Our current strategy is that DD is going to do the next couple of lessons, and then she's going to take off a few weeks from the class to avoid having any MORE salt poured in her wounds...

while she studies American Government by following the national election, and writing an NaNoWriMo novel that she's been cooking up plot for the past few weeks-- a political thriller. I told her that was fine with me as long as she does some research to support the plot with authentic procedural details.

(I think she's thinking about using either cloture, or maybe using the VP's voting powers somehow. She wants to venture off the beaten track a bit. Everyone writes about the executive powers. wink )

She's also going to apply to be a page at our state legislature by contacting our local state rep (who knows us).

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.