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Dec. 14th, 2007 10:41 am1. Baby name (first grandchild of coworker): Christopher Wayne. Didn't anyone tell these parents that giving your son the middle name Wayne gives him a greater-than-average chance of growing up to be 1) a serial killer or 2) a guy who gets his penis cut off and reattached, and then becomes a one-hit-wonder porn actor? Sheesh, people, this stuff is important!
2. Sinus headache persists, a bit more on and off. I went home from work with it yesterday, when it wasn't responding to the combination of a full dose of extra strength tylenol plus a full dose of advil, and I wanted to cry. Very tired of this. Acute pain I can do; chronic, not so much.
3. Thinking a lot about Casper and her personality wrt school and behavior issues the last couple of days. It is helping me to understand her better to observe the way her personality is like mr. flea's - VERY negative reaction to someone who starts out authoritarian when such an attitude is unjustified. I think this is the main problem with Mrs. S. It's coming out as passive defiance, rather than active, which is also the way mr. flea tends to react. mr. flea is also bad at transitions - he gets deeply involved in tasks and doesn't task-hop at all well. It can take him days to gear up to working on a different section of his dissertation. I wonder if some of the dawdling we hear about in Mrs. B's class, and issues with other kids, has to do with transitions between tasks. The one thing I have most trouble understanding is her tendency to secrecy, doing things we've asked her not to do (like buy treats at lunch). mr. flea and I were both shockingly honest kids. I do think a fluid relationship with the truth is a normal developmental phase at age 4, but I wish I knew a little more about child development in this case.
4. Mother has gone to Baltimore, where her father is in the ICU. He had (mostly elective) surgery about a month ago, and this is his fourth trip back to the hospital, as one thing seems to be leading to another (the fix for problem A breaks system B). He's 85, and mother is now thinking that while he's not going to die imminently, this is probably going to do him in sooner rather than later. I'm not emotional about it - I don't have an emotional relationship with my grandfather. He can be a charming old bastard, but ultimately he's just an old bastard, and I have kept well out of any entanglement with him (despite living in his house for most of a year after college). But my mother has unresolved issues with him that are very unlikely to be resolved before he dies (even if he lives through this and dies in 15 years) and the chickens will be coming home to roost. So, some coping-ma for my mother would be a good thing.
2. Sinus headache persists, a bit more on and off. I went home from work with it yesterday, when it wasn't responding to the combination of a full dose of extra strength tylenol plus a full dose of advil, and I wanted to cry. Very tired of this. Acute pain I can do; chronic, not so much.
3. Thinking a lot about Casper and her personality wrt school and behavior issues the last couple of days. It is helping me to understand her better to observe the way her personality is like mr. flea's - VERY negative reaction to someone who starts out authoritarian when such an attitude is unjustified. I think this is the main problem with Mrs. S. It's coming out as passive defiance, rather than active, which is also the way mr. flea tends to react. mr. flea is also bad at transitions - he gets deeply involved in tasks and doesn't task-hop at all well. It can take him days to gear up to working on a different section of his dissertation. I wonder if some of the dawdling we hear about in Mrs. B's class, and issues with other kids, has to do with transitions between tasks. The one thing I have most trouble understanding is her tendency to secrecy, doing things we've asked her not to do (like buy treats at lunch). mr. flea and I were both shockingly honest kids. I do think a fluid relationship with the truth is a normal developmental phase at age 4, but I wish I knew a little more about child development in this case.
4. Mother has gone to Baltimore, where her father is in the ICU. He had (mostly elective) surgery about a month ago, and this is his fourth trip back to the hospital, as one thing seems to be leading to another (the fix for problem A breaks system B). He's 85, and mother is now thinking that while he's not going to die imminently, this is probably going to do him in sooner rather than later. I'm not emotional about it - I don't have an emotional relationship with my grandfather. He can be a charming old bastard, but ultimately he's just an old bastard, and I have kept well out of any entanglement with him (despite living in his house for most of a year after college). But my mother has unresolved issues with him that are very unlikely to be resolved before he dies (even if he lives through this and dies in 15 years) and the chickens will be coming home to roost. So, some coping-ma for my mother would be a good thing.
