Coffee girls were back today, and that made everything better. Only Irene is still on vacation, till Thursday...and then Ev leaves on Friday...and oh yeah, I go away on Saturday... Well, this is summer vacation and we will all be in and out for the duration. I am happy, though, that there will be SOME time for us to get together.
Bonnie got a big packet from Colgate today, so I called her and asked if she wanted her mom to come and have lunch with her. (Of course, she did!) She works as a receptionist at a law office and she has a whole hour off. She brings her lunch everyday (she says she is too cheap to want to spend her own money on lunch) and marvels that everybody else eats out EVERY day.
We found a little restaurant (replete with Betty Boop-themed artifacts) and both ordered the same thing. She had gotten all the materials for her fall semester class selection and was ooh-ing and aah-ing over the different courses she could take. For freshman seminar, she is interested in a 'theories of Atlantis' class (just what I would have picked, too). She said that she would like to take trap-shooting for PE...she really wants to learn how to handle a gun and she sees this as her opportunity...but she is afraid that other kids interested in learning trapshooting would be conservative rich Republicans (and all that during the election season, too) and she wants to meet kids more like her. Where does she get these ideas? (Of course, she may be right!) She also said it was ironic that she is interested in this at all, since she is so pro-gun-control. She doesn't try to explain this apparent dichotomy of belief and wanting, and I love that about her.
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