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type: person
ventures: [family]
quiet-list: false
updated: 2026-09-12
---

# Sam

<!-- src: interview with Rowan, 2026-09-05 -->

Rowan and [[Maya]]'s daughter. **16. Junior year.** Robotics team.

## Handling — hard rule
**Not a ticket queue. Not a project with a status. She gets no task list**
(ADR-14). Her dates appear in the brief's family-and-personal section with
**equal billing to the board.** A collision arrives as a question with two options
and **no recommendation** (authority row 15).

## This year
- **College list by October.**
- **Three campus visits she wants** — no dates given yet.
- **Driving to robotics, Tuesdays and Saturdays.**
- ~~**In July she asked Rowan to read her essay draft. It is still in his personal
  Gmail** — the account he calls "where things go to die." *"That's the one."*~~
  **Read Saturday 12 September.** See below.

## Dates
- **Robotics regional: Tuesday 8 September.** Same day as the Halcyon board at
  13:00. Rowan said he would drive her. He had not put those two facts side by
  side until the interview. **7 September: he is going to the regional. The
  board goes on a phone.** <!-- src: inbox/_archive/2026-09-07/2026-09-07-voice-1.md -->

  **Outcome, 8 September** <!-- src: Rowan, Tuesday evening 2026-09-08 -->:
  **her team took second and qualified for state.** Rowan's words:

  > "Sam's team took second and qualified for state. I was there for all of it."

  He took the 13:00 board by phone from the car park. **The state date is not
  known** and is not assumed.
- **Her essay draft — asked for in July, read Saturday 12 September.**
  He raised it himself, unprompted, on 7 September: *"remind me I still haven't
  read Sam's essay. It's been since July. That one's just — that's on me."*
  `hobbs-2e6`, closed 12 September. **The interval is recorded below at his
  instruction.**
- SAT/ACT dates, college visits: in a **school PDF calendar Rowan has never
  successfully found.**
- Her **robotics coach: [[Delia Karr]].** Named by Rowan on the evening of the
  regional, 8 September. The blank had been open since 5 September. `hobbs-4jl`
  closed.

## Why she is at the centre of this
> "Sam is sixteen and her junior year is happening about four feet from me and
> I'm going to look up in June and it will be over and I will have been at a
> rig."


## The essay — asked for in July, read 12 September
<!-- src: Rowan, Saturday 2026-09-12 -->

Rowan's words:

> "I read Sam's essay. All of it, twice. It's about my father's shop, which I did
> not know and which she has never mentioned, and it's better than anything I
> could have told her about that place. I told her so. She said 'I know.'"

**The gap is in the record at his instruction, and it is the reason this section
exists rather than a one-line closure:**

> "File that she asked in July and I read it on 12 September, because I want the
> gap in the record and not just the outcome."

| | |
|---|---|
| Asked | **July 2026** — month only; no date was ever given |
| Read | **Saturday 12 September 2026** — all of it, twice |
| Interval | **roughly two months**, not stated more precisely than the record allows |
| Raised by Rowan unprompted | 7 September — *"that's on me"* |
| Carried as | `hobbs-2e6`, P0, open from 5 September, closed 12 September |

**Recorded and not interpreted.** Her sentence is here in her words because that is
how it was given. Hobbs holds no view on the essay, on what she said, or on the
interval — the interval is filed because Rowan asked for it filed, and that is the
whole of its purpose here (authority rows 15, 16; ADR-14).