As you read this, hopefully I’m sitting comfortably at Mountain Market in Haines, enjoying a hot drink with Michelle, waiting for Aly to finish her final round of Scholastic Aptitude Testing. She smoked the SAT itself a couple months ago. Today she’s taking two subject tests to “keep in her back pocket” for college admissions applications.
Thank goodness she’s the only student in Haines taking subject tests today. Her unique status provides us a little leeway in arriving at the scheduled 7:45 a.m. start of the regular SAT session. We may well spend that leeway getting to town in the current winter storm. We do scrambles like this more often than we care to, but not having the added requirement of showing up precisely on time will help reduce the already high stress we’re all feeling today. Even so—well, let’s just say that hot drink will seem well-deserved. Continue reading