School and Brian

Brian has been in school since Sept. 3rd and when I got home from work yesterday there was a letter from the High School. Brian has lunch detention all of next week because he skipped an after school detention this past Monday. Apparently he forgot a text book for one of his classes and didn't think it was important enough to go to detention. He claims he forgot he had detention - I doubt it. Anyway, as I told him real good impression the first month of school. Anyway, he lucked out, because next week they don't have school Tuesday and Wednesday because of the Jewish holiday(s). Last night was back to school night and it went well. The only problem was that Brian doesn't know the room numbers of his classes, so I had a piece of paper with the teacher's names and what floor they were on. Luckily the school had seniors there to help parents find the classrooms. I only missed 1 of his classes - geometry. I was running around and going up and down many flights of stairs, but I did it. I forgot how confusing it can be. Anyway, all of his teachers seem really nice especially his Biology teacher whom Brian really likes also. I think I will be taking Brian to the hospital tonight. He messed up his right thumb pretty badly - very swollen, black and blue and painful, and I made an appointment at the orthopede, the same one my mom is going to for her broken arm/wrist, but it's not until Wednesday at 11am, and 1 the date is too far away and 2nd I can't take him Wednesday. We are having a big retirement luncheon for a guy at work and I am the one organizing it, so I have to be here, so I think I'll take him to the hospital either tonight when I get home from work or first thing tomorrow morning. Life with Brian is never dull. He makes for interesting times. I really do get a kick out of him and his friends. He has been friends with most of them for so long, since grammar school, that it's fun to see them now as they mature. They still annoy me and do things just to get me going, but for the most part they are GREAT kids/young adults. I still don't understand how in 10th grade he doesn't get much homework, but he's doing well so far, so whatever he's doing seems to be working. We now have our sights set on college and he desperately wants to go to college in CA so I have been busy going on line and getting info about colleges, just so he has an idea of what he has to do between now and college. His first choice, USC is out, he wouldn't get in and it's $47,000 a year, his 2nd choice is also out, I forget what it is, but he wouldn't get in and it's $45,000 a year, so now he/we have our sights set on Cal State, which is about $27,000 a year and definately doable as far as him getting in. It's also good because they have an outline of what classes he should be taking in preparation from 9th grade through senior year and gives him an idea of what his grades and SAT scores have to be. so, at least he's working towards something. The other nice thing I learned last night at back to school night, all 10th graders in Dumont HS take the PSAT's in school to get them prepared and the school pays for it.