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ciroccojDaniel swam up from Beavers to Cub today. And we registered Justin for Beavers next September.
My boys. They're so big.
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Volunteering in Justin's class tomorrow, then going to Guy's to mow his lawn.
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Painter-dude coming in tomorrow to take a look at our house and give us an estimate. It'll be odd to have walls with no peeling patches, crayon scribbling, or toy-hammer-induced-pockmarks. It'll be like we're grown-ups or something.
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You know, it's odd, I can never decide which is funnier: well-written on-purpose badfic, or the accidental kind. On-purpose provides more consistent laughs per paragraph, but the accidental kind has the same charm as improv: the beauty of spontaneity. Plus, of course, there's the horror factor. I may still cringe at Alisia D. Crede's "ravished Lennie's mouth with his tongue" and "roiling sea of orgasmic bliss", but the painful beauty of the phrase "the proof of his desire rising through the steam" is just that much more acute because it was actually meant to be arousing.
My boys. They're so big.
Volunteering in Justin's class tomorrow, then going to Guy's to mow his lawn.
Painter-dude coming in tomorrow to take a look at our house and give us an estimate. It'll be odd to have walls with no peeling patches, crayon scribbling, or toy-hammer-induced-pockmarks. It'll be like we're grown-ups or something.
You know, it's odd, I can never decide which is funnier: well-written on-purpose badfic, or the accidental kind. On-purpose provides more consistent laughs per paragraph, but the accidental kind has the same charm as improv: the beauty of spontaneity. Plus, of course, there's the horror factor. I may still cringe at Alisia D. Crede's "ravished Lennie's mouth with his tongue" and "roiling sea of orgasmic bliss", but the painful beauty of the phrase "the proof of his desire rising through the steam" is just that much more acute because it was actually meant to be arousing.
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Date: 2005-05-19 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-20 12:54 pm (UTC)Hee - no, although re-reading my entry, I can see why it totally looks like that. It's actually levels within Scouts Canada. 5-7 = Beavers, 8-10 = Cubs, Scouts 11-14, Venturers 14-17, Rovers 18-26. I think Scouts USA has the same levels, although the Canadian version is coed all the way through - though usually there's many more boys than girls (eg Daniel's Beaver colony was 20 boys and 2 girls.)
(grins and wonders what the very top level is!)
LOL - Moose, of course!
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Date: 2005-05-20 12:57 pm (UTC)Whoops, no, I stand corrected; upon visiting Scouts USA, it seems the US has
Tiger Cubs: 7-year-old boys
Cub Scouts: 8-10 yr old boys
Webelos: 10 yr olds boys
Boy Scouting: 11-17 boys
Varsity Scouting: 14-17 boys
Venturing: 14-20 boys and girls