[Magdalen] First day of school.

[Jay Weigel]

Does Ev's school allow him to take community college courses concomitantly
with his high school courses? An awful lot of kids are doing that now.

On Wednesday, August 5, 2015, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> >>>Has he given any thought to what he wants to do after this?<<<
>
> Some.  But with no rush from me or his mother.  I worked pretty fast
> getting settled into gov't work right after college, but that was mainly in
> response to my mother's disappointment at my "wasting" my English degree.
> Add to that the pressure to "get a desk job, so you won't have to bust your
> ass like your father", and my future was more or less set, if not to happen
> swiftly necessarily, but it did anyway.  But no one in my family ever
> expected I'd end up in "water resources".
>
> Everett sees himself in some career involving computers generally and
> gaming particularly.  He's self-taught to the point of amazement to me.
> The things he does on, in, and with his computer, ... nowhere near my
> relatively static state of merely keeping my fingers crossed mine doesn't
> hit the skids.  He sees at least some community college, most likely sooner
> than later, and if the U.S. doesn't become the next Holland or Norway in
> terms of basically permanent liberal gov't (like I tell him it *could*
> become in his lifetime) relatively soon, he still insists he wants to
> ex-pat to Canada.  I tell him to wait till I'm a bit past ability to retire
> (just past the mark in June), and maybe I'll go with him.
>