Homeschool on the move
Well, today should be interesting. I havbe a speech to give at Book People in Austin this evening. Not having a huge list of potential substitute teachers to pick from, I'm going to have to homeschool the kids on the way. As if Algebra wasn't already nauseating, we're adding motion sickness to the mix. Hmmm. Plus, the event is at 7:00 PM, so with my gimpy leg, I can't drive all the way back for 3 hours the same day, so we're staying overnight at a hotel. Then I have 6 (count em 6) radio phone interviews the next day: 9ish, 10ish, 11ish, 12ish, 4ish and 7ish. Somehow I have to race back to houston between 12:30 and 4:00 to get to my phone for the fifth one. Knowing how crappy my driving baseline is, out of the goodness of my heart and a pathological sense of duty, I want to warn everyone on the road tonight:If you see a crazy woman in a gray Suburban driving well over the speed limit, wincing in pain on occasion as she frantically shifts her attention from watch to odometer to road to homeschoolers, get the hell away. Save yourself. As fast as you can. (But can you please wave or give me the thumbs up first. Or better yet, could you be the "Bandit" that sniffs out the Smokeys for me?)