Just a quick post here from laptop land. Thus no pictures. Sniff.

On the way home from 826 Chi yesterday from Mail;
“You know what would be so cool? It might start a fire though.”

I tried to suppress my snort and my imagination! Turns out he was only imagining a hot air balloon made out of paper with torches and lighters and candles holding it aloft. Oh yeah. Almost as fun as last week when he described interplanetary travel possibilities based on using the planet’s magnetic fields and electromagnets. You might be thinking, oh, a kid who is always full of wise acre science tips. But no, he is just as likely to spend 15 minutes convincing me that I need to increase his allowance, or that he should be getting some headshots made up soon for his acting career to fully realize itself.

In daughter news, she’s been doing this Improv class which travels around town and does smaller version of Improv Everywhere type stuff. She is hooked. There is something about being twelve and needing to be absurd,creative, and thought provoking all at once.

Me, I learned how to sew by accident. I joined in this round robin of folks, all of us making grocery bags from extra fabric. Figured I could cut and iron, but after awhile I figured I could try a straight line, then I needed to learn how to pin things, then pivot, then fill a bobbin, then make a seam, then a French seam, then a box, then, well, then we had a bag. Thanks ladies for pausing frequently to explain and dig me out! We made about 12. Go see Nancy’s blog for pictures since I have no access to Picasa currently. What I loved about that experience was how organic it felt. I didn’t want to learn to sew, I just wanted a bag and when there were enough machines around I realized I couldn’t be that useless. I might be able to speed things up. Within 10 minutes of course I was hooked. It is the kind of learning adults do regularly once their formal education is over, interest driven. It is also the sort that kids so often get deprived of while they are off memorizing lists they’ve been assigned.