Successful Friends

One of my good friends, Ned Johnson, one of the guys in Fair Game, our DC-based a cappella group (I guess I am a member emeritus, at least until I get back to the Washington area someday), is prominently featured in this article in yesterday's Times. My buttons are bursting with pride.

I have taught test prep before, and had I not gotten a job in the groves (Note to self: Must ask Ned in his role as verbal test-prep teacher: Is"groves" an appropriate word given that I am in West Texas? Am I in the"scrub-brush" of academe? The"mesquite forest"?) I may well have ended up with Ned as my boss at Prepmatters, his uber-successful Bethesda, MD-based test prep company. I am pretty ambivalent about the whole test-prep endeavor. But I also know how hard Ned works (check out that hourly rate and when his next available appointment slot is) and am familiar with both the realities of competitive college admissions and with Ned's philosophy that he has brought to his company.

This may raise lots of questions among the Rebunk faithful about competitive college admissions, test-prep, and the like, but mainly I just wanted to congratulate Ned and spread the gospel. Plus, the Times is, in its provincial way, fine. But now that it's on Rebunk, it's big time!