Law Students

T's boyfriend arrives in town Thursday evening from Seattle. I've never met him. He'll be staying with us for several nights. I warned her some time ago that she had to clean her room before he arrives (not that they'll be spending any time alone together in her room, just on principle).

She's been working on her room, including some laundry, for a couple of nights. She just went to bed but first talked me into getting up and checking out her "decent" room.

Oh, my.

Since she wanted me to come look at it now, rather than waiting until the morning, my expectations rose. This was on of those moments where I probably should have praised her efforts and given her some encouragement, since she plans to "finish" cleaning tomorrow.

All I could manage was: "It's not that it's not progress...."

Full post as published by Just Playin on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).