Days of Our Lives

It is my very real consideration that our lives these days reflect the kind of story arcs that you might see on Days of our Lives. Job arc: Arnie is safely and very happily, I might add, settled into a great 2-bedroom apartment with a working fireplace in Brentwood, TN. Living conditions are always better outside of the city which at its worst is like living in Deckensian London. But my comment is that after you enjoy the big rooms, sunlight and mod cons, you are still there not here. Ok, so I'm hopelessly parochial.

School arc: Kate is counting down the days to her test for the specialized high schools. let me say here again that finding a decent high school, public high school that is, in New York can be daunting to say the least. So we are just pawns moving through the mass of good citizens looking for the brass ring. Saturday is the day she takes the test for admission to one of the 8 specialized high schools. You can be a double slacker, ne'er do well, never even go to school and be chronically late but if you score in the high numbers, these schools will take you. forget charm, character, good will. Nothing counts but the numbers. I must add that Kate is really paying attention now and went to Brooklyn Tech last night which is now #1 on her list.

Health arc: I have graduated from wearing the awful orthopedic boot to real shoes. and one of my first outings was to buy shoes...OMG What fun. and then of course after I had this euphoric time with David, the very smoothest salesman from Harry's Shoes on Broadway, I realized that I need sneakers not exquisite slides...so then I had to go buy big white clunky sneakers. But oh so comfortable. I am a style statement about what not to wear.

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