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Monday, July 25, 2005 Family

Me: “So, Logan, what did you do at camp today?”
Logan: “Um, I made a bridge in Science… I made a tower in Science… I made science in Science…”
Me: “OK, smart boy, I get it. Hey, I thought you said you were going to write your name on a grain of rice this week.”
Logan: ‘Yeah, they said we were going to do that today, but now I don’t know when.”
Me: “Do you think maybe they were pulling your leg?”
Logan: “No, Mom, we’re really going to do it.”
Me: “I can’t imagine what you would use to do it. I didn’t see a microscope and scrimshaw tools there.”
Logan: “We could do it with a pen. S’easy.”
Me: “A pen.”
Logan: “Yes.”
Me: “Just any old pen.”
Logan: “Of course.”
Me: “Any pen you use will have a tip bigger than the grain of rice. You can’t really use a regular pen for this.”
Logan: “Come on, Mom. Be scientific. You just write really small.”
Me: “I bet you come home on Friday with a piece of paper that says,‘My name on a grain of rice.’ That’s how I’d do it.”

After a moment there was a lot of laughing from the back seat. I think I just served up a perfect cut-up routine for the teacher.