My geekiness is also rather wide-ranging but not as specific as Hec's and tommyrot's.

Although I am watching the Pete Seeger PBS show right now, and realize I know waaay too many folk songs for someone my age. My dad liked folk, but only certain groups. I actually reintroduced the Weavers to him; he'd forgetten about them since his middle-school years, but I've loved them since I first heard about them in college (FBI history class--we read an article about their blacklisting).

My non-fannish, non tv-watching uncle stopped while flipping channels to watch The Body because he was so mesmerised by how well it portrayed the feeling when a parent died.

That's an episode I can never have my mom watch--she came home one afternoon to find her husband dead on the couch from a heart attack, and it's too damn close to what she went through.

OK, this might be a bit geeky. I just learned about Baba Brinkman and his rapping Chaucer (thank you, Rachel Maddow!), and in trying to find him on Youtube, I stumbled across a rap of the opening of the Prologue of Canterbury Tales in Middle English. It really works, too!

My students love that! But they too have bits of the prologue memorized (that bit in fact). A small group went with a fellow teacher to England over spring break. When they were at Chaucer's grave, they actually spontaneously burst into recitation of that piece.

They are adorable.

tommy, DH has been involved with a few WWII aircraft museums and airshows for a while now. A P-51D ("Glamorous Gal") is part of Team Vandy-1, which is affiliated with the Wounded Warrior Project and what DH is currently working on/for.

MNFlaw, I meant to say that my local statioion had a piece on this in their newscast. I think it was picked up from ABC, but it was a good piece.

No empanadas at the market! Woe! But I got cukes, because I've been craving my grandmother's sweet pickles. And I'm impressed I got out since I didn't have fellow marketers today.

Well, now that you've made me realise they must have Batman bandaids.

of course they do. We have at least 2 boxes. I think most of the major superheroes have band-aids, in fact.

mac has been up since before 6. Did he get himself any food? Within 10 min of me being up and out in the livingroom he goes and gets himself something. sigh.

He refused to go to bed last night. again. so I went to bed before 10 and have no idea what he did. expect to find a mess in his room today.

How old is Mac again? Does he have ODD, or is he just afraid of missing out on something, or afraid of the dark?

(I'm curious, because I spent some time yesterday with my therapist, talking about bedtime habits as a child, and trying to track the onset of my insomnia.?

msbelle, the difference between mac and Noah is that if I expect to find a mess in his room it invovles poop.

My mom arrives on Sunday which is good and something. Maybe stressy. It's another person added into our cramped household.

Grace was also denied Social Security Disability benefits because my income is too high. I swear this is the experience wherein social conservatives are forged. I make too much by about $10,000 if you exlude my health insurance to let my disabled daughter receive benefits. But if I were to start working part time or quit my job, then the state would pay for all of her health issues (and some of Noah's too) her freaking $1000/month formula, her $250/month in medications, and her diapers and everything else. But because I have a job, like the government hopes people will and I have private insurance, like the government hopes people will, Grace gets no assistance from the federal government at all and I'm afraid she will be booted from Medi-Cal which means no nursing and no supplies paid for.

Oof. I'm sitting here crying again.

This is useless to complain about.

Mine involves a wet bed, so it's not all just toys and books thrown about.

He is afraid of the dark. ODD? He is not ADD although he presents as such at times. He is high anxiety (like PTSD) with a very small Attachment Disorder that frames itself as defiance mostly.

ODD is Oppositional Defiant Disorder. I'm not sure what age it's diagnosed.

Ah, afraid of the dark. That's a scary one. I remember being afraid the devil would come through the springs in the bed and do bad things.