Just a quiet day. I drove with Paul for his quick dentist appointment. While he was having a small cavity filled, I drove over to nearby Barnes and Noble to get a book I need to read for the AP Workshop I'm taking in July. I felt as though I'd barely gotten into the heavenly rows of books when he called and said he was finished. I was having such fun browsing up and down the rows. To me, entering a bookstore is like walking through Paradise. I fall into a joyous trance. On the way home, we stopped at Food Lion for the lastest important missing item, this time carpet cleaner (Pete had a bad night), and I ran into a young teacher I had known at Groves, who did not return after maternity leave in the spring of 2008. She said she didn't come back partly because of the baby but also because she was sick and tired of the administration there. A ninth grade student had threatened her with bodily harm when she was very pregnant; she'd reported him, and all he got a few days off from school and was back again. At Richmond Hill, he would have received a one-way ticket out the door, case closed.
Paul and I drove home, and then I went to the gym for 45 minutes. I've spent the rest of the afternoon chit-chatting with Shawn in the living room, while watching Suze Orman scold people on Oprah and sorting through my piles of school papers. He's very psyched up for the Army and is waiting for the background check which should be back on Monday.
Liberto called on his way home from work, and sounds very unstressed out. Those four days on jury duty was just the vacation he needed. The doctors were exonerated, by the way, so the widow lost the case. L. felt bad about that, but had to follow the letter of the law.
Tomorrow night, we're going out for dinner with Terry and Mark in Statesboro and then spending the night at their house.
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