I have gone shopping for yummy, delicious Trader Joe's food. More surprising still? I did not buy a single item of meat.

Yes, Date Girl is vegetarian, why do you ask?

I'm trying to figure out if Rosemary Kennedy went to school. I can find on the internet the names of the boarding schools where all her siblings went, but the most that I can find about her education is that her father hired some tutors to help her learn how to read and write, but nothing about anything between about age 9 and age 20 or so.

I think I need to find a book about them, rather than trying to find out little details like this from the internet.

t edit: found it. Combination of tutors and special schools.

I'm having vegetarian lasagna right now (AIFG) but I'm going to Trader's Joes later for buffalo (although I'm sure they mean bison) burgers.

TJ's is awesome for veggie options, isn't it?

And, yay! Stargazing and cooking together is good, good, good.

I have no new tag. I'm toying with the worst piece of bad writing in the bad novel excerpt Tom linked to in Natter this morning, "Diminutive and deferential, with a forehead of life-long suffering," but I may go in the opposite direction and browse through IMDB's page of Midnight Run quotes.

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

"I got two words for you: Shut the fuck up." It's a classic.

They didn't stick her in a home when she was a child, she went everywhere her family went. There was general knowledge, I believe, that the one daughter was a bit "slow" or "different".

The book that I just found says that her parents didn't tell anyone about her diagnosis, and when anyone asked why she wasn't participating in the conversations or games as much as her siblings were, her parents would just say that she was shy.

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

Wow it's been too long since I saw Midnight Run. All I remember is "you two are the worst bounty hunters ever!"

"Make yourself a sandwich, drink a glass of milk... Do some fuckin' thing. "

"You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?"

"Jack? 'What?' When do you think you we're gonna get to L.A.? 'None of your fucking business!' Well, I have to go to the bathroom. 'Shut the fuck up!'"

"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fucking word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head."

God I love that fuckin' movie.

According to Lawrence Leamer's The Kennedy Women, Rosemary started kindergarten at the same school the rest of the children went to, Edward Devotion School. Her teacher wasn't able to pass her, so she stayed behind a year and by the end of that second year in kindergarten, her teacher gave her passing C's, but they were passing with the understanding that Rosemary wouldn't be going on to first grade. She'd been given the Binet test and put in what was, at that time, termed the "moron" category, which was above "idiot" and "imbecile" (all terms used by the scientific community in the early 20s). In other words, she was estimated at having an IQ somewhere around 70. She could have been put in a special class that the Brookline, Mass schools offered, but that was a huge social stigma at the time. So Rosemary was largely educated by tutors, governesses and nuns.

When the Kennedys moved to New York in 1928, Rosemary went to Riverdale Country School with her sisters, being admitted to the same class as Eunice.

When she was fifteen, she was sent to the Sacred Heart Convent in Providence Rhode Island but there, she worked exclusively with two nuns and another teacher brought in specifically for her. But basically, by that point, she had hit a fourth grade level of achievement and couldn't really go much further.

When they were in England, while Joe was ambassador in the thirties, she was sent to a Montessori school. Basically, that's all I was able to find in Leamer's book.

"Don't say a word to me, Sidney, don't say a fucking word to me. I'll get up and I'll bury this telephone in your head."

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