Childish Booksmart Friend spent the night here in the City while her parents went to a wedding she wasn't invited to.
She came bearing a box of her mother's cookies. Childish Booksmart Friend's mother is, without contest, the best baker of cookies on the planet. She has about a hundred different recipes, and all of them are delicious and decadent (not to mention surprisingly healthier than most baked goods due to a complicated bit of culinary magic involving cocoa powder and applesauce).
For the first three hours she was there, we talked about school and the future, and ended up working online practice problems of the Complicated Graduate School Entrance Exam because we had heard from older students it was fiendishly difficult, more so than Money-Sucking Standardized Test Corporation's College Entrance Exam (which was on the whole somewhat of a laugh). After deciding that we needed to spend a bit more time on freerice.com to improve our vocabulary for the analogy and antonyms section, we read several of the philosophy prompts, which were quite interesting, and debated the argumentation section, which was a breeze after the extensive training we'd received from Twain-Obsessed Teacher. We moved on to the logic and reasoning section, which was easier than expected because the problems weren't exactly mathematical problems, they were logical brainteasers of the kind you might actually encounter in real life and sometimes find in the back of the newspaper next to the crosswords section. The verdict: there is nothing to worry overly much about, but it would be a good idea to work on not making stupid mistakes and thinking soundly every step of the way.
We had dinner with Internet-Savvy Friend at Mothers' Day Restaurant, then went back to the apartment, where we fooled around on YouTube for a while, then talked until late in the night (or early in the morning). A typical night, quoi.
This morning, her parents took us both back to Mothers' Day Restaurant (where we had had lunch with a combination of parents and children for an early Mothers' Day a couple of months ago) for a Fathers' Day Brunch. I think of Childish Booksmart Friend's parents a bit as my "second parents" because of all the time and care and attention they brought to me when my real parents were a bit lacking in that respect. They are truly wonderful people.
Now, I am listening to Toccata & Fugue in d minor, an old favorite of mine, one in a list of thousands of songs I am listening to today in the background in celebration of the Fête de la Musique and the summer solstice.
Enjoy the day and remember to make a wish before midnight!
She came bearing a box of her mother's cookies. Childish Booksmart Friend's mother is, without contest, the best baker of cookies on the planet. She has about a hundred different recipes, and all of them are delicious and decadent (not to mention surprisingly healthier than most baked goods due to a complicated bit of culinary magic involving cocoa powder and applesauce).
For the first three hours she was there, we talked about school and the future, and ended up working online practice problems of the Complicated Graduate School Entrance Exam because we had heard from older students it was fiendishly difficult, more so than Money-Sucking Standardized Test Corporation's College Entrance Exam (which was on the whole somewhat of a laugh). After deciding that we needed to spend a bit more time on freerice.com to improve our vocabulary for the analogy and antonyms section, we read several of the philosophy prompts, which were quite interesting, and debated the argumentation section, which was a breeze after the extensive training we'd received from Twain-Obsessed Teacher. We moved on to the logic and reasoning section, which was easier than expected because the problems weren't exactly mathematical problems, they were logical brainteasers of the kind you might actually encounter in real life and sometimes find in the back of the newspaper next to the crosswords section. The verdict: there is nothing to worry overly much about, but it would be a good idea to work on not making stupid mistakes and thinking soundly every step of the way.
We had dinner with Internet-Savvy Friend at Mothers' Day Restaurant, then went back to the apartment, where we fooled around on YouTube for a while, then talked until late in the night (or early in the morning). A typical night, quoi.
This morning, her parents took us both back to Mothers' Day Restaurant (where we had had lunch with a combination of parents and children for an early Mothers' Day a couple of months ago) for a Fathers' Day Brunch. I think of Childish Booksmart Friend's parents a bit as my "second parents" because of all the time and care and attention they brought to me when my real parents were a bit lacking in that respect. They are truly wonderful people.
Now, I am listening to Toccata & Fugue in d minor, an old favorite of mine, one in a list of thousands of songs I am listening to today in the background in celebration of the Fête de la Musique and the summer solstice.
Enjoy the day and remember to make a wish before midnight!
1 comment:
Sounds like an excellent day but I might give the puzzles a miss. But then I might just have a peek when time permits.
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