Emily
Dec. 9th, 2005|07:47 pm: Emily is student of the month! I went to an assembly this morning where she and a few other students accepted their awards. I’ve never seen Emily so worried about how she looks. Last night she had clothes layed out, ready to wear to accept her award. And this morning she was completely patient while I brushed her hair, which is pretty unusual. She mentioned how much she hated walking up there in front of everyone. (She was student of the month last year too.) As we were getting ready to leave, she wanted to change her mind about the clothes she was wearing. I told her no way, we were leaving. The award thing was fun, I got some pictures and went home. And I finally got to meet both of their teachers.
Bob came over with a dresser for the kids and a couple of bikes, which was really nice. I’d planned to buy them bikes this Spring but I guess now I don’t have to. They really needed a dresser too. Now I just need to find them beds and get a dresser for myself.
At lunch time, I went back to the school and had lunch with Emily. Since she’s student of the month, she gets to have a parent have lunch with her. Plus she got to eat ice cream in front of a lot of jealous classmates, which she shared with me. Payton’s teacher saw me there so he let Payton out of class so he could sit with us during lunch. Then I hung out with Emily for recess. When I left, Payton was having lunch so I said goodbye to him before leaving. The whole school experience was really fun. Payton’s teacher told me that Payton acts middle-aged in the way he speaks to everyone. I guess he means by Payton’s impatient and snappy remarks.
Today Jammie is coming to visit me from New York again. Right now I’m sitting in the Portland airport, just killing time. Jammie thinks I’m insane for arriving at the airport seven hours before her plane gets here. I just wanted to get out of the house for awhile, though. I was going to take a train from here into Portland and find something to do. Instead I had supper at Wendy’s and I’ve been typing on my laptop ever since then. I just finished taking a break to visit a few of the shops in the airport, then fixed some major security issues on phonelosers.org from the new Shoutbox I put up. Only 3.5 hours until Jammie arrives!
The carpet in this airport hasn’t changed in over 11 years. I should know since I used to live here and got to know the carpet quite well from sleeping on it and sitting on it for days, typing away at my laptop for hours at a time. I wonder if the new parts of the airport have the same hideous pattern. It sucks that they only let ticketed passengers past the checkpoints anymore. A lot of the coolest stuff is past the checkpoints. Anyway, it’s ugly-ass carpet.