As I was walking home tonight, the rains finally started a bit, but so far, nothing very impressive. I may regret that word "impressive" if our weather turns horrible, since I have no real way to get to work without being soaked. I do not have a raincoat and only a small umbrella that perpetually appears to be about to fly away in the wind.
If it gets reallly stormy maybe I will work from home until a let-up occurs.
Today, also, public school started back up in SF, so it was Julia's first day back at her inner city charter after a semester at Oxbow. When I texted her she said it went "fine" today.
Then her report card arrived and I read what her teachers and she herself wrote about her growth at the fall program. What her teachers wrote is very satisfying for a parent to read, and while I know that is probably an objective for a private school, it also was genuine in a way any experienced editor can recognize. We become pretty good at smoking out what is not genuine.
They all clearly like and respect Julia very much, her work ethic, her artistic talents, her intellectual growth and her willingness to push herself in the realm she finds the most challenging -- in her social life.
She said in her self-evaluation she feels ready to handle Gateway now. I hope so. No one wants his or her child to struggle socially; being a teen is already hard enough. But with an exceptionally high GPA and good initial indications that she will test well, my hope is that my youngest will be able to attend the college of her choosing.
And Oxbow may well have helped her figure that out.
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