Notes - coincidence / two six pack discs

         0953 hours. A tip of the ‘old’ black beret and a very happy birthday to my original Muse, Kym, a former student of mine back in the early eighties. “Happy Birthday, Kym.”

         Kym did inspire you and still does with her wonderfully innocent question, “What is love, Mr. Orndorff?” while she sat across you in the teacher shared office where she was your general aide during her otherwise assigned studyhall time. In those days you usually had students write an in class essay once a week. With over a hundred and twenty students that was a lot of grading. She (and other aides before and after) made sure those essays were in each student’s essay folder. You were required to have a writing sample from each student once a week. You thought of it dark humored as a kind of body count for higher administration who liked to spout the numbers and the authenticity of the magic student folder. Your side of the office (the other side was ‘owned’ by Miss B) was lined half way up the walls with tomb stone rubbings from a famous old Salem, Mass. cemetery – more humor from being buried alive with grading papers. You still have those rubbings hanging in your basement. – Amorella

         1012 hours. I left Indian Hill with the Class of 1984 twelve years after I began in 1972 after returning to the States from teaching British literature and chairing the Department of English at Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo while Carol taught third grade at the same private U.S. accredited school (which it still is) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1984 our daughter, Kim, was beginning first grade at Mason Local Schools and a job opportunity had opened at Mason High. After I signed a new contract with Mason I resigned from IH the last day before my contract would have been automatically renewed.

         Less money but also less driving plus the real benefit was that while Carol was still teaching at Sycamore Community Schools one of us would be on daughter Kim’s school schedule. I always got home before the elementary students and thus had more quality time with daughter and less of her time was spent at a local day care because Carol as an elementary teacher went to school an hour or so later than I did and I got home from school an hour to an hour and a half earlier than she did. The added joy was having her in the same high school (which she loved) and having her in my AP English class her senior year (her wish). Kim and now Paul and the boys are and have been a great part of our quality life. Who would have traded all that for more money?

         You began speaking of Kym and her birthday and ended up focusing on Kim your daughter – the shared name is a coincidence. Post. - Amorella

         Mid-evening. You have been out and about looking for a wreath Carol would like and found none. You did find two six disks of Blu Ray disks with the six Star Wars films. It was cheaper than buying a collector’s edition so you bought it. The next purchase will be the four Indiana Jones films in Blu Ray, after that you have no idea. When you came in Carol was talking to one of her sisters on the phone; she still is. Earlier you read a great Amazon review of the Blu Ray Star Wars Collection, quite detail from a fan who can also be objective. The review enticed you to once again consider the purchase. – Amorella

         2002 hours. Shoot, if I live long enough they will have the entire nine film series out in Blu Ray 3-D or whatever they use at that time. Hope the boys like both ‘old timers’ films when they are old enough. Growing up I liked the classical films of the thirties and forties, so did my parents and other like adults. We still like those early classics. My friend Bob did also; and he wrote some poems about those actors and actresses. I think one is in the books, or will be. I’m done for the night. 

         Post, orndorff. - Amorella