We did not end up going to the baseball game in Columbus this weekend. Saturday I went to a training on how to approach visiting sick church members. Stephanie mowed and clipped the front lawn and tended to some more plants. Our landlord’s air-conditioning repair people replaced the house’s central air-conditioning condenser outside.
We also took a nap and went somewhat inadvertently to the movie “Lymelife," a tale of Lyme disease and 1970s suburbia that reminded me a bit of Ang Lee’s somewhat edgier “Ice Storm.” It featured among others Jill Hennessy from “Law and Order” and “Crossing Jordan,” Alec Baldwin from “The Hunt for Red October,” and - from another 1970s tale of suburban woe - Timothy Hutton, from “Ordinary People.” (One of the two Caulkin brothers in the movie, Baldwin, and Hennessy in the movie pictured below.)
Sunday was our church’s big annual outdoor Pentecost Sunday service plus potluck. We weren’t able to talk Vincent into going to that – they honored graduating seniors and gave them a cake. But Vincent pleasantly surprised us by going to the annual end of the year church youth group picnic and swim (another potluck) at the Jewish Community Center (with parents too). He had basically not been to a youth group event since the start of the year Deam Lake event (see “Deam Lake”). But his girlfriend’s parents have put her on a diet of two visits with Vincent per month. After a late night out with Vincent and her older sister’s former (?) boyfriend Seth, Samantha was also on a cell phone ban. So, cut off somewhat from her Vincent went with us to the pool party and then went out for some more food with Stephanie, his former prom date (Jessi), and her mother and a friend of Jessi. Afterwards, somewhat manic Vincent came home and had a somewhat long, interesting conversation with Stephanie, which I didn’t catch all of.
The background for the late night and Samantha diet (he had still been walking her home from school almost every day, evading her parents’ ban in that respect) includes him urging her to resist her parents’ wishes more and him starting to hang out with Seth, a 20-year-old with a car who apparently also lives with his parents and has no job and is not going to school (all like Vincent). Seth supposedly has a kind of trust fund, was the youngest KY elected official (serving on the Moorland city council), and plotted last year with two 14-year-old girls to kill one of their friends. To learn more click here:
http://www.wlky.com/video/15979277/index.html
At the youth group picnic we learned that a church family knows the would-be victim.
So, now instead of going over to Samantha’s family’s house every night or walking her home every day, Vincent is riding around town with this accused murder conspirator who ironically ended up pleading guilty to the charge Vincent originally earned (making terrorist threats).
Monday, I remembered, was the fifth anniversary of my first day at the Presbyterian Center (June 1, 2004), and in the afternoon I remembered to bring in some treats.
I have been discovering with my new position (especially administrator of the Presbyterian Panel) I am more responsible for bringing in my own paying clients. Click here to see my first product as new Panel administrator (I wrote the summary based on results of a survey we take every three years – my predecessor wrote the survey and there is no client for this once every three years survey: http://www.pcusa.org/research/panel/summaries/08fall-summary.pdf )
It’s remotely possible that without such clients someday someone could decide to end the Panel, which might also involve cutting my position. Having some of this in mind made meeting all of these researchers in government and especially in the private sector (Gallup, Nielsen, Arbitron, etc.) at the conference in Florida more interesting.
Monday was the last day of school for students in Stephanie’s school district. Stephanie has been winding down for a while, since she has stopped pulling students. Wednesday was a second annual International Festival which she helped organize and got a front-page article in the local paper (lunch pictured): http://www.news-tribune.net/archivesearch/local_story_148134641.html
Monday Stephanie kept on eye on 5th grade students who had not earned a trip to Holiday World in southwestern Indiana.
Tuesday and Wednesday Stephanie has planning, grading, and clean-up days (though grades were due back on Friday). (We weren’t able to get Vincent up to work on his classes on the faster computers in her room.)
Next week she’ll substitute tutor for a couple of days. Then summer school will take place 8-12 for the final two weeks of June.
-- Perry
Sunday was our church’s big annual outdoor Pentecost Sunday service plus potluck. We weren’t able to talk Vincent into going to that – they honored graduating seniors and gave them a cake. But Vincent pleasantly surprised us by going to the annual end of the year church youth group picnic and swim (another potluck) at the Jewish Community Center (with parents too). He had basically not been to a youth group event since the start of the year Deam Lake event (see “Deam Lake”). But his girlfriend’s parents have put her on a diet of two visits with Vincent per month. After a late night out with Vincent and her older sister’s former (?) boyfriend Seth, Samantha was also on a cell phone ban. So, cut off somewhat from her Vincent went with us to the pool party and then went out for some more food with Stephanie, his former prom date (Jessi), and her mother and a friend of Jessi. Afterwards, somewhat manic Vincent came home and had a somewhat long, interesting conversation with Stephanie, which I didn’t catch all of.
The background for the late night and Samantha diet (he had still been walking her home from school almost every day, evading her parents’ ban in that respect) includes him urging her to resist her parents’ wishes more and him starting to hang out with Seth, a 20-year-old with a car who apparently also lives with his parents and has no job and is not going to school (all like Vincent). Seth supposedly has a kind of trust fund, was the youngest KY elected official (serving on the Moorland city council), and plotted last year with two 14-year-old girls to kill one of their friends. To learn more click here:
http://www.wlky.com/video/15979277/index.html
At the youth group picnic we learned that a church family knows the would-be victim.
So, now instead of going over to Samantha’s family’s house every night or walking her home every day, Vincent is riding around town with this accused murder conspirator who ironically ended up pleading guilty to the charge Vincent originally earned (making terrorist threats).
Monday, I remembered, was the fifth anniversary of my first day at the Presbyterian Center (June 1, 2004), and in the afternoon I remembered to bring in some treats.
I have been discovering with my new position (especially administrator of the Presbyterian Panel) I am more responsible for bringing in my own paying clients. Click here to see my first product as new Panel administrator (I wrote the summary based on results of a survey we take every three years – my predecessor wrote the survey and there is no client for this once every three years survey: http://www.pcusa.org/research/panel/summaries/08fall-summary.pdf )
It’s remotely possible that without such clients someday someone could decide to end the Panel, which might also involve cutting my position. Having some of this in mind made meeting all of these researchers in government and especially in the private sector (Gallup, Nielsen, Arbitron, etc.) at the conference in Florida more interesting.
Monday was the last day of school for students in Stephanie’s school district. Stephanie has been winding down for a while, since she has stopped pulling students. Wednesday was a second annual International Festival which she helped organize and got a front-page article in the local paper (lunch pictured): http://www.news-tribune.net/archivesearch/local_story_148134641.html
Monday Stephanie kept on eye on 5th grade students who had not earned a trip to Holiday World in southwestern Indiana.
Tuesday and Wednesday Stephanie has planning, grading, and clean-up days (though grades were due back on Friday). (We weren’t able to get Vincent up to work on his classes on the faster computers in her room.)
Next week she’ll substitute tutor for a couple of days. Then summer school will take place 8-12 for the final two weeks of June.
-- Perry
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Ugg, no more summer work for me! District asked me since they laid off the ESOL coordinator due to budget cuts. I declined.
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