So I should be getting ready to drive out to Rockville but instead I've spent longer at Eastern Market. I walked past this guy on the way to the car and then walked another couple blocks to the car and got a few hand warmers and toe warmers out of the trunk and walked the couple blocks back and gave him those and a five that I had on me. He asked ( Read more... )

( long, so everything's behind a cut )

1) I hate how much time and mental energy i have put into contingency plans around traveling down to FL because stepmother. I hate how much sleep I've lost in juggling flights around because nothing is simple

2) I eventually chose to send As noted earlier I will be gone from Florida by Wednesday late afternoon; it is your choice whether you ( Read more... )

So I just typed for around an hour, and hence I should probably put some bullet points on the top for people trying to follow along, and then make some sort of response so I get an email copy, and then go back and put in a cut tag ( Read more... )

I have lost a LOT of time over the last couple days to some swing dance community drama. I'm very angry about it all, in part because I'm annoyed at this concept that adult women lack agency and that it is incumbent on venues to protect the emotional well being of those who attend.

Anyway, it's a long story and I've got a gathering I wanted to ( Read more... )

I've identified something disturbing and upsetting on a few different levels.  It's not completely surprising --- I've seen other people assert that they stay away from news and current events and anything having to do with politics in order to preserve their own sanity.  And, to be honest, I've (mostly privately) derided them.   I remember seeing ( Read more... )

The penultimate song of the Saturday Late Night at the Keep was Tall Trees in Georgia, by Eva CassidyIt was so achingly beautiful and achingly slow, and I could never have lead to a song that slow and with that little of an obvious beat, but I was lucky and got a dance with an awesome lead from Philly ( Read more... )

It was probably a far better choice for LJ anyway.

I'll need to expand on this later as I'm in the middle of leaving the house now. But back a year ago today I posted Playing "Get to know you" via text on the phone: is this a millennial thing ( Read more... )

NPR's headline about actor's death: 'Star Wars' Voice Actor Who, As Admiral Ackbar, Warned 'It's A Trap!' Dies At 93

Erik Bauersfeld's amphibious rebel commander was far from the biggest role that the Star Wars movies had to offer. But three words transformed a bit part into a fan favorite: "It's a trap!"
I'm bemused by his name not being in the ( Read more... )

1) Lack of cope has been high of late. Need for sleep has been high of late. Surprisingly so.
2) I think I finally *get* the concept of 'triggered.'
3) because I think the things from 1 are because of 2, though not in any way I would have understood.

Here's the thing. ( the short form is that watching nursing home stuff stirs up nursing home related guilt and grief re Mom. Duh? )