Thor's Day

Administration
Happy birthday to joemorf!

Hello to new readers blaquelife, marnanel, and thanos73!

Medical
Pain moderate. Sleep disturbances suck; I was up at 3 AM for the second night in a row. *sigh*

Library Like Whoa!
Elayna and I went to get our library cards yesterday - wow! The town library is gorgeous. Enormous. Brand spankin' new. We walked through the doors and Elayna gasped. Such a change from the crappy little libraries in Atlanta! She disappeared into the huge children's room as I got our cards... the librarians loved watching her explore. :) They didn't have the books she was particularly looking for, so she reserved them. Me, on the other hand - oh yeah. They had books I was looking for. :) I grabbed a bunch of stuff that's been lingering on my wishlist forever, and pretty much cleaned out the fibromyalgia section - was tempted to hunt for more stuff, but Elayna and I were already overburdened, so I reluctantly checked out. We will be back. Oh yes.

Rhodium
Elayna's first school project: Adopt an element. She was assigned rhodium. She's going to be doing her own research, no worries, but I know that a bunch of you are scientists and/or science geeks, so - anyone have any fun and interesting facts about rhodium?

Daily Science
A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury.

Daily BPAL
( Obatala, Ogun, Osun )

School

"This school is *so* much better than [Atlanta middle school]!"

I was so glad to hear that. It relaxed bits of me I wasn't consciously aware were tense.

Mental note: Make appointment for parent-teacher conference in a few weeks, to get an idea of her progress. She bumped into friends yesterday at the library, so I'm confident that she's adjusting socially, but I know that there are some areas where there'll be an academic adjustment - the math class here is slightly farther along than the one back in Atlanta, but the teacher is very aware of this; she responded to Elayna leaving the final question on the test she took on her first day blank with a written "It's okay, I'll work with you on this." It is realized and acknowledged that Elayna hasn't had trouble learning these things, it's just that she hadn't been presented with them yet. She got every other question correct, which helps. :)

And last night, she asked us to not check over her homework. Reason? "My teacher has to see what I'm getting wrong, what I'm not understanding, so we know what I need to work on."

Well, that's eminently logical.

She's doing okay, my kid.

And now I have to bring her forgotten lunch to school. Some things never change!