Story of the Day 5/ 20/ 2014

My daughter has been working on a final project for a class she is in, this semester.
It is a group project, and there are two other students in the group.
Sarah was very excited to be working with them. They are a little bit older and she thought they seemed like very interesting people.
But, as she has learnt, perhaps a little too interesting.
At least one of them is.

They had a work meeting to discuss the project, and the one young man showed up late.
Late but not very, very late.
And drunk.
Happy, but drunk. Very, very drunk.

Then, on the day they were supposed to film, this being video project, he show up .
At all.
And he was supposed to bring along the video camera they needed to film the project.

Nor did he respond to the 27 texts they frantically sent him.

I told Sarah, "You should have realized that you could not depend upon him, when he showed up for the work meeting drunk."

This is when, in telling me this, that I realized I had the first part of the story wrong.
It was not just one of the two men who was a bit too interesting, it was both of them.
You see, the guy who showed up drug to the work meeting DID show up to do the project.
It was the OTHER young man who did not show up. Drunk or otherwise.

As a result, Sarah and the other student - the one who had been drunk. but is, at least for the moment, sober -
are now frantically scrambling to put together backup projects to hand in, this Thursday.

Sarah, though, first had to finsih her paper for her history class; so today, she has started on the new project.
A 30 page script.
As a result of this last minute rush to complete the project, I am being texted, right and left.
Sarah is checking out ideas, asking the names of codes, etc.

She is also trying to use idioms correctly.
English is Sarah's second language and she has a very good vocabulary, but she sometimes, because she is Deaf and she has never heard English spoken, will slightly misuse an idiom.
She also likes to use references for which she has no reference.
Like references to music, which she has never heard.
Many people who are deaf have enough residual hearing to hear and appreciate some music.
Sarah does not.
She can hear a hand grenade.
Not that she ever has.

Twice, over the many years we have gone to professional basketball games, she has "heard" the crowd. Both times because her chest vibrated from the level of sound.
As far as her ears went, it was still silent.

So, she is writing away, frantically, and putting in references.
And she decided she wanted to use a band's name in it.
The band called " Rock and Roll."
I had to inform her that was not the name of a band, but she was sure it was.
She hears them referred to fairly frequently.
"No", I told her, "It is a genre of music."
Genre, like fiction, drama, mystery.
"Oh.
I am not sure if it had ever occurred to her, before, that there were different kinds of music.....

But she has, now,remembered the name of another band that she can use.
The name of a band that is actually a band, "The Rolling Stones".

And she has come away from this project having learnt something.
That she can rely on the drunk guy more than upon the one who is sober.
Okay, maybe not, but it was the only moral I could get to fit the story.