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...Clown...
...ready for it." Just running for parliament was hard enough. "For the first two weeks," he recalls, "I regarded it as a personal humiliation. People watch you too closely. They want you to answer their questions, explain things, joke, sing and dance. I felt like a clown...
...Cross instructors are serious people, and I sense that they'd like me to stifle my inner class clown. But that's hard when we're watching instructional videos in which one bad actor plays a screaming fry cook who has been burned and another plays a man who carries a bunch of heavy stuff but refuses his co-worker's help. "That's O.K., I've got it," he says--right before tripping down a hill. (That's when we learned how to construct a sling...
...Cross instructors are serious people, and I sense that they'd like me to stifle my inner class clown. But that's hard when we're watching instructional videos in which one bad actor plays a screaming fry cook who has been burned and another plays a man who carries a bunch of heavy stuff but refuses his co-worker's help. "That's OK, I've got it," he says - right before tripping down a hill. (That's when we learned how to construct a sling...
Remember when kids did yard work during the summer? Now they're all at space camp or clown school or starting their own dotcoms. Doing a mundane job at home for low or no pay--such as helping paint the porch--has absolutely no allure. So be prepared: when you ask your kid to weed a row of tomatoes, she will look at you as if to say, "What's my motivation...