early action on multiples? And yeah, I mean, there are only a few schools that restrict that, so, come on. I kept thinking, this is a _genius_ maneuver. I mean, it’s still September. He’s being absolutely up front about all the disabilities. He did not involve anyone else in any of this — not even the school guidance counselor, who he has been working with in general, but this was _entirely_ an impulse driven activity. They are all test optional. I just keep thinking, _it’s September_. They probably have no other applications, and this thing lands in front of them. And then if it is missing stuff, I assume they reach out, because, disabilities. And there’s no way he doesn’t get points for effort on this thing, _especially_ once they find out (if they find out!) that he did this entirely without any assistance. What college would not want someone like that? I can barely wait to find out what the next surprise on this path is gonna be. I really was trying to get him to delay the college planning thing until after he got through his senior year, and do a partial super senior year to separate the hazards, but honestly, what the hell. There’s clearly no holding this one back.