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Wednesday: starting way too early
Nov. 15th, 2023 08:15 amAnd honestly, poorly defined transition from the night before. When I forget to feed the sourdough until around midnight, I frequently wind up puttering in the kitchen until close to 1 am, emptying the dishwasher, filling the electric kettle and so forth. So that happened. I got to sleep, and then A. came in around 4:15 a.m. complaining about her right eye feeling weird. That is _super_ unusual. A disturbing number of times that she gets up in the middle of the night (like, between 2 and 6 am) over the years have resulted in vomit cleanup or a trip to the ER followed by surgery in the case of the appendicitis thing.
No vomiting, but I’m thinking oh, please not conjunctivitis because antibiotics are horrible and it is so transmissible it could really mess us all up for a week. No discharge, pinkness similar in both lower eyelids, not itchy. Some puffiness. I had intended to give her a zyrtec because she sounded a little stuffed up, and there’s a lot of wood smoke in the air again because it has gotten cold at night finally, and then forgot. I gave her the zyrtec and cold, wet wash cloth to put over her eye and she felt better and went back to bed. It seems to have worked, but of course getting her up this morning was difficult, and I wound up sending T. in by himself so he wouldn’t be late and dropped her off maybe 45 seconds past start time. We don’t really care whether she gets a tardy; she’s mostly sad to have missed hanging out with her friend before school but she’ll see that friend in her first period today.
I had thought I would go back to bed, but obviously, I am now wide awake. In good news, the counters are clean, because I had some time waiting for A. to finish breakfast and brushing her teeth.
Unrelated: yesterday, I was looking at where Sidon was on a map, and noticed that there is a soap museum there that looks really cool. And then I asked, hey, I wonder when soap was invented? Oh boy. Define soap, apparently, is part of it.
I’ve also been working my way through this:
https://www.persee.fr/doc/mom_0766-0510_1988_sem_16_1_2101
Which I am really on the fence about. In a variety of ways, it isn’t very good (for something about pre-Islamic routes through the Sahara, there’s an awful lot of British folks from the colonial era being quoted) but in other ways, it’s quite impressive. It’s at least an interesting way to try to make sense of what I was listening to on You’re Dead to Me about Ibn-Battuta (Islamic era traveler of great renown).
No vomiting, but I’m thinking oh, please not conjunctivitis because antibiotics are horrible and it is so transmissible it could really mess us all up for a week. No discharge, pinkness similar in both lower eyelids, not itchy. Some puffiness. I had intended to give her a zyrtec because she sounded a little stuffed up, and there’s a lot of wood smoke in the air again because it has gotten cold at night finally, and then forgot. I gave her the zyrtec and cold, wet wash cloth to put over her eye and she felt better and went back to bed. It seems to have worked, but of course getting her up this morning was difficult, and I wound up sending T. in by himself so he wouldn’t be late and dropped her off maybe 45 seconds past start time. We don’t really care whether she gets a tardy; she’s mostly sad to have missed hanging out with her friend before school but she’ll see that friend in her first period today.
I had thought I would go back to bed, but obviously, I am now wide awake. In good news, the counters are clean, because I had some time waiting for A. to finish breakfast and brushing her teeth.
Unrelated: yesterday, I was looking at where Sidon was on a map, and noticed that there is a soap museum there that looks really cool. And then I asked, hey, I wonder when soap was invented? Oh boy. Define soap, apparently, is part of it.
I’ve also been working my way through this:
https://www.persee.fr/doc/mom_0766-0510_1988_sem_16_1_2101
Which I am really on the fence about. In a variety of ways, it isn’t very good (for something about pre-Islamic routes through the Sahara, there’s an awful lot of British folks from the colonial era being quoted) but in other ways, it’s quite impressive. It’s at least an interesting way to try to make sense of what I was listening to on You’re Dead to Me about Ibn-Battuta (Islamic era traveler of great renown).