I Just Want One Ordinary Day
Jul. 16th, 2013 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI had such a nice routine going during the regular school term. Get the kids off to school. Take care of a few things around the house. Walk with my friend M., and then visit for a bit. Talk to my friend R. Have lunch, tackle something that might take a couple hours. Kids start arriving home.
As a result of unusual activities on my side and others (Thursday morning visit and lunch with H., Friday at Readercon, M. got a haircut on Monday, I had a school meeting today), and the new school session, I just cannot seem to get back into a groove. That plus everything requiring a half dozen e-mails/text messages/phone calls to reschedule, which I just don't do well with.
In the meantime, I'm catching up on what I can, and trying not to go completely nuts. It was super easy getting through the backlog of snail mail -- but catching up on what was in my email was significantly more work. There's a certain amount of underlying commitments and I just moved it from paper to electronic. Ah, well.
In today's useless email, Honda wants to tell me about the 2014 Odyssey Touring edition, which has a built in vacuum system. _Really_. I have to say, I think Honda pays an amazing amount of attention to the desires, stated and otherwise, of their customers. I just don't necessarily want the Touring Edition. But that built in vac? Tempting. Very, very tempting. I wonder how loud it is.
As a result of unusual activities on my side and others (Thursday morning visit and lunch with H., Friday at Readercon, M. got a haircut on Monday, I had a school meeting today), and the new school session, I just cannot seem to get back into a groove. That plus everything requiring a half dozen e-mails/text messages/phone calls to reschedule, which I just don't do well with.
In the meantime, I'm catching up on what I can, and trying not to go completely nuts. It was super easy getting through the backlog of snail mail -- but catching up on what was in my email was significantly more work. There's a certain amount of underlying commitments and I just moved it from paper to electronic. Ah, well.
In today's useless email, Honda wants to tell me about the 2014 Odyssey Touring edition, which has a built in vacuum system. _Really_. I have to say, I think Honda pays an amazing amount of attention to the desires, stated and otherwise, of their customers. I just don't necessarily want the Touring Edition. But that built in vac? Tempting. Very, very tempting. I wonder how loud it is.
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Re: funny!
Date: 2013-07-17 05:01 am (UTC)Incidentally, the first scary Shirley Jackson I read took me TOTALLY by surprise, because I had only ever read her slightly fictionalized humorous memoirs about her kids (Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons), and was NOT expecting anything like that.
Jackson's daughter Sadie Damascus was at Readercon last year, per http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/896191.html