Woot! I have an in person interview on Monday!
Woohoo ita!
Is your cousin super tiny or is the dude super tall? Or both?
He totally hurt my feelings.
Aw. Yeah, that's gotta suck. And as sara said, who knows what that's about. Dang.
(Tim is discouraging me from crashing the party. He's no fun.)
I would try watermelon beer. It sounds gross, but I"m not really a beer drinker, so I like the fruit beers (strawberry abita, and a grapefruit hefe have been my drinking companions this summer). And I would be VERY tempted to play that song. Or possibly be like "Hey, can you keep it down? Your RACISM is keeping me awake".
So it just occurred to me (after my daily-this-week breakfast of coconut milk, chia seeds and pecans) that since I've tested as allergic to walnuts and almonds maybe I shouldn't make tree nuts in general quite so frequent a part of my diet.
-t, if you've been eating them for a week and haven't noticed any bad effects, maybe it's okay?
Well, I've been feeling bad all week, hard to say if that's why, though, because I was feeling bad last week, too. But could be contributing.
-t, I'd avoid the pecans if possible. Or at least not so frequently.
I told Noah he hurt my feelings pretty badly and it might take me a while to get over it. I also asked him why he said it, but he had no explanation. Blargh.
My swim today was slow, but still good. Hot in the pool.
I think that there is a danger with kids of assuming that the things they say when they are calm have a greater depth or fidelity or persistence than the things they say when they are upset.
We may like to think that our dispassionate self is more "true" of ourselves, but that doesn't mean it is true of kids. They are always trying ideas on for size, and calm or not, they just don't have the stable view of self and others that adults do.
For instance, one problem that crops up frequently in family therapy is that a skilled therapist can structure the situation so that the dialog between parents and kids will seem more mature and forthright than has ever been true before. It's a breakthrough! The parents are thrilled. For the parents it seems that everything discussed is now solved or dealt with, but for kids, no matter the degree to which they throw themselves into it at the time, it doesn't necessarily stay with them. They are highly responsive to the collaborative environment that was created, but it doesn't mean that they have the self-consistency and self-regulation to make it stick.
Parents find this very frustrating and interpret it as a betrayal. But it's really just that we overgeneralize from the more mature seeming behavior in the session to the assumption that the words have the same meaning that they would in a more mature human. Nah. Still a kid in there.
That's really interesting Rick!
How old are your twins now, by the way?
Aw, kids! They look like people, but are actually mostly animals.
