Mar. 14th, 2021

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1. Emma got a scholarship offer from GA Southern! It's a one time 4600 scholarship, but I am so excited! She will get free tuition with the Zel Miller state program, she's already got one year under her belt doing dual enrolled + AP, and she's getting a year paid for by my parents/grandparents who put money aside for that when she was a baby, so I am feeling a lot better about the prospect of paying for college. I don't know that she'll end up going to GA Southern, but I was starting to worry that she wouldn't be offered any institution-specific scholarships, so this encourages me that perhaps the other schools where she's been accepted will also offer her something. *crosses fingers*

2. The migraine is gone! Hurray!

3. Since it is now 80 degrees here *cries* I have painted my toenails in fun glitter and will be wearing open toed shoes for the foreseeable future.

4. My cabinet from Wayfair arrived. I am so happy to have my desk finally organized and all my stationery and office supplies put away neatly.

5.

Animals Can Be Almost HumanAnimals Can Be Almost Human by Alma E. Guinness

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It took us almost four months to read this, and the kiddo and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was given this compilation of animal stories that had been featured in Reader's Digest in the 80s and really enjoyed it as a kid.

Rereading as an adult, I noticed a fair amount of casual racism in the stories that feature characters of color or are set in places outside the Western world that I did not pick up on as a kid. I tried to modify and/or contextualize that for the kiddo as I was reading. I also had forgotten how sad a lot of these stories are (with a lot of them ending in animal death). Those two things kept this volume from being a five star read for me.



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