If genes have anything to do with intelligence, my kids are doomed to have it. My IQ is plenty high, I'm sure W's is too. Her brother makes me look stupid. (Well, maybe not, but you get the idea.) I think W hid her intelligence, or perhaps was socially directed to hide it, as a girl. She had/has some dyslexia issues that held her back through a lot of elementary school, and probably got her pigeon-holed a bit. But, anyway, the kids are plenty smart! W went to conferences for both kids last week, we'll see if anything actually happens. I sympathize with the teachers, to a degree, but I know that the end result is that the bright kids don't go nearly as far as they could. (Speaking from experience.) Instead, I think they learn how to be lazy, and beat the system, in the end. That was S19's method, anyway.
I don't know what W's family knows. I mean, they have to know something, but I have no idea what they have figured out, or what she has told them.
Talked to S20 for a few minutes on the phone this morning. It sounds like they are getting really antsy to come home! He says they should be here on the 10th of October, but I'll believe it when I see it! But, it should be soon, in any case.
I have a bagful of trash to gather together in here. There was a bag under the bed that had been extracted from the junk drawer a year or more ago. I decided that it can all go, with very few exceptions. I know, I will want a cup hook, or something like that next week, but I think it is better to get rid of it! Then I'm going to gather what is on the "desk, and put it on the bed to sort into keep and file piles. A lot of it is tax and medical insurance stuff, so it needs to get kept, but it doesn't need to be on the desk! Then I think I'll be close to being able to switch the desk and bed around, which will be a big change! So, it is going a little more slowly than it should (I did chase a white ball around outside again today, white unsuccessfully), but it is going. Soon the price of golf will go up, and I won't go as much. So, I don't feel too bad about that, except for my ineptitude!
I think I do need to plan something for next weekend. I'm such a social caterpillar (as far from a butterfly as you can get) that it is a challenge for me. Though, I suppose I could dress nicely to go get some new clothes! (That's for you, Jen!)
