Can someone please tell me what this is about?

I didn't mean to put the marks on the fence, Grant had some effect open in Paint Shop Pro. Anyway, I think you get the picture (haha). This YOUNG WOMAN did schoolwork independently while I was incapacitated. I asked her if she had finished "The Day I Dissapeared" and she said it got boring, but she read "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little" over the weekend, and is into "The Dark Hills Divide" now. She's going to be spending the night at Christina's soon. She really wants to go see Wicked because her musical theater's recital piece is a song from Wicked and we just found out it's playing down here soon. And no, we are not standing on a steeply inclined hill :p She has frequently been seen around in a hoodie with her new iPod earpieces in, lately.

Other than that, our last week has featured:

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My brother is so disordered in his priorities. For instance, he can fill you in very authoritatively on movie trivia, band members, crossover albums, and versions of video games on a level that is borderline disturbing. But he doesn't know very basic things - history things, math things, social studies, grammatical stuff - on an elementary school level. I mean LOTS of things.

Likewise, while I have to gouge my own eyes out to get him to fill out a job application or take a shower, he is really, really concerned and "on the up and up" about bs that does not matter AT ALL. Let me illustrate; one night, we set a timer for an hour and sat down to watch half of a movie with A and A. About 3/4 of the way through he came out, stood in the doorway with his hand raised and after we paused it said, "Just wanted to let you know the timer says 15 more minutes."

O_O

Today he called Grant at work to be like, "Hey man, I know this isn't, like, 'an emergency', but I spotted a Dr Pepper out on the counter unopened. Do you want me to put it in the fridge?"

No joke, I laughed until I cried when I heard about this later.

The thing is he does this kind of stuff a LOT, and he always uses this all business tone and he acts really, really offended - even saying things like "Well fine then" if you act like this stuff is not Serious Business.

And this is why I don't know to what degree he's bullshitting me and to what degree he's sincere, when he tells me he would have went out and looked for a job all afternoon...but he thought we needed him to watch the chickens.


HOWEVER: He has made his first solo bus trip and his first solo substantial walk, and I do count both of these as progress. Also he continues to do anything we ask around the house, including things that are actually very helpful.