5th
February
2009
Down & dirty: A bullet post
posted in Books, Economy, Miscellaneous, OmegaDotter, OmegaMom, Wah |Today I:
- Kibbitzed over the dotter’s shoulder while she played Farm Mania.
- Spent about an hour “helping” her do gymnastics.
- Snuggled with her while she read GrannyJ’s latest letter (a few weeks after we received it).
- Helped her type an answering letter.
- Played Farm Mania myself.
- Spent too much time reading Twitters.
- Got ridiculously defensive when boss asked if he and coworker could help with the website revamp. Why?! Partly because I’m trying to get rid of years’ worth of accreted code schmutz and I don’t want to have to explain each and every step, partly because I’m trying to develop a “style” using the stylesheet and I need to write it down before passing it on, partly because…?
- Reveled in daylight when I was driving the dotter to school–we’re gaining five-and-a-half minutes each day, woot!
- Tried very hard to keep away from depressing here-comes-the-Depression websites.
- Read the memo from school about What To Do If The Volcano Blows. (Yes! We got an official memo about it!)
- Spent all day in my pajamas–driving the dotter to school, working six hours, helping with homework, playing, hanging out, eating dinner–and didn’t feel guilty about it, though did make sure not to turn on the video when we had a Skype meeting at work.
- Dipped in and out of Godel, Escher, Bach, which I am enjoying immensely, even though it’s–at the same time–immensely slow going.
- Suppressed any sneaky moments of gloom-n-doom.
- Determined that Wall Street is sorely in need of a good overall PR person, or else a bunch of sadly lacking common sense.
- Tried to figure out if I agree with the various incarnations of the stimulus plan or not.
- Felt amazed, astounded, and somewhat affirmed and proud that the dotter’s recital of friend S.’s tendency to peek at her math work at school and copy it ended up with, “That’s bad. She’s not learning it.”
- Felt equally amazed, and very happy, that the dotter said about her latest assigned book from school, “I want to keep reading–it’s like TV in your head!”
I am finding that simply getting out of the house each day, and doing a little bit of exercise, plus a heapin’ helpin’ of commiseratin’ commentary from my readers, has helped keep the blues to a minimum for the past few days. Fingers crossed that this continues!
