As you’ve probably assumed, I got tattooed today. Nefarious and I headed downtown to where Shane’s shop is, walked around for a while and had a sandwich since it’s important to eat before a tattoo in my opinion, and then arrived a little after noon where we were greeted, to Nefarious’s delight, by his little-but-growing-rapidly baby. All the tattooing went well — it’s always a great pleasure, both because I like getting tattooed, and because Shane and I have been in this business together for so long (having both worked at Stainless, along with Caitlin as well, a decade and a half ago) that he’s practically family — with two major elements (attack robot and zombie officer — I’m sure some people will recognize the source artwork) having their preliminary placeholder-outlines put in place. [Holy run-on sentence!] Caitlin showed up about half way through and snapped this photo and then Caitlin, Nefarious, and Jovanka went out for dinner while Shane did some shading, and when we wrapped up I think it was — time really flies! — starting to approach six.
A couple close-up photos as well, and I’m thinking you don’t need help identifying the photographer due to the much lower height from which they were taken than Caitlin’s towering window into the world.
Then we read some Harry Potter (working on The Deathly Hallows now), ate some grapes, and got the bedtime process started a bit early. “A bit early” because last night ended up quite late. We’d intended to go to the drive-in, but aborted — to great sadness and tears — due to rain. Instead of going out, we had a home “sleep-over” movie night and Nefarious and I loaded up the couch (which is a big L-shaped sectional with tons of space) with pillows and blankets and watched Star Trek (the most recent movie, which I’m happy to say she greatly enjoyed) followed by the second Three Ninjas kids movie — arriving awake past midnight is still a thrilling accomplishment at age seven.
Tomorrow we’re beginning an experiment in home-schooling, using the month of August to give some hands on experience with the subject to explore the option more seriously. If it goes well, I will write on it in much more detail in the future. If it does not, well, then we never had this conversation, and I’ll trust you to erase the matter from your wetware memory and your software cache.
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Homeschooling is SO MUCH FUN! You’ll love it. Living books all the way including for math. Just don’t burn your house down doing a science experiment (like we did. We learned that olive oil is highly combustible.)
I never really had any schooling in August – certainly not when I was Junior-school age: it was always just the long summer holiday. That lasted right up until I was doing my O-Levels, when I went youth hostelling with the school one summer and the following year I had a fornight’s exchange visit with a German family.
I’m kind of spending this summer on tutoring my niece who’s about to start first grade this fall; she’s not always happy about having to work on school-related stuff but I’m trying to make it more fun and I’d like to believe she makes a steady progress. Sadly, I noticed that there are so much more American sources for kid activities available than Polish ones (maybe because most parents here prefer to rely heavily on school when it comes to teach their kids and homeschooling is still quite a novelty) but we’re using everything that seems good enough and a language isn’t a problem here.
Good luck with healing your new tattoo! It looks quite amazing.
Good luck on the homeschooling! I’m giving a talk on college options for homeschoolers later this month- I’ll see if there’s any sort of recording happening I can point you at.
Consider unschooling? Free range organic rearing? It’s much the same, just with less of a teacher role. You supply the materials and support, they grow accordingly.
Cant wait to see how the tattoo looks when done! Sometimes I think the outline looks better than the finished piece. Maybe thats just me!
have you considered putting the Lobster’s claw brand on one of those zombies?
that would be rad!
I’m amazed you have that much real-estate left!
I am personally more for unschooling, but I think homeschooling will still be very cool.
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