Killing Time

Just for funsies, here is a picture of Wm wearing a tiny hat in Target:

I say, Peabody, that is a smashing notion!

Also, this made the whole family laugh because it's Schroeder's inner monologue all the time:

This is pretty much a wasteland of boring days. All the students are gone and work is a game of "how do I kill 8 hours?" Next week the craziness begins again and the game switches to "how do I get this done in 8 hours?" Steve is, as always, a busy little bee at work. He is plotting a new office rehab and move of the entire Soccer First clan. He's pretty excited because he is stuffing all his minions into tiny cubes and he gets the deluxe office space. He keeps having weird cubicle people come out and give him estimates on his plans - who knew there were cubicle people?

Wm is suuuuuper excited for summer. He has the countdown on how many school days he has left. He told me the AC was broken at school and they had the heat still on so it was crazy hot. I saw on the PTA Facebook page that one kid went home with heat stroke. Wm said all the kids were sick and feeling awful from the heat. So I freaked out and was all, "you don't have to go to school if they are heating you when it's 87 degrees outside!" Then I get a robo-call from the school. The heat is not on. The AC is just not working while they wait on a part. So all the little delicate flowers are just having the school experience that EVERYONE over the age of 30 had. Yeah…it's hot. Get a drink and make a little fan out of notebook paper like the rest of us did.  Wm was munching on gum when he got home from school yesterday. I asked him where he got it and he goes, "the teacher said anyone who stopped complaining about how hot it was got gum!" Clearly she had had enough! Ha!

Wm is currently working on a report on Oxley Hall at OSU for his last big school project (they are doing "The Wonders of Ohio"). He has to research all about its history and create a PowerPoint presentation all about it. He was having trouble finding much info about it, so I suggested he email the OSU Library and ask a librarian for ideas where to look. His little email to the Library was adorable. Apparently the librarian who got it also thought so, because they sent him back a 30 page pdf filled with articles and information on Oxley Hall. Research: COMPLETE. Next on the agenda: Wm is going to go to Oxley Hall and give a tour while I videotape him and then he is going to put that into his presentation. He is using Prezi, which is pretty snazzy. I told him to watch the tutorial on how to use it and then create a presentation on anything he wanted to show me that he knew how to use it. 30 minutes later I go up and am treated to "Why Playing Minecraft is Better than Homework or Doing Chores." It was actually a very well done presentation! And Wm LOVES the action of Prezi over PowerPoint. Prezi is all about motion…just like Wm.