[For those who understand the import of this]
Today I made hotel reservations so I can visit my daughter and her boyfriend in Columbus, OH for Thanksgiving.
I’ll head over at some point on Wed. afternoon and head home Friday.
I also made at commitment to go to Jen!!s party on that Saturday. Hmmm. Would’ve been my 28th wedding anniversary. Good enough reason to party, I guess.
Hopefully I’ll feel well enough physically. Plus, although Jen!! is younger than me she still starts her parties at a reasonable time unlike many of the “kids.”
I’ve been missing a lot of parties over the last year and a half due to feeling poorly, especially considering not heading out until 9 PM or so.
I’m also trying to make arrangements to go see my mom and sister, brother-in-law and niece at Christmas in the D.C. area.
Commitments to others. They can be real life savers.
wah Kurt and I were just recently talking about how concerned we were about you! Glad to hear from you!
Hey jenny,
Loved your slides! And I have a present I picked up for you (on Richard’s prodding, truth be told) if I can only get off my rear and get it in the mail.
How’s Kurt? I need to talk to him about a picture he left in cataloging and see if he wants it mailed.
I’m kind of mixed at the moment. I’m pretty much trying to accept things as they are (the better to get through them) but I am also feeling like a failure for not being able to get my program to work.
And I know better than to compare myself to my fellow students but, damn, some of them are doing some pretty complex stuff.
So I’m still “looking forward” to turning in a broken assignment later this afternoon. Have to work most of the day so not much time to work on it, not that that’d help anyway.
I’ve tried everything I can think of but perhaps not in the right combination. I did reach out to one person and she suggested that that was the right tack. Well, that’s fine, but at this point it doesn’t help me much. Even if I was to somehow luck onto the right combination it would teach me absolutely nothing. I would still have no idea why that in fact was what I had needed to do all along.
And while “success” is nice, the learning is far more important. At the moment I have neither.
I actually woke up feeling pretty good about things until I remembered that I am still failing at a simple task.
I know it doesn’t sound that way, but I’m OK. At least as OK as someone can be who knows they failed at something that ought to be simple.