I sent her a joke (which I will include, with the following caveat: Don't hate me because I'm funnier than you are). She responded... and the following was the result.
Start with the joke from me:
What goes “oooooooooo”?
Answer?
A cow with no lips
She replied:
dear dad I am sending you a high-ku
did you make that up
i mean did you make the joke
i really liked it
Back from me:
What a nice haiku.
You did very well young child.
I think you can stay.
Dad – Haiku’Master-san
And from her:
ah but can you beat
me in the art of haiku
old pupil daddy
If only she were Japanese, and it were a millennium or two ago, she would have a lot of potential.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Thoughts From An Email Exchange
While home for lunch today, I received the following email from Erika...
Dear dad I can;t tell you all that much right now because I have a ton of e-mail that i have to answer right now but I promise I will get back to you as soon as possible,
Love,
Erika
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This was in reference to the following email I had sent her:
Are you having a great time?
Can’t wait to hear all your stories.
I love you.
Dad
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Thoughts:
1) I don't ever remember being overwhelmed by email when I was 8 years old. Granted, the late 70's were a bit slow on the email front, but I'm not sure I remember being overwhelmed by anything when I was 8.
2) The email she is referencing is one I sent her a couple of months ago when she was up with her grandparents in Indiana. Those were the stories I was looking forward to hearing. She seems to have missed the date stamp in the midst of her frenzied email-answer-a-thon and thinks this is a current email from me.
3) I saw Erika yesterday afternoon. It doesn't seem to surprise her that I would be waiting anxiously to hear all of the stories that have accumulated in her life in the last 14-20 hours. Granted, it's summer and she's doing what kids do during the summer, that is to say very little, but still she will have stories to tell.
4) I actually am looking forward to hearing them.
Dear dad I can;t tell you all that much right now because I have a ton of e-mail that i have to answer right now but I promise I will get back to you as soon as possible,
Love,
Erika
----
This was in reference to the following email I had sent her:
Are you having a great time?
Can’t wait to hear all your stories.
I love you.
Dad
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Thoughts:
1) I don't ever remember being overwhelmed by email when I was 8 years old. Granted, the late 70's were a bit slow on the email front, but I'm not sure I remember being overwhelmed by anything when I was 8.
2) The email she is referencing is one I sent her a couple of months ago when she was up with her grandparents in Indiana. Those were the stories I was looking forward to hearing. She seems to have missed the date stamp in the midst of her frenzied email-answer-a-thon and thinks this is a current email from me.
3) I saw Erika yesterday afternoon. It doesn't seem to surprise her that I would be waiting anxiously to hear all of the stories that have accumulated in her life in the last 14-20 hours. Granted, it's summer and she's doing what kids do during the summer, that is to say very little, but still she will have stories to tell.
4) I actually am looking forward to hearing them.
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