Thanks for the suggestions, Kat and Matt.

Coming to see me?

Of course! I'm looking at the 1st week of August, FYI.

Getting a pedicure and the TVs are set to Nascar and basketball. I convinced CJ to get his first pedicure. He wasn't thrillEd with the idea but he called his girlfriend and she said he should. Will be interested in his reaction when we are done.

I'm looking at the 1st week of August, FYI.

AWESOME!

I'm watching the HBO movie about the Clarence Thomas hearings, and it is harrowing. But I'm really enjoying seeing all my favorite 90s news people! I used to watch a lot of news/political shows in the 90s.

Congrats Suzi and good planning on the self-care - A+ adulting.

I am sorry about the girl meara, you deserve better.

Sara, I wish I was there too, I have been wanting to do some serious shopping, but I need nothing and do not want to spend money, so I need to find other people to go shopping with.

I semi-adulted today, I go my car inspection done. I am a day late, so MUST go get the registration tomorrow. I do NOT need a ticket for dumbness.

The child would not get up today so he had no wifi until after 2ish. I am not sure why I am still going to church, I do not believe much and it is draining, no close friends even there anymore, so unless the parents are there (I thought they were back from a trip, but they did not get back until after church) it does nothing for me. Of course, not going when they are here will be a WHOLE THING. I think I will see if I can find a yoga studio with sunday classes or maybe start walking longer distances just on my own each Sunday, maybe 3-5 miles. I need something that leaves me feeling better - the prayer/thought/whatever I put out there today during service was 'please let mac stop being such a selfish asshole and help me to stop referring to my kid as an asshole'. I think I can do better than that.

Oh, girl. Could you go looking for another church? I mean, not that you have to go to church, OBVIOUSLY, but it can be such a great source of community.

Jesse, did you hear the amazing NPR Politics podcast interview with Nina Totenberg (who broke the Hill case in 1991)? I cannot recommend it highly enough. They interviewed her in response to the miniseries coming out, and it's one of the best examples of the importance of dedicated, ethical journalism I've ever heard — not only in terms of how Totenberg's reporting changed the conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace in the US, but also as a model of unbiased journalism. She's one of my heroes.

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I could, but ugh why if I don't wanna do any bible stuff? I dunno.

Finished my third and final concert. I refuse to adult any more this weekend. Not that there's too much of it left.

My resolution for this week: catching up here more.

Today I gruntled some passengers -- first it was two Brandeis guys who were very patient about me finding them, because they were on what looked like an obscure access road on the campus. Plus, the road away from their dorm access looked for all the world like a steep paved path.

They were good kids and were actually kind of embarrassed they hadn't thought how hard it would be to find them. (It DOES help I'm old enough to be their mother.) Then -- they'd put the wrong liquor store location into the GPS, so we had a really weird route, with them saying "Oh, no, it's much easier if you turn here," and the GPS kept trying to get us turned around, like four or five turns, until they checked the address we were actually headed to, and fixed it.

The drive back from the liquor store was half as long as the ride out AND they insisted I let them out at the stairs down to their door.

(Me, as we're negotiating the steep pin-turns through the Brandeis campus: "Let's build the college on the hill, they said. It'll be FUN, they said." The kids DID laugh, btw.)