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One of our staff took the morning off so she could go to Moffett Field and bid the space shuttle goodbye. I thought "what a sweetly obsessive thing to do" and then . . .
Another staff person sayed her husband had just called and told her that the shuttle would be flying right over us in a few minutes. I wasn't very excited: I figured it would be way up there in the sky and we wouldn't know it from the twenty or so planes that pass overhead every day. I was wrong. It was flying very low: it was huge: it was a whale and her baby in the sky, accompanied by an eel or something. It was amazingly close, like you could just touch the thing and fly away with it. The staff all whooped and hollered, and I cried, and, unfortunately, so did some of the babies . . . I guess between the size of the thing, and the noise that it made, and the noise us grownups made, it was just a bit scary.
One of our older toddlers was explaining it to his mom when she came by later. It was a really big plane. One of the newly-minted toddlers (that is, she was a baby three weeks ago), was still kind of moaning every time a plane flew over, the rest of the day.
On another front, we have over 75% penetration with conjunctivitis now, between the kids and staff who have gotten over it and the ones who have just got it.
Another staff person sayed her husband had just called and told her that the shuttle would be flying right over us in a few minutes. I wasn't very excited: I figured it would be way up there in the sky and we wouldn't know it from the twenty or so planes that pass overhead every day. I was wrong. It was flying very low: it was huge: it was a whale and her baby in the sky, accompanied by an eel or something. It was amazingly close, like you could just touch the thing and fly away with it. The staff all whooped and hollered, and I cried, and, unfortunately, so did some of the babies . . . I guess between the size of the thing, and the noise that it made, and the noise us grownups made, it was just a bit scary.
One of our older toddlers was explaining it to his mom when she came by later. It was a really big plane. One of the newly-minted toddlers (that is, she was a baby three weeks ago), was still kind of moaning every time a plane flew over, the rest of the day.
On another front, we have over 75% penetration with conjunctivitis now, between the kids and staff who have gotten over it and the ones who have just got it.
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Sad, fantastic view and OWWWWW
Conjunctivitis: owww and oy. Had it, they don't give out t-shirts (that IS what is also called 'pink-eye,' isn't it?). It is painful, contagious and, well, when you work with little children, sometimes very hard to avoid. Though when I worked at the Vet Vaccine Manufacturer, we had a dumb-a!!, just-out-of-college research employee come down with it and not tell anyone. AND he was using the scopes they used to evaluate production bacteria on a daily basis.
Glad you saw the Enterprise, sorry it scared some of the children. And hope you avoid eye irritations.
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