rose: we went to the open house bbq at éamon's school tonight. i was excited for brendan to see eamon's classroom and meet his teacher. i've been in his room briefly, so i was happy to take a closer look, and to chat with his teacher. we had a good time, and am glad to see éamon hitting it off with a boy who we met at the park a few weeks ago, and i'm acquainted with the parents because of that. all this to say, that i'm really grateful. i don't leave there feeling like it's anything other than a normal school, and considering we heard terrible things about it before he started, that pretty significant. every parent i've met there, only has positive things to say about it. it seems to me that the negative stories get circulated widely and without any context. it makes it seem like only terrible things happen there, when really, there's lots of good things too.

thorn: my right contact lens gave me grief for most of the day. for large chunks of time, i had to keep my eye closed completely. steve kept laughing at me. i'm sure it was hard to take me seriously. my contacts give me trouble on only the rarest of occasions, but when they do, it's impossible to operate normally.