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6 for Saturday
Feb. 17th, 2018 10:27 am1. I am weirdly optimistic (I know, I know, I know; we watched twenty something primary school kids mowed down by guns and nothing changed; I know) that maybe some gun control laws will go forward in the wake of this latest school shooting. The students and teachers are being vocal in a way that I haven't seen before, particularly on social media. Student after student is saying stuff like, "Screw your thoughts and prayers; you need to protect us." Fox News is the only TV at the gym, and I watched a teacher give an interview in which she went on and on about gun control and President Trump being an idiot and the anchor couldn't even interrupt her or get a word in edgewise because she'd just watched her students die and it'd been less than 24 hours. I saw that happen multiple times. Maybe this time it will be different.
( more on gun control )
2. ( books I've read )
3. Does anyone have any strategies (or recs for books, sites) for working through displaced anger, stress management, etc.?
4. Emma, Fiona and I got our hair cut yesterday. Emma had only gone six weeks since her last haircut, but it had grown a tremendous amount; we're going to have to go 4 weeks between cuts. We got her a dress she really likes (black with pockets) that isn't too feminine and fits her well. We also found a killer pair of dark wash jeans. I'm planning to take her shopping in a few weeks to look for a button down shirt and a blazer.
5. I decided instead of buying more books, I'm going to go through my bookshelves and read the books I've never read before (not too many of these, but Josh has bought some books over the years that I never picked up) and the ones I read years ago and don't remember well. If I haven't read it in the past three or four years, I'm probably going to read it. Currently reading The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (courtesy of an undergrad Brit Lit 1 class).
6. I am actually kinda sad that TV is about to come back. Gotham will be airing again soon and Walking Dead and the new season of Westworld. Right now, the only TV I'm watching is Lucifer and a rewatch of season 1 Westworld, and it's so freeing not to have every night scheduled with TV. Emma is also watching RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars which I watch a bit of with her, but I can't take much of that show. I find it super cringeworthy a lot of the time (like Chi Chi misspelling Maya Angelou's name this last week and clearly having no idea what she'd written). Ben De La is my favorite, though. If the show was just her + Shangela, I could watch it no prob. LOL
( more on gun control )
2. ( books I've read )
3. Does anyone have any strategies (or recs for books, sites) for working through displaced anger, stress management, etc.?
4. Emma, Fiona and I got our hair cut yesterday. Emma had only gone six weeks since her last haircut, but it had grown a tremendous amount; we're going to have to go 4 weeks between cuts. We got her a dress she really likes (black with pockets) that isn't too feminine and fits her well. We also found a killer pair of dark wash jeans. I'm planning to take her shopping in a few weeks to look for a button down shirt and a blazer.
5. I decided instead of buying more books, I'm going to go through my bookshelves and read the books I've never read before (not too many of these, but Josh has bought some books over the years that I never picked up) and the ones I read years ago and don't remember well. If I haven't read it in the past three or four years, I'm probably going to read it. Currently reading The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (courtesy of an undergrad Brit Lit 1 class).
6. I am actually kinda sad that TV is about to come back. Gotham will be airing again soon and Walking Dead and the new season of Westworld. Right now, the only TV I'm watching is Lucifer and a rewatch of season 1 Westworld, and it's so freeing not to have every night scheduled with TV. Emma is also watching RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars which I watch a bit of with her, but I can't take much of that show. I find it super cringeworthy a lot of the time (like Chi Chi misspelling Maya Angelou's name this last week and clearly having no idea what she'd written). Ben De La is my favorite, though. If the show was just her + Shangela, I could watch it no prob. LOL
