Gifted?

I enrolled Darby in the "STudent Enrichment Program" (STEP) at her school today. It's by invitation only, and will consist of 18 kids max. Basically they stay in school another hour and a half or so three days a week to study subjects such as Latin/French, economics/banking, creative thinking/writing, etc. It will only cost me another $35/month over what I'm already paying (bringing the total to nearly $800/mo for both kids), and seems like it would be worth it to give it a shot.

The only thing I can equate the program to from my childhood experience would be the MG ("Mentally Gifted") program of the Philadelphia public school system. Those of us selected got to skip one day of school per week to work on various creative outlets from performing plays to making movies to taking photographs. I had to leave the gifted program when I entered the Catholic school system of Philadelphia, but I essentially replaced it with band/music activities that I feel equally contributed to the growth of my creative being.

So can we thank the MG/music programs of my youth for this blog? Maybe. But probably not. We can probably thank them for the rumors of photos of me in silly outfits. Not that I am confirming the existence of such photos.