Saturday, February 21, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Weekend Diary
Got up yesterday morning and drove Julia to the place where she gets her hair cut. It was really more of a trim and it cost $25. Since she got her hair dyed recently, it is still mainly red.
Later in the day, I went back over to Bernal and drove her to her friend's house for an overnight birthday party.
This morning I picked her up from the same place and this afternoon I drove to the grocery market and bought us supplies and food. She helped me unpack the food and put it in the refrigerator.
Mundane?
These are the mundane details of an everyday life.
She has finished with her homework and is now watching TV shows and doing some drawing. She's applied to a boarding school that specializes in the arts. It's in Napa. If she gets in, and we can afford it, she will move there next fall.
I spent last Sunday and also this past Friday filling out the financial aid forms for that school. To do that, I had to enter all sorts of personal information that felt invasive.
I hate our tax system, it is so biased against those of us in the middle or lower ends of the tax brackets.
Unbridled capitalism leads to one percent being obscenely rich and the rest of us under constant stress and struggling to make ends meet.
If my daughter gets admitted to that school, which she will no doubt be, because she is brilliant (3.95 GPA) and artistic, she will be a dream student for the administrators.
But unless they give us substantial financial aid, she will not be able to go.
We do not have $20,000 to send her there. But I do have a fraction of that.
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Later in the day, I went back over to Bernal and drove her to her friend's house for an overnight birthday party.
This morning I picked her up from the same place and this afternoon I drove to the grocery market and bought us supplies and food. She helped me unpack the food and put it in the refrigerator.
Mundane?
These are the mundane details of an everyday life.
She has finished with her homework and is now watching TV shows and doing some drawing. She's applied to a boarding school that specializes in the arts. It's in Napa. If she gets in, and we can afford it, she will move there next fall.
I spent last Sunday and also this past Friday filling out the financial aid forms for that school. To do that, I had to enter all sorts of personal information that felt invasive.
I hate our tax system, it is so biased against those of us in the middle or lower ends of the tax brackets.
Unbridled capitalism leads to one percent being obscenely rich and the rest of us under constant stress and struggling to make ends meet.
If my daughter gets admitted to that school, which she will no doubt be, because she is brilliant (3.95 GPA) and artistic, she will be a dream student for the administrators.
But unless they give us substantial financial aid, she will not be able to go.
We do not have $20,000 to send her there. But I do have a fraction of that.
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