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It was really nice having J and L visit us from Austin. Even though they were only with us for one night, as part of their east coast ramble, we got a LOT of talking in. I wish we had known them better in Austin - while we were good band friends, we didn't do any socializing together other than band stuff, and it turns out we have lots else in common.
J's dad was a college professor, and mine was, for 22 years, a high school teacher, and we talked about how different it is growing up with a teacher for a parent - how long it took to realize that other kids do not get taken to the opera, the theatre, the ballet, the symphony, or the art museum for weekends. Let alone taken to a whole 'nother city to see a museum one hasn't been to before, just because. Her dad taught classics (Latin, Greek, Old English) and mine taught Biology and Earth Science, so we both got treated to puns in Latin occasionally mixed in with the incessant puns in English at the dinner table during family dinners. We saw Shakespeare performances on a regular basis, and understood most of the jokes in them, too. The family radio was pretty much always tuned to the classical radio station. I know I was shocked when I got to college and discovered that there were people in my college classes who didn't know how to use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and LOTS of people who had never read a single piece of poetry that hadn't been assigned in school. Yep, teachers' kids get a different upbringing.
And J's birthday turns out to be the day before mine; I did not know that before. So I quickly made up a gift box of snack bag size samples of tea from 8 or 9 teas from our collection.
That was fun. I really hope we can get down to Austin for ASB's 25th anniversary party in April 2007!
J's dad was a college professor, and mine was, for 22 years, a high school teacher, and we talked about how different it is growing up with a teacher for a parent - how long it took to realize that other kids do not get taken to the opera, the theatre, the ballet, the symphony, or the art museum for weekends. Let alone taken to a whole 'nother city to see a museum one hasn't been to before, just because. Her dad taught classics (Latin, Greek, Old English) and mine taught Biology and Earth Science, so we both got treated to puns in Latin occasionally mixed in with the incessant puns in English at the dinner table during family dinners. We saw Shakespeare performances on a regular basis, and understood most of the jokes in them, too. The family radio was pretty much always tuned to the classical radio station. I know I was shocked when I got to college and discovered that there were people in my college classes who didn't know how to use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and LOTS of people who had never read a single piece of poetry that hadn't been assigned in school. Yep, teachers' kids get a different upbringing.
And J's birthday turns out to be the day before mine; I did not know that before. So I quickly made up a gift box of snack bag size samples of tea from 8 or 9 teas from our collection.
That was fun. I really hope we can get down to Austin for ASB's 25th anniversary party in April 2007!