I’m still hopeful that this will be the last day for a while
where football is at or near the top of the conversation list for the guys, but
most of the girls my age and older at school are now interested in one thing –
Valentine’s Day; that’s almost equally annoying to me; and will certainly be
the top story for the next two weeks.
I wonder if our parents would let Rowen and I go to Australia
and spend that time with Grandma and Grandpa instead? Probably not.
Today would have been another good one to take off from
school – or to at the very least keep my mouth shut during all non-educational
activities. While it hasn’t been a big
problem in the past, correcting boys on Super Bowl game statistics just because
you can is apparently a bad thing for me this year. Some of the guys were annoyed; others were
impressed; and the girlfriends of the boys in that second group were not happy
with me either. The worst of that
happened at lunchtime when one of my comments led to a rapid-fire mini test of
my football knowledge that Tim, Michael, and a couple of the other guys in our
class threw at me. Aunt Leanne’s love of
winning must be rubbing off on me, because I could have fudged an answer or
two; but didn’t. Then again, it was a
test, and I’ve never fudged answers on them in any of my classes either.
Whether my response was nature or recent nurture doesn’t
really matter. The results were that I
earned bonus rep points with some of the guys; lost them with the rest; and
made things worse for myself with the girls I least needed to do that
with. Rowen and a couple of other girls
thought the whole scene was very entertaining – especially outdueling all of
the boys on the football trivia. I’m
glad I could help make the day more fun for them, but still should have just
kept my mouth shut instead.
Since we didn’t really want to have anything like that
happen again today, and weren’t interested in being around for any girl chats
that would be all about Valentine’s Day, the school dance, and boys; Rowen and
I decided to spend our after-school play time in my room instead of going to
the park or doing something else outside.
We did our homework; had a music practice; played with Ethan and Ehlana
for a while; and our own girl chat time did not include anything about football
or Valentine’s Day.
After the gang we had over yesterday, it seemed very quiet
here tonight, but I’ve been busy too.
After cleaning up from dinner, we all had some play time together before
Dad got to work in the office; Mom did a long Magi lesson with me; Ethan and
Ehlana’s bedtime routine kept us busy for an hour or so; and I’ve been in my
room working on my studies and nightly computing since then. Mandy and I talked for a while at first, but
she’s been sleeping for a couple of hours now; and even Mom and Dad are
sleeping – though they weren’t when they first went to bed.
No, let’s definitely not go there.
I didn’t completely catch up on the leftover work from last
night, but finished enough of it that I should be back on my little internal
study schedule again in another couple of days.
Mom gave me a fairly heavy archive assignment, but I also have more time
to get through it; so that won’t be a problem.
News around the world is often a bit depressing, and I don’t want to go
there tonight either; but I should probably do a Magi Master kid’s perspective
sometime soon. I am very glad that my
future won’t revolve around any level of politics; though since I will be
working for an international family business, completely avoiding politicians
and bureaucrats won’t be possible. I
can’t even avoid that now even when my family business jobs are essentially
anonymous.
There’s always more to do, but it’s late; I’m tired; and I’m
ready to call it a night, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
