Still Wasting Time

Well, for better or for worse, I am still here. If you can call it that. (Since I haven’t written much lately).

I am sick right now, so much so that I actually made an appointment and went into a doctors office yesterday instead of whining at my pediatrician husband to listen to my chest (and no, not in the fun way!). I had a good visit yesterday. I tried a new doctor in a new office (well, to me, anyway). I am still sick, but very encouraged. Maybe after I get rid of this current crud I can get my other levels adjusted and stop being so depressed and tired. I go back in 2 weeks.

A friend of mine from my bible study that has been weakening with cancer finally passed away last night. One of those bittersweet moments as you don’t want anyone to suffer like that, but you know how much she will be missed. She touched my heart and I am glad that during her last few weeks I was able to take time to visit with her as well as pray for her. I even got to take her a meal one night, and boy oh boy, you have no idea how rare that kind of gesture (cooking) is coming from me.

One last tidbit for today, even though that doesn’t in any way “catch up” with everything that is going on with me, but I have to write what I write and let that be enough and stop beating myself up over my incompleteness, especially in this silly diary. But on to the tidbit, which is a good thing.

I am not going to re-write this, but rather include an excerpt from the email letter that I wrote to my Mom this morning:

Thank goodness I skim the electronic school newsletter before deleting it. Look what I saw yesterday:

MATH NEWS – We have received the results of the American Mathematics Competition. [our high school] had 9 students qualify for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME) by achieving a score of 100 or higher on the AMC-12 exam. These students are *, *, *, *, MiddleSon, *, *, *, and *. Students qualifying for the AIME are considered to be among the top math students in the nation.

I asked MiddleSon about it. I guess he just wasn’t going to mention it to us. Of those 9 students, only MS and one other are juniors, the rest are seniors. I looked up the test on the website, and scoring 100 or better on this test qualifies them to take another, harder, test which MS is now signed up for. They already had to score at a certain level on another test to take this test. Of the people who take this test, only 3% score over 100 (out of 150) to qualify as MS did to go on to the next test. I asked why he didn’t tell us, and he said that he hadn’t even heard about it right away because he isn’t in math this semester, and it was mostly a buzz among the senior teachers anyway. So he kept getting told “congratulations” by seniors every time he walked into the band hall, but he had no idea why. I am happy, but also incredulous at his lack of curiosity/ initiative/ ???. He doesn’t want to think about college choices (after his stellar PSAT this fall, the brochures are pouring in every day), or summer job possibilities, or anything beyond his next xbox game with his friends. We are currently struggling to get him to bring home the school enrollment form he needs to renew his drivers’ license (from his Feb 15 birthday), and yesterday ended the more-than-a-month of nagging to get him to finally sign up for the SAT. Hmmmm…. he kind of reminds me of me! Oh, and you know, don’t you, that he has refused a haircut since last July. He’s still cute, though.