oh, well.

I just got an email from the friendly people at the Breast Cancer 3-Day. As it turns out, they won't be coming back to Kansas City in 2007. So you can stop asking me if I'll be doing it again next year. The answer is no. (sigh) Still, it looks like a pretty awesome line-up of cities and dates, so if you're not from the KC area, perhaps the Pink Storm will sweep you up elsewhere. I *do* have some nifty pictures, so I'll get those uploaded for your viewing pleasure Any Day Now. :)

Boston, August 3-5, 2007
Chicago, August 10-12, 2007
Cleveland, August 17-19, 2007
Twin Cities, August 24-26, 2007
Seattle, September 7-9, 2007
Michigan, September 28-30, 2007
Philadelphia, October 5-7, 2007
Atlanta, October 12-14, 2007
Tampa Bay, October 19-21, 2007
Dallas/Ft. Worth, October 26-28, 2007
Arizona, November 2-4, 2007
San Diego, November 9-11, 2007

not exactly high-functioning

I'm finishing my Kindergarten homework. And, truth be told, I'm having kind of a hard time with it. See, I'm not the kind of parent who enjoys things like going to read to the kids or chaperoning a field trip or organizing a party. These are all worthy and loving endeavors, but I know they mostly ain't my thang. Children in groups make me very nervous, for one thing.

So, when the note came home from Princess !Kaboom's teacher to please let her know what sort of volunteering we'd be comfortable with, I offered to do some prep work. You know, cutting things out...stuff like that. What came home was a bundle of papers with letters and words and pictures -- the first step in making some flash cards, I imagine. We were supposed to take one of these tiny, round sticker below each letter and word. Any sticker from the booklet. Just put it under all the letters and all the words. Kthx.

What? !?!? It was a baffling little task, a small piece of some larger task that I didn't understand. I did about half of it last night, wary of the possibility that I maybe didn't read the instructions properly and heaven forbid I wasted this teacher's resources and so on. Imagine. Me, waiting for a note from the teacher to tell me if I was doing my activity correcly.

::headdesk:: As it turns out, I was doing it fine after all. Finishing it up tonight.

Also, in further adventures in competency (NOT): I experienced a stunning failure to run this evening. After nearly talking myself out of it several times this afternoon, I got my running gear and stood in the bathroom at work, looking at what I'd packed. Two left shoes. Crap.