Big Footprint Is Today's News: As Big as Size 13 Saddle Shoes!

I remember seeing Carol, Kelly, Elana, and Terrell ride their bikes to school from their homes in Hancock Park. By contrast, in 10th and 11th grade, I drove in from Manhattan Beach. With Nina Ristani riding shotgun. Jackie drove from Pasadena, and I think Alice came from Whittier. Kathy Shank came from 4th Street in Santa Monica, and Nancy drove from Encino in her huge wood-paneled station wagon that took up 2 parking spaces.

Then, as today, we had a large footprint, and some of us were well on our way to getting the 10,000 hours needed to become an outlier behind the wheel of a car (if Malcolm Gladwell's theory is correct). Carol's still not a great driver (but she's a maven on a bicycle!).

I was reading the new issue of the UltraViolet and it looks like the student footprint is still grand. Check it out: http://www.thenewultraviolet.com/2009/11/student-footprint-now-stretches-from-east-valley-to-south-bay/

No, I Don’t Think It’s the Swine; Perhaps It’s Just My High-School Whine!

I’m not complaining, just reporting. 

So it hit me full-on this week: the difference between being a high-schooler and going back to high school as a full-fledged adult. My whole family came down with the flu, but it was uniquely choreographed so that each time one would be on the mend, another would go down. Like viral-bacterial-ballet-dominoes. Beautiful.
 

And the thing that I realized is that when I was sick in high school, my mom took care of me. And, yes, I had oodles of make-up work, and it mounted every day I was out; but I didn’t have bills to pay, forms to fill out, and I didn’t have to call in sick for myself. I didn’t have to drive myself, or my husband, or my kids to the doctor, and I didn’t have to make sure my blog was current.

So there you have it. I’m not saying that being a kid is easy, believe me (and don’t you try to change me back into one, Mr. Houdini!). But it would be nice, while I’m trying to study, if someone would make me dinner.

I’m just saying.