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Dec. 18th, 2011 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowI'm just tapdancing in a mine field, all the pieces of my life -
Kaboose was deeply concerned by the carnivorous chipmunks, as well as the carnivorous cars, hikers, bicycle, icy puddle and Very Large Boulders, but we managed to get outside on a trail with another woman and her Very Large and Slightly Deranged horse for company. We also managed to get in some trotting and a lot of walking and some good storytelling before we returned.
Al is Freaking Right the Fuck Out over the whole college app process. It is like he's making up in intensity what he feels Aeirn is lacking, or something. I am going to make him his own corner of the couch for FRTFO, lacking a bench in the LR. He thinks I am ludicrously lax about the process in particular, and Aerin's personal habits (that she gets from him) in general. Like bedtimes. He didn't understand bedtimes until his late 40s.
Aerin is having random meltdowns over the college process. She worked on parts of the Common App most of today. Well, after she rolled out of bed after noon. She is working absurdly hard, and very inefficiently, on the combined stresses in her life. I talked her down from a horrible place about a half hour ago, deciding how to answer a 300 word essay talking about rigor vs insight in addressing problems.
Among us, only Alice remains relatively serene. Although she was griping about another change in perspective this morning. Which means she's grown another 1/4 inch in the last two days. She wants to emulate the people in Phantom Tollbooth who start out their adult height and grow down, so they don't have to change their point of view.
I started raking out the living room so we could have room for a tree. One trashbag and six stacks of books later I am only a quarter of the way around. Le sigh. Too much crapola.
Kaboose was deeply concerned by the carnivorous chipmunks, as well as the carnivorous cars, hikers, bicycle, icy puddle and Very Large Boulders, but we managed to get outside on a trail with another woman and her Very Large and Slightly Deranged horse for company. We also managed to get in some trotting and a lot of walking and some good storytelling before we returned.
Al is Freaking Right the Fuck Out over the whole college app process. It is like he's making up in intensity what he feels Aeirn is lacking, or something. I am going to make him his own corner of the couch for FRTFO, lacking a bench in the LR. He thinks I am ludicrously lax about the process in particular, and Aerin's personal habits (that she gets from him) in general. Like bedtimes. He didn't understand bedtimes until his late 40s.
Aerin is having random meltdowns over the college process. She worked on parts of the Common App most of today. Well, after she rolled out of bed after noon. She is working absurdly hard, and very inefficiently, on the combined stresses in her life. I talked her down from a horrible place about a half hour ago, deciding how to answer a 300 word essay talking about rigor vs insight in addressing problems.
Among us, only Alice remains relatively serene. Although she was griping about another change in perspective this morning. Which means she's grown another 1/4 inch in the last two days. She wants to emulate the people in Phantom Tollbooth who start out their adult height and grow down, so they don't have to change their point of view.
I started raking out the living room so we could have room for a tree. One trashbag and six stacks of books later I am only a quarter of the way around. Le sigh. Too much crapola.