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Took Grant to the train station an hour away.
Got Elise ready for, to and from preschool.
Acquired new semester parking decal, schoolbooks for classes that start tomorrow and information on scholarships I may be eligible for.
Paid electric bill.
Paid other bills.
Taking Bob and his girlfriend back to JobCorps with all her stuff (they stayed in Lakeland with my mother for the break) and cooking lunch now, before packing a food bag and taking kids to TLC....
I read this article as I stood in line awhile ago and it struck me as very profound (this is about rape and how girls are taught to be victimized)- http://www.utne.com/2005-01-01/betrayed-by-the-angel.aspx
My sister and I have talked together about the "freeze and panic internally" response we had to being molested, how it sucks, how we want our daughters to be able to stand up and say "Get your filthy hands off me, asshole!" This came up very recently for me with Annie (a minor situation where she was being made uncomfortable like the pencil jabbing in the story, and I was a fool and failed and chose to keep the peace as she got upset and kept still). We talked about it. I apologized. I argued with her when she said it was no big deal.
But yeah, Virginia Woolf is quoted in that article as saying "A phantom is far harder to kill than a reality". Yes.
Yes. I can't count the times I've mentally murdered Jud's ghost - he doesn't live in my head anymore, but he still comes around.
So that is germinating in my brain right now. Feel free to share, though I'm somewhat slow responding to comments at the moment.
Got Elise ready for, to and from preschool.
Acquired new semester parking decal, schoolbooks for classes that start tomorrow and information on scholarships I may be eligible for.
Paid electric bill.
Paid other bills.
Taking Bob and his girlfriend back to JobCorps with all her stuff (they stayed in Lakeland with my mother for the break) and cooking lunch now, before packing a food bag and taking kids to TLC....
I read this article as I stood in line awhile ago and it struck me as very profound (this is about rape and how girls are taught to be victimized)- http://www.utne.com/2005-01-01/betrayed-by-the-angel.aspx
My sister and I have talked together about the "freeze and panic internally" response we had to being molested, how it sucks, how we want our daughters to be able to stand up and say "Get your filthy hands off me, asshole!" This came up very recently for me with Annie (a minor situation where she was being made uncomfortable like the pencil jabbing in the story, and I was a fool and failed and chose to keep the peace as she got upset and kept still). We talked about it. I apologized. I argued with her when she said it was no big deal.
But yeah, Virginia Woolf is quoted in that article as saying "A phantom is far harder to kill than a reality". Yes.
Yes. I can't count the times I've mentally murdered Jud's ghost - he doesn't live in my head anymore, but he still comes around.
So that is germinating in my brain right now. Feel free to share, though I'm somewhat slow responding to comments at the moment.
