Another week gone, another night alone.

Hello computer. Thanks for waiting for me to find the time to come visit again. I know I'm not a great consistent friend. But hey, neither are you, so I guess that's why our chemistry works.

So Larry's working again. This residency thing puts a bit of a damper on the hours we actually see each other.  But we're almost 1/2 through. Or so I keep telling myself.

In other news the across the street family FINALLY left. New people moving in do not have kids, but as I figure no kids is better than bad kids. They seem nice enough.

I think we have gone 1 whole week without a hiccup in Joey's class and home work. Of course if this is going like last semester, I'll get a whole pile of failing papers in 6 weeks with the previous 6 weeks worth of work on the day of report cards so this could be a false positive report.  If she does that again, please feel free to unplug my computer and take away my car keys, because I cannot be responsible for my words and/or bridges I blow up in that case. I'm pretty sure this is the first year she's teaching 4th. I bet she was a Jr high teacher before. Her background hasn't exactly been clear other than she's married to a principle in our sister school district and that she had taught before. Details. I bet google could help me.

Sonia of course has forgotten her homework this week. But this is Sonia we're talking about. Because getting her to get it done in a timely and un-distracted and non-doodling manner I've started waking her up in the am to finish what isn't done before bed.  Jury's out on if this is a brilliant logical parenting move or an idiotic one. But she's my night owl and hates. HATES to wake up in the AM, much less at 5:45 when I am getting up. But there are far fewer distractions for her at 5:45 and her brain is at least 1/2 asleep, so I'm guessing some of the squirrels jumping around her brain are dormant so she get it done and goes back to bed if done fast enough. The part that I'm probably an idiot parent is that a tired Sonia is like a PMS screaming banshee 80% of her waking hours at home. But the logical parent says 'well, maybe she'll just learn so we don't have to go through this too many times' Tomorrow will be morning #4 since I hatched this plan that she will be getting up with me.

Kayla makes everything look easy. And would be a perfect child if she didn't cry over every hang nail and name she's called. Today (because I think she and Sonia were keeping each other up far too late last night) she was even crying at what she thought they were going to say or do to her. "he almost hit me or he almost called me stupid" Seriously. What I didn't gain in patience dealing with Sonia and getting her homework done I'm trying to find in dealing with a histrionic 7 year old 1/2 Cuban girl. I think it's a dominant Cuban gene she's expressing. Glitter, sparkles, and hystrionics. It's there, on the back of the X chromosone, written in glitter glue.

JM. Or, Jon as his teacher thinks he is. Will go to college on a sports scholarship or not at all. Of course this is kindergarten, but since he's in a K/1 class he seems to be not the smartest kid since he isn't reading. Which isn't as big a deal as the fact that he has NO interest in reading. At all. Not with computer games, not with me, not with the teacher. Nope. You cannot make him read or try to read when he doesn't want to. Which is 90% of the time.  And he's all about wrestling, sports and tackling, so football I think would be a wise career choice for him. Minus the head injuries. I assume that's the offensive team that gets those. I'm hoping the defensive side is the ones giving the head injuries and with JM's size and love of tacking siblings, dogs, and anything else that might not appreciate being tackled, I'm thinking defense is his talent.

Other than that, I've been in family medicine again. And I have an idea for a clinical study on quality of care and patient satisfaction with the implementation of EHRs. Not that I think I can change that we've all moved to them, but I have an alternative more human intensive idea to the way we practice now. Of course I'll need a grant and once published probably need to look for another job. MY hidden talent which my parents should have steered me to is bridge demolition. I blow up bridges spectacularly. Doubly so if I'm on them. Bet the pay is good and the autonomy is better.

Heading to craigslist to look for 'part time figurative bridge demolitions specialist position'
Hey would you know, there aren't any openings? Bummer.