The Joy of Myr...

[partly]

Myr had her district Forensics meet today. I was worried she wouldn't make it because the flu has decided to make itself at home in my house. I kept her home from school on Friday because I knew that she would hate missing the Forensics meet. It was the right decision despite her insistence that she could have made it. She probably could have, but the kid is way too tough for her own good and "making it" isn't a good choice.

Anyhow, she was feeling good today and did well at the meet. She scored well enough to move onto state, which is next month. So, YAY MYR!

Currently we are taking turns watching Firefly (which we have seen before) and Brisco County, Jr. (which we just got). In between, we take long breaks and Myr works on her English paper. She's writing on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911. It's her first true research paper and the teacher is having them do all the bells and whistles -- from using non-internet sources to organizing their points on index cards to do several drafts that will be peer-critiqued. The best part of it is how enthusiastic Myr is about the subject and paper. I love how she stops every so often to read me a good quote or a tragic snippet. I love how she's debating the structure of her paper and whether or not all the subtopics she's chosen are really relevant to her thesis -- or if she should modify her thesis now that she's discovered more about the Fire.

Mostly I love that she really, really wants to do the paper well and that she is truly interested in the subject -- going so far as to completely reading the books she checked out.

She just loves to learn new things.

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SO COOL!