Monday Vincent started his job, which may just last through the stocking the store. Vincent was tired when we picked him up – not just from getting up early but from standing up for most of eight hours and lifting things. Something had cut his finger – he had a band-aid. It occurred to me that getting up every morning at 8 a.m. may make him sick at some point (plus all that smoking). He ended up eating and watching TV with us until 9 p.m. and then going to bed, and so no school work. I don’t know if he got up early enough Tuesday morning to do any schoolwork.
When asked, he told his mother that working was harder than going to school.
He also talked and texted – presumably with Jessi – a lot.
I see one of the reasons he got a job is that he’s got days – in the abstract – free. He says a smaller number of people work with him during the day – including a college student who also works at UPS – and then at 3 p.m. a number of kids who have just gotten out of high school show up. He said he befriended one of those people.
We’re trying to pick him up as often as possible. I’m afraid if we suggest he takes the bus, he’ll call one of his friends and get a ready – of course, he’s supposed to be on “house arrest” – but if he gets a ride who’s to say whether they dilly-dallied on the way home. The main thing is we want him to finish those two classes (and then keep going).
Stephanie was to pull kids for the first time today. I finished the report for a modest-sized project I’ve been working on for the Presbytery of Cincinnati for almost a year and sent off the materials – although the main client has a family illness and I’m trying to make sure Tuesday that someone actually got it.
My Mother gave her report on SAT data Monday, which went OK, although she had to make a correction to last week’s report.
Stephanie and I both have after-work things today – me, Toastmasters; Stephanie, open house for families of her students – and so we’ll see how things go with Vincent after work.
Some good health news: Vincent – at home more recently with the house arrest – no doubt will get lots of exercise at his new job – and hopefully won’t also get a hernia. For most of the past week, Stephanie has been getting up early enough to do a new DVD version of the old pilates exercise video she got from Mom and some minutes of a more aerobic new DVD (almost 45 minutes total!) and has started to lose weight (no such good news on the weight front for me).
My Mother gave her report on SAT data Monday, which went OK, although she had to make a correction to last week’s report.
Stephanie and I both have after-work things today – me, Toastmasters; Stephanie, open house for families of her students – and so we’ll see how things go with Vincent after work.
Some good health news: Vincent – at home more recently with the house arrest – no doubt will get lots of exercise at his new job – and hopefully won’t also get a hernia. For most of the past week, Stephanie has been getting up early enough to do a new DVD version of the old pilates exercise video she got from Mom and some minutes of a more aerobic new DVD (almost 45 minutes total!) and has started to lose weight (no such good news on the weight front for me).
Since he got sick and spent a week plus at the vets – all the more so with summer weather finally arriving – Frisco has been unable to get through his usual walks without trying to stop (and – when I’m walking him – having me carry him – some times for half a block – sometimes several blocks). This morning – when it’s cooler than during the day – he finally did our whole long Leland circuit (I’ve been avoiding going through town with its thrown away food lurking) without me carrying him at all – the first time since his hospitalization.
-- Perry
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