Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
He’s our son.
We received a letter last week that our son would receive a Major Award at the all-school assembly today. I joked with him that it would probably be a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg. Suspect it was just a slip of paper, though.
Two slips, as it turned out: he got the academic award for Honors Physics and Honors Spanish from last year. Only kid in each class to get it. And wouldn’t you know it? He’s a little peeved he didn’t get the award for Math Analysis.
In PE yesterday, they played football. “It was more fun than usual,” he told me when I picked him up from school. “More running around and passing, not as much blocking. But it was a funny thing.”
“What was?”
“At one point, they passed it to me. I instinctively ducked.”
He’s our son.
D.
Congrats; both will look good on his brag sheet. [: Interesting that they recognize this at the beginning of the year; why not at the end?
Way to go Jake! How wonderful!
It’s at the beginning of the year because it awards the sum total of everything in the previous school year.
Also I never said that football was fun, I merely said that it looked like I wouldn’t get crushed bones if I tried to block someone.
In fact all I really did was help block the guy who goes after the guy who first throws the football (notice I do not know the term for this, shows what I know about football).
All that said you can’t help but smile if your team is winning, even if you barely help. In that way I guess it was fun.
Also, it’s impossible to go out into the football field without seeing multiple dragon flies. Bakersfield actually has a lot of them, which is about the only plus in terms of environment it has over Brookings or Crescent City.
I almost brought you home a dead dragonfly on Tuesday. But it wasn’t quite dead yet, so I thought I would let it twitch outside so that it could fly off, if possible. Perhaps it was having a bad dream.