How can it be august?

It's not exactly a sleepy summer day in say Georgia but it is a relatively relaxed friday in the office. Most people didn't even bother to come in and the phones have been very quiet. We've just come off of 3 weeks of intense work and pressure to turn out more than 100 journalists to cover the launch of the Museum's new trendsetting, extraordinary, amazing -- anymore superlatives? -- hand held navigational device, the Explorer. Everything went off without a hitch and was considered by all a success. Lots of press, lots of hoopla and soon on to the next must do. But the day after is just a little down time. Makes you understand why rock stars take drugs to help them stay permanently up and on.

This week we plowed ahead with researching high schools for Kate and went to a seminar at Stuyvesant about large high schools, although not about stuyvesant exactly. The whole thing gives me the whim whams. how do I know whether kate would do better in a large school or a small school. Actually I think most people do better in smaller schools rather than these behemoths of 4,000 kids. If not, why do they split everything up into LC. all this jargon which in this case means learning communities. The education people are famous for this kind of junk. Have a reasonable class size of no more than 28 kids, find a teacher with personality who can teach and get on with it. However those two things seem to be impossible. I know it will all work out in the end, won't it?