new beginnings

 First, and this is from my west coast brother, the riddle of the day: What's the difference between a hippo and a zippo?

Answer tomorrow.  Feel free to send me your guesses.  If you scroll to the bottom of this entry you should see a place to respond.  

The other first, I was all ready to meet my new student for the year.  This will be my seventh year of tutoring with the Fort Wayne Community Schools Study Connection program.  Today was our first meeting with our new students, and this year I'm supposed to have a first grader.  I say supposed to, because I haven't met him yet.  At noon I got the message that he wasn't at school today so I didn't need to come to the school.  At 12:20 I got a call from our group leader that one of the teachers couldn't be there today so could I come and work with her student for the afternoon.  Of course I said yes since I was ready to go anyway.  Now here's my quandary.  I really liked the third grader I worked with today.  Do I ask to trade or take my chances with my first grader next week?  Would they even let me trade if I wanted to?  Decisions, decisions...