Ehlana and Ethan:
When it is seventy degrees out for Tai Chi by the river – and not raining too; that automatically makes for an awesome start to our day! The highs for the day were in the low-eighties again too, which is why our school day was great too; and we followed that up with another round of biking and park adventure time with our friends through until dinnertime. We were on our own with Mom and Dad for another barbeque dinner; worked or studied in the office after that; and wrapped up our day with bath or Jacuzzi time after we all went to take Silkie for a bedtime walk at around nine o’clock. That’s pretty much all of the news for our personal adventures, but before we wrap this up and get some sleep; we want to add a minor Cassie and Michael update – even though their stories are available in their own journals.
You can get those details directly from their journals, but we were thinking about them a lot tonight – and talking about plans for the short time they’ll be home once they’re finished with finals exams two-weeks from this coming Friday. They’re currently busy with getting ready for final exams that will be starting two-weeks from yesterday, but Cassie is also extra-busy with her T.A. duties as the final projects, assignments, and tests are submitted and need to be graded and then passed along to the Professors she’s working with this year. Cassie is not, by the way, the most-loved T.A. at her college, but that isn’t because the freshman students don’t like her – they just don’t appreciate her impartial, fair, and always-accurate grading of their work. She also can’t be bribed, but then that’s more of a statement of the education system that there are so many people that believe that cheating is a profitable path to success on both sides of those kinds of deals.
We’ll be busy with our own school days for most of the time they’ll be home, but hope that we’ll get to spend time with them in the evenings and on weekends. While we talked about things that we could do with them; we should also mention some news that won’t be public knowledge until after they get home.
First and sure to be most-important to all local football fans; Michael and Tim have been quietly getting ready to play football for their college team in their senior year. They attended the open spring training days; have been working out and resumed weight training; and will be attending the summer training camp too. We can also report that they will make the team – a fact that they’ve been assured of by the coaches; and we have no doubt that they will be among the fastest pair of wide receivers in their school’s history.
Okay, they will be the fastest-ever, but they also won’t be able to show off just how fast they could be if they used their Magi talents – especially now that Michael can do time-phasing! ;^)
We’ll have more on that through the rest of the year, but the second part of this news story is that Cassie will be working as a T.A. for the team through the fall semester – and that is entirely so that she’ll be able to travel with Michael and the team as needed. That doesn’t entirely fit in with the start of her doctoral studies in Linguistics – unless you think that football players have a language of their own, but those trips will give her some useful opportunities to do research at other universities and possibly to work with other linguistics Professors and students.
Rowen isn’t sure whether she can do anything to be able to travel with Tim, but Cassie has suggested that even if Rowen needs to stay at school during the week; she’ll drive or fly to the road games and spend the weekends with him. She knows how important this chance to play college ball is to Tim, though; so they’ll work it out – and then Tim can make it up to her for any sacrifices she’ll need to make while helping that dream to come true for him.
Finally, those plans will likely mean less time for us with Cassie and Michael this summer and fall, but while Michael is doing this for his best friend; we’re also sure that the college football credentials will be good for his future career too – and not just because economists have such a bad reputation right now! We’ll deal with that too; and then hope for some extra time with them over the final year and a half of their college adventures.
Okay, that’s more than enough for today, and we are past-ready for some quality nap time; so, until next time...
...this is Ehlana and Ethan Proctor; live from the hidden home of the Magi of the Light – and May the Magi Force be with you!
