conuly

Mostly.

Now, I realize that they are required to have a certain number of half-days and administrative days (where the teachers go in but the kids don't) in the year. And I can appreciate that you might want to put them near the end of the calendar just in case you have a substantial number of snow days and whatnot to mess with the plans. I get it.

But it's absolutely absurd to have a calendar that gives us a half day on Tuesday, a whole day off on Thursday, and then another half day on Monday. And the school year ends with a half day on Tuesday the 28th. And yes, they make you come in (or send your kids in) for that last half day, at least, they do if you intend to get a report card. (Well, it's better than last year, a damn half day on a Monday. WTF?)

The one advantage of these half days is that the nieces get to have a nice, hot, homemade lunch. I mean, lunch is served on half days, but I mostly send them with just a snack and make something at home.

The disadvantage of these half days is that the nieces get to whine about their nice, hot, homemade lunch. *sigh* Well, Ana does. She's the one who eats her breakfast, and her sister's too. Evangeline is the one who eats her lunch, and has Ana's for an afternoon snack. (And on that note, I'm going to try pasta puttanesca this Tuesday. Evangeline will eat it no matter what, and Ana won't, so I don't think it matters what I make.)

I keep thinking maybe it'd be better to take one of those half days off and go do something for the day instead. I mean, they're at the *end of the year*! (Now we see the secret plan. Nothing gets done on half days anyway, so why not put them during the month when nobody expects to learn anything?) If Jenn and 'dul okay it, maybe we'll take the Monday and head to a museum or something. Might hit the Tenement museum like I wanted to, make a day of it. I mean, I never went to school on a half day when I was their age, because we were really far from our school.

What I really want to do, this summer anyway, is GO SOMEWHERE. I don't just live in a city, I live in a city that's in a whole cluster of cities, and we never go anywhere. (Heck, like most people, we hardly go anywhere within our own city either!) There's no reason we can't take a day trip out of the city and do something else, if only I knew what I wanted to do outside of the city. Ideas?

Probably. I mean, it could be false labor, but that's looking doubtful. Going over to her house after Ana wakes up from her nap, will probaby stay overnight.

Friday we (by which I mean me and my mom, not me and Jenn) are going to see a performance of Tam Lin. My mother's worried, the way it's advertised, that there may be too many children.

I don't get it. This is a ballad about a girl who goes into the woods and either gets raped or not and so she ends up pregnant. Then she goes back into the woods to pick flowers either to call her babydaddy or to lose the baby, whatever, and he tells her that he's about to be murdered as a sacrifice to Hell by his kidnappers. And then she saves his life, while he turns into all manner of frightening things.

And it starts at 8pm.

Even I find it hard to see why this would be considered a children's performance in anybody's mind.

So, all this summer, on Fridays my family went to the drumming circle in Wagner Park (part of Battery Park City).

Apparently, in May-June it's not drumming but "Sing together. Share rounds and folk songs. No experience necessary. Singers of all ages welcome. Led by singer/songwriter Terre Roche."

Interesting.... *makes note of this*

And I still can't figure out where, exactly, the preschool art program is supposed to be. Oh, dear.