Weekend news

Vincent actually did some laundry and mowed the lawn. Vincent and Jessi had a sort of first date at the St. Matthews Mall, but Stephanie and I were also there. While we were talking with our new church friends Johanna and Laura, we noticed a new Halloween store going up there and pointed out a Help wanted sign to Vincent. Five minutes later he came back with a job starting at 10 a.m. (until 6 p.m.?) Monday, for $7.25 an hour, though November 1, if it works out. He’ll have to take a 9:40 a.m. bus and bring copies of his ID and social security card. Initially, he’ll be doing stock work, as they set up. Our friends said they’d been praying for him, and apparently that worked out.

Jessi and Vincent came by the house afterwards and we ended up playing Kill Dr. Lucky, a board game that inverts the board game Clue (you’re supposed to kill Dr. Lucky). I don’t know if there was any romantic part of their date. Remember Vincent is on house arrest until he finishes his two on-line classes. We’ll see how he does if he’s working eight hours a day. He’s going to have to reschedule counseling appointments.

Stephanie proposed a schedule to her principal that took her most of the week to think of. It involves her not seeing some of more English skilled students (but having her colleague Lourdes dropping in with them) and asking one classroom teacher to change her schedule. Stephanie will be prepared to implement the new Scholastic reading program with that schedule, but she doesn’t have the materials or the final training yet, and so that will wait. She may see students for the first time Monday.

I finished another version of a report for the Cincinnati presbytery that’s due Monday afternoon. Hopefully my colleagues won’t make too too many suggestions. I need to get back to Presbyterian Panel related projects. In some ways, the Cincinnati project is a holdover from my previous position.

After making a presentation about ACT scores this past week, my mother is slated to make a presentation to colleagues about SAT scores. Usually, she has much more time to get ready for all of this. Mom skipped church Sunday morning. But when she got in to work, she discovered that a tropical storm was headed towards Tallahassee. They’d been watching to storms in the Atlantic, but suddenly Sunday morning Claudette was in the Gulf, with Weather Channel reports from our favorite beach, St. George Island, and from Apalachicola (where Stephanie’s principal and her family were on vacation last month). They mainly expect a lot of rain, which we in Louisville know something about. Hopefully, there will not be too much flooding, and there will be no storm surge and no bad damage to the dunes that protect the island. Apalachicola was one of the towns that appeared in the movie “Ulee’s Gold.”

-- Perry