Nothing happened this week
Well, not nothing. School for T started on Thursday and so far there have been no issues. He has woken up and gone to school with minimal-to-no complaining. The bus driver is not crazy and the bus has come on time without missing our house. There's no story there (as yet, any way). He doesn't have homework till Monday. Tonight I told him that he should do it since it won't take him long and we won't have to engage in painful removal-of-privilege power struggles and he shocked me by shrugging his shoulders and saying "OK." Now THAT might be a story.
I did not watch the Democratic Convention because I just could not stay up that late. I tried, I watched some of the earlier speakers each night but I just had to go to bed before the main speakers came on. I hear MObama was great though (this is slightly faux-naif, OK?)
I finished reading David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years and realized that at least 1/5 of it is notes and bibliography. So I ordered one from Amazon so I can pore over them at my leisure. I still don't agree with anarchism as a political philosophy but as a personal philosophy it has definite possibilities.
And otherwise--it's been miserably humid (typical for early September) and my hair has been utterly wild. Today I put about 5 different anti-frizz products in it and brushed it straight and it resolved itself into corkscrew ringlets. I had very curly hair as a child and it went straight when I was a teen. This is a typical pattern on my mom's side of the family--there are all these pics of small children with angelic ringlets (including my mother) who 10 years later have straight straight hair.
But my own variation on the hair thing is that my hair was super straight (and limp) until I got pregnant at which point it became so curly that people who hadn't seen me for a while assumed I got a perm and now it's verging on out of control frizzy curls. I'll have to see what happens in the winter when there's less humidity. In the meantime, I think I need a haircut. I have not had a real one in 3 years, possibly 4.
Oh wait, something did happen this week--the seat of my 12 year old Aeron chair cracked. I can still sit in it but there's no tilt tension and I have to push up with my legs so I don't slide off, which is tiresome. Fortunately, it's still under warranty and AMAZINGLY the dealer recommended by Herman Miller will order the parts for me and then send someone out here to fix it. I say amazingly because the other 3 repair places I contacted (found by googling) said I had to ship it to them at my own expense.
You would not believe the anxiety I experienced over this. I had a whole elaborate plan to buy a chair from Staples as a replacement and then send it back once the 30 days were up. I spent a lot of time in this chair and I'm happy to be able to continue to sit in it, lol. I think I still have residual guilt from buying it in the first place. I mean, $800 is a lot to spend on a desk chair. But it's sooooooo comfy.
At work we have all been assigned to write blurbs for Banned Book Week, which is later this month. The Library is going to do some kind of online thing. So far I have done Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Natural (sex ed) which was a snap, and The Tale of Little Black Sambo, which was difficult, if only because there is a broad range of opinions about why the book should/should not be banned and I kind of agreed (well, saw the point of, is that the same as agreed?) with both sides. I did a LOT of background reading and then had to synthesize the info and compress it into 500 words. I may still revise it somewhat.
Next is The Anarchist Cookbook. Not to be confused with The Anarchist's Cookbook, although similar in nature.
I did not watch the Democratic Convention because I just could not stay up that late. I tried, I watched some of the earlier speakers each night but I just had to go to bed before the main speakers came on. I hear MObama was great though (this is slightly faux-naif, OK?)
I finished reading David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years and realized that at least 1/5 of it is notes and bibliography. So I ordered one from Amazon so I can pore over them at my leisure. I still don't agree with anarchism as a political philosophy but as a personal philosophy it has definite possibilities.
And otherwise--it's been miserably humid (typical for early September) and my hair has been utterly wild. Today I put about 5 different anti-frizz products in it and brushed it straight and it resolved itself into corkscrew ringlets. I had very curly hair as a child and it went straight when I was a teen. This is a typical pattern on my mom's side of the family--there are all these pics of small children with angelic ringlets (including my mother) who 10 years later have straight straight hair.
But my own variation on the hair thing is that my hair was super straight (and limp) until I got pregnant at which point it became so curly that people who hadn't seen me for a while assumed I got a perm and now it's verging on out of control frizzy curls. I'll have to see what happens in the winter when there's less humidity. In the meantime, I think I need a haircut. I have not had a real one in 3 years, possibly 4.
Oh wait, something did happen this week--the seat of my 12 year old Aeron chair cracked. I can still sit in it but there's no tilt tension and I have to push up with my legs so I don't slide off, which is tiresome. Fortunately, it's still under warranty and AMAZINGLY the dealer recommended by Herman Miller will order the parts for me and then send someone out here to fix it. I say amazingly because the other 3 repair places I contacted (found by googling) said I had to ship it to them at my own expense.
You would not believe the anxiety I experienced over this. I had a whole elaborate plan to buy a chair from Staples as a replacement and then send it back once the 30 days were up. I spent a lot of time in this chair and I'm happy to be able to continue to sit in it, lol. I think I still have residual guilt from buying it in the first place. I mean, $800 is a lot to spend on a desk chair. But it's sooooooo comfy.
At work we have all been assigned to write blurbs for Banned Book Week, which is later this month. The Library is going to do some kind of online thing. So far I have done Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Natural (sex ed) which was a snap, and The Tale of Little Black Sambo, which was difficult, if only because there is a broad range of opinions about why the book should/should not be banned and I kind of agreed (well, saw the point of, is that the same as agreed?) with both sides. I did a LOT of background reading and then had to synthesize the info and compress it into 500 words. I may still revise it somewhat.
Next is The Anarchist Cookbook. Not to be confused with The Anarchist's Cookbook, although similar in nature.