Um, yikes?
May. 10th, 2007 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowangolightlyWhy is it that Student Day at OKRF always sneaks up on me? I knew about this, reminded myself about it several times and yet this morning when Bruce said, "You know we've gotta get up earlier tomorrow morning 'cause morning meeting's at 8am, right?" that my heart skipped a beat.
Holy cripes! I'd planned on sewing peacefully all day, well, after I went out and planted the sweet potatoes that we bought last night at WallyWorld. Whoops! Today is really my "friday" and I make an airport run tonight to pick up Brother William, so I'd better get running...I have stuff to prepare and food to get ready for the weekend. And maybe get a little bit of sewing done; gods, I hope it doesn't rain!
You know, I think it's the fact that I don't dread Student Days at OKRF the way I do at KCRF, where we call 'em "Little Thieves Day." Jeff and Karen do such a fabulous job of setting expectations right up front with the schools as to their students' behavior that there is traditionally very little problem at all. The kids know that if anybody screws up and steals stuff, they endanger everybody's privilege to come to faire at all. Yes, some things have been taken but usually they get caught and it's taken care of immediately; the kids all get to see what happens and how serious the consequences can be. I have a great deal of respect for the way the Castle handles Student Days; it can help some kids change their lives rather than exascerbate the problems that exist. But then, Jeff has always been about education anyway.
Now sure, the kids in groups have the attention span of gnats on crack but that's to be expected. At least most of them are fairly polite, even if they are loud and abrasive; hello, they're school kids in their own peer groups! But it's nothing like how I dread Kids' Days at other faires, nothing at all.
And then we are done early; no problem. But it is one day less of work for me this week. NO sewing did I get done this week....aarrrrgggh!
Oh, and BTW, as it's been reported elsewhere, if you did that LJ mojo meme around April 11-14, you may wanna go back and delete it since what is there now is an extremely repulsive NWF image. Yes, I looked. But then, that's what we get for taking all these memes and trusting that they're safe, right?
Holy cripes! I'd planned on sewing peacefully all day, well, after I went out and planted the sweet potatoes that we bought last night at WallyWorld. Whoops! Today is really my "friday" and I make an airport run tonight to pick up Brother William, so I'd better get running...I have stuff to prepare and food to get ready for the weekend. And maybe get a little bit of sewing done; gods, I hope it doesn't rain!
You know, I think it's the fact that I don't dread Student Days at OKRF the way I do at KCRF, where we call 'em "Little Thieves Day." Jeff and Karen do such a fabulous job of setting expectations right up front with the schools as to their students' behavior that there is traditionally very little problem at all. The kids know that if anybody screws up and steals stuff, they endanger everybody's privilege to come to faire at all. Yes, some things have been taken but usually they get caught and it's taken care of immediately; the kids all get to see what happens and how serious the consequences can be. I have a great deal of respect for the way the Castle handles Student Days; it can help some kids change their lives rather than exascerbate the problems that exist. But then, Jeff has always been about education anyway.
Now sure, the kids in groups have the attention span of gnats on crack but that's to be expected. At least most of them are fairly polite, even if they are loud and abrasive; hello, they're school kids in their own peer groups! But it's nothing like how I dread Kids' Days at other faires, nothing at all.
And then we are done early; no problem. But it is one day less of work for me this week. NO sewing did I get done this week....aarrrrgggh!
Oh, and BTW, as it's been reported elsewhere, if you did that LJ mojo meme around April 11-14, you may wanna go back and delete it since what is there now is an extremely repulsive NWF image. Yes, I looked. But then, that's what we get for taking all these memes and trusting that they're safe, right?
