Wednesday is a new schedule for therapy
Jun. 18th, 2025 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutIt was in the morning instead of the evening, so it was a reason to get A. up and out the door. I walked with M. in the afternoon. I had a slightly abbreviated (started 15 minutes late to allow time to get home from therapy) conversation with J. It ended about a half an hour early because we ran out of things to talk about. Because he’s so tired all the time (and yes, I know I’m making excuses for him), he has very limited patience and cognitive capacity for the kinds of conversations I love like, How Does This Thing Work Anyway or How Is Our Society Changing or How Could We Bend the Curve of Our Society in a Better Direction. People like this kind of stuff very occasionally, and they get tired real quick, and aging isn’t helping any of us become more flexible. Priestess is actually getting more capable of it over time, which is an interesting contrast, and A. (both Bay Area A. and my daughter) is also a lot of fun to engage in this kind of thing with.
I’m trying to refocus on getting that kind of stuff written down, either here or elsewhere, rather than inflicting it on people who Just Aren’t That Into It. At first, with J., I was being really careful to make sure he got all the time he needed to talk about whatever he wanted to talk about at the beginning of the conversation. But he was still pretty cranky at intervals and honestly kind of rude. I thought about that for a while, and weighed whether and how to proceed, and I’ve decided to just not, which is more or less the approach I take with my sister as well. It’s working better, altho it is deeply hilarious when there are half-assed efforts made to get me to talk about something. I just deflect. It’s not like they are asking for the kind of thing I want to talk about. I mention whatever is going on in my daily life, and they aren’t necessarily interested in that, either. It does raise a lot of questions in my mind in terms of, what would the ideal conversation be for these conversational “partners”. Presumably they don’t know either?
J. from the builder provided a markup of the cover sheet for the electrical submittal — I had not done that, and it did need to be done. I further marked up what she did, and then it was really hard to get those markups transferred so I wound up taking screenshots. *shudder*
I got a second walk today! First time in a really long time. It was nice, and I’m going to try to do this more often.
I’m trying to refocus on getting that kind of stuff written down, either here or elsewhere, rather than inflicting it on people who Just Aren’t That Into It. At first, with J., I was being really careful to make sure he got all the time he needed to talk about whatever he wanted to talk about at the beginning of the conversation. But he was still pretty cranky at intervals and honestly kind of rude. I thought about that for a while, and weighed whether and how to proceed, and I’ve decided to just not, which is more or less the approach I take with my sister as well. It’s working better, altho it is deeply hilarious when there are half-assed efforts made to get me to talk about something. I just deflect. It’s not like they are asking for the kind of thing I want to talk about. I mention whatever is going on in my daily life, and they aren’t necessarily interested in that, either. It does raise a lot of questions in my mind in terms of, what would the ideal conversation be for these conversational “partners”. Presumably they don’t know either?
J. from the builder provided a markup of the cover sheet for the electrical submittal — I had not done that, and it did need to be done. I further marked up what she did, and then it was really hard to get those markups transferred so I wound up taking screenshots. *shudder*
I got a second walk today! First time in a really long time. It was nice, and I’m going to try to do this more often.