requiem for a missing agenda
Oct. 23rd, 2004 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojBusy day. Justin's ballet and grocery shopping and cleaning and doing some Law Review and ADR work and D&D and dinner at Guy's and going through my mom's clothes. It's odd, being in her house. She's everywhere. And it's really hard going through her things, knowing that's all that's left of her now.
Tomorrow looks like a good day to maybe try to get more work done on the Review, and finish off Daniel's costume. Oh, and maybe send some e-mails re. our EnvLaw 'mock Kyoto' activity.
Very upsetting thing happened this week: I lost my agenda. I feel utterly rootless. I'm a person who very much needs to know what's going to happen with my day/week/month, so I can plan accordingly. I'm on low-grade freakout mode.
I'm also rather miffed to have lost it. I haven't actually lost an agenda/journal since I started keeping one, back in 93. It's not that big a deal in terms of journal type stuff - I've kept my journal online since starting lj - but still. I have a few things in there that I hadn't written on lj. Like, for example, our last camping trip. And all the nice stuff Justin's teacher said about him. And a few other things I can't think of right now.
So, just in case I never do find the bloody thing, here's what I can remember of those entries.
It was freezing. We nearly died the first morning, trying to get warm by the fire, but like so many mishaps it ended up being a blessing in disguise. We all cuddled up close to the fire for a really long time, one kid on each lap - or, as Daniel put it, "One warm teddy bear for each parent." Told stories and sang a little and just generally bonded.
We also had an amazing hike through real hiking territory: from the Charleston Lake website) In addition to the rugged and ancient Precambrian rock of the Canadian Shield, the main peninsula of the park is primarily a younger, flat-lying sandstone plateau, from which unique caverns and rock overhangs were formed. This unique mix of older, Precambrian rock and younger sandstone makes Charleston Lake a geologically intriguing and picturesque landscape.
Although intriguing and picturesque makes it sound like a cutesy little postcard. I much prefer "WAY cool!!" which is how the kids described the best trail. Rocks of all shapes & sizes, covered with different mosses, and child-size cavelets and tunnels galore. WAY cool.
We also had a hell of a fight, about canoeing (go figure), which ended around when Chris approached me and gently asked, "Are you ready to stop being a bitch now? Because I'm ready to stop being a bastard."
And we saw Todd & Susan & Turtle & Zany! Which was wonderful. It's so great to see them doing so much better than before. And Zany was talking up a little storm. Including "Zany go up! Go up rocks!" and "Ta-da!" and "Check it out, Mama!" and a 'you had to be there' gesture at the lake, followed
by "WATTA!"
***
Justin's teacher. Says he's doing extremely well. The only minor 'room for improvement' comment she made was that he often has to be told to not be so loud. Other than that, he's having fun, paying attention, is very quick and eager to learn, and is very well behaved.
Justin Bordes?
Huh.
I'm volunteering in his class next Tuesday morning. Should be interesting.
***
Totally different subject: well, I can't make this icon work. That many letters just can't fit in the square without becoming unintelligible or covering too much of the picture. I won't use it, but I still love it :)
Tomorrow looks like a good day to maybe try to get more work done on the Review, and finish off Daniel's costume. Oh, and maybe send some e-mails re. our EnvLaw 'mock Kyoto' activity.
Very upsetting thing happened this week: I lost my agenda. I feel utterly rootless. I'm a person who very much needs to know what's going to happen with my day/week/month, so I can plan accordingly. I'm on low-grade freakout mode.
I'm also rather miffed to have lost it. I haven't actually lost an agenda/journal since I started keeping one, back in 93. It's not that big a deal in terms of journal type stuff - I've kept my journal online since starting lj - but still. I have a few things in there that I hadn't written on lj. Like, for example, our last camping trip. And all the nice stuff Justin's teacher said about him. And a few other things I can't think of right now.
So, just in case I never do find the bloody thing, here's what I can remember of those entries.
It was freezing. We nearly died the first morning, trying to get warm by the fire, but like so many mishaps it ended up being a blessing in disguise. We all cuddled up close to the fire for a really long time, one kid on each lap - or, as Daniel put it, "One warm teddy bear for each parent." Told stories and sang a little and just generally bonded.
We also had an amazing hike through real hiking territory: from the Charleston Lake website) In addition to the rugged and ancient Precambrian rock of the Canadian Shield, the main peninsula of the park is primarily a younger, flat-lying sandstone plateau, from which unique caverns and rock overhangs were formed. This unique mix of older, Precambrian rock and younger sandstone makes Charleston Lake a geologically intriguing and picturesque landscape.
Although intriguing and picturesque makes it sound like a cutesy little postcard. I much prefer "WAY cool!!" which is how the kids described the best trail. Rocks of all shapes & sizes, covered with different mosses, and child-size cavelets and tunnels galore. WAY cool.
We also had a hell of a fight, about canoeing (go figure), which ended around when Chris approached me and gently asked, "Are you ready to stop being a bitch now? Because I'm ready to stop being a bastard."
And we saw Todd & Susan & Turtle & Zany! Which was wonderful. It's so great to see them doing so much better than before. And Zany was talking up a little storm. Including "Zany go up! Go up rocks!" and "Ta-da!" and "Check it out, Mama!" and a 'you had to be there' gesture at the lake, followed
by "WATTA!"
Justin's teacher. Says he's doing extremely well. The only minor 'room for improvement' comment she made was that he often has to be told to not be so loud. Other than that, he's having fun, paying attention, is very quick and eager to learn, and is very well behaved.
Justin Bordes?
Huh.
I'm volunteering in his class next Tuesday morning. Should be interesting.
Totally different subject: well, I can't make this icon work. That many letters just can't fit in the square without becoming unintelligible or covering too much of the picture. I won't use it, but I still love it :)
