the thought that counts

8.

Why was six scared? Because seven, eight, nine.

Numbers have a strange tendency to rule our lives. I know I have my fair share; pin numbers, school numbers, library card numbers, address numbers, postcodes. I know for all the VCE kids that today numbers were very important - well to most. ENTERS came out today. The number that can change your future. Everyone sits somewhere on that bell curve - well, I don't: IB. My numbers have a more limited range. 1 to 7. 3 out of 3. And 45. For me, it's personal satisfaction and my notional ENTER which matter. But I'm not going to bother worrying about that just yet.

Funnily enough, I sometimes find I think in terms of numbers. Families differ depending on the number of children they have. In the morning, I think of my sleep in as portions of 5s. 5 minutes. Another 5 minutes, etc. I think of pants as 2s and t-shirts as 1s. I think of book pages in terms of halves and quarters. Letters have numbers too - but this may be due to scrabble.

Good luck VCE children. For today and tomorrow.