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Tuesday, October 08, 2002

Clever
So tonight's homework has the word Clever in it. The definition is mentally quick and original. You ask for an explanation of this. I begin to explain and suddenly you exclaim, "I know, K & I are always the first ones in class to raise our hands when the teacher asks for the answer or volunteers to read or whatever." I smile. Yes that is clever. Exactly like I was as a boy. I always had my hand up first. It will cause you problems. It will cause others to call you teacher's pet and ultimately it will cause rifts between you and your classmates. It will be very hard on you to be so clever. I am very proud of you.
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Tonight you said adults are so weird.

All I can say is you have no idea how weird they can be.
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Falling Star Wishes
The other night you saw your first falling star. You were so excited. It was your first time. You made a wish. We both giggled.

You used to love to throw coins into fountains. For the first couple of years you didn't tell me your wish but one day you told me that you needed to get a new wish. Up till then you had made a wish for your mother to come back. I never knew until you decided it was no use any more to make that wish.

Then you started wishing for a puppy when you threw pennies in the fountain. Someday I may find out what you wished for on your first falling star.
7:29:50 PM    comment []

Doing Roots With Geeks
This weekend we tackled the subject of being a geek. I said, I don't recall what started it, that I was a geek and had been since my school days. I said to be sure you are a geek as well. You declared, "I am not." You asked what does geek mean? Well, I explained, that it is usually a word with a large variety of meanings but it generally means someone who is very smart, who is very different from most people around them, and who tends to get very interested in specific things. You gave me this weird little embarrassed smile and said yea I guess I am a geek.

Fast forward to the next day. We have "I" over with us for a spend the night. We are going to see "Spirited Away" and as the three of us are walking along the street to the movie theater we begin doing root problems. First we did squared roots, then cube roots, then fourth roots, and as we got to the movie and we stood in line I explained that we, the two eight year olds & I, had just done a very geekish thing by figuring roots in the air as we walked.

The two nice women who stood in line behind us waiting to get into the movie asked us when we would begin doing quantum problems. I just smiled. You and "I" proudly declared "We are geeks!" I assured you both we were a long way away from casually picking up quantum mechanics on the street. Then we went in to see the gorgeous and awe inspiring film.
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