I get a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon emailed to me each day. The last few days Calvin has been very distressed because his evil teacher wants him to do a leaf collection. He has to collect fifty leaves. Hobbes tries to tell him that this is no problem. Calvin says yeah but his teacher wants each leaf to be different. Hobbes again tries to convince Calvin that this will be easy if he starts and gets a few leaves every day. Of Calvin only wants to live in the present and sees this as a great waste of his time.

I have a Calvin here. Homework is an evil machination to take away his time and soul. Doing a little bit at a time and managing responsibilites takes overwhelming effort. I've tried to get him to a little bit of this project each day, it is due on Friday.

It has been an overwhelming effort on MY part to get him to do it.

I did see a faint, ever so slight smile on his face tonight as he reaches the end product.

Sigh, that feeling of accomplishment is so cool but so hard to get to.