ciroccoj | quickie day in the life

Justin is doing his school spelling homework, and is looking through the dictionary. He has found "intercontinental" and "ballistic" so far.

Justin: Oh look, and my next word, "missile" is spelled right in the definition of "ballistic". How convenient.
Me: So you're learning "ballistic" and "missile", eh? How nice. How about you learn how to spell "death"? And "war" and "violence" and "pestilence"?
Justin: Oh pestilence is spelled p-e-s-t-i-l-e-n-c-e.
Me: How do you know that? (Justin's spelling is notoriously poor)
Justin: Magic! ::shows me a "Magic: the Gathering" card::

Yet another reason for those bloody cards to be left all over the house; now they're spelling aids, too. ::sigh::
How wonderful to wake up to raised voices yesterday morning, Daniel's yelling "...be so STUPID!" and Justin yelling "...NOT!!" back and people and things committing agitated movement downstairs. Wtf can they be fighting about at 7:50AM, I ask myself, and go stumbling down the stairs to break it up.

Daniel's misplaced his bus pass. He's frantically searching, yelling, "How could I be so STUPID I KNOW I'm supposed to keep it in ONE PLACE--" the whole time and Justin is helping him and saying, "No you're NOT, stop saying that, we're going to find it, just relax, you're NOT STUPID!"

He did find it. Made it to the bus on time, too :)