Glad you got your package, Ginger. Mysterious as the resolution remains.

Solved my dinner dilemma - fish and asparagus, already cooked, no chopping or slicing needed, perfectly fine eaten cold. Hooray! I meant to have wine with, but I forgot. I'll have an after dinner glass in a little while.

oh my god, the fights my dad and I had when he tried to help me with my math homework. oof.

When I was taking care of my brother's kids in May my nephew, who was in first grade, had homework. He just had a page of SUPER EASY (for him, not just for me) work that was complete torture to get him to do every evening. Fortunately the 8th grader was completely self-motivating and self-sufficient. I don't think I could have managed getting both of them through the week otherwise. Of course, she completely decompensated when her parents got home and burst into tears when they gave her a present from their trip. Why did they pick out such "ugly" tee-shirts for her? Did they not love her at all?!

Parenting is no joke!

From the Medical University of S.C. list [link] of ways to help acid reflux:

Raising the head of your bed may also help to counteract the loss of gravity that occurs from lying down.

I blame Rick for making my ovaries explode.

Loss of gravity?

I had no idea.

Eta I'm actually lying down right now. Don't feel any lighter.

Other than my dad trying to help with advanced math in HS (so fraught), I don't remember a lot of help with homework. I do remember my mom helping me prank people though.

The fraught times with my mom were over 4H projects, especially sewing. I accepted school as my job but sewing brought out the don't wanna.

Speaking of homework, I hope the Loyola students are burdened with it soon. It helps keep the neighborhood relatively quiet.

My friend showed up and we worked on the grant together, but that meant leaving poor Franny to finish up her homework on her own. And she wrote a paragraph for English that sort of failed to get the point of the book she's reading, so I skimmed the back of the book and figured out a few basic things about the setting, gave those pieces to her. Then she and her father printed it and DONE. Probably not very good, but good enough. Will have to do anyway.

Grant is coming together, but still has a lot of work left to do. Showed her how to work on it together in Google drive. She had never done it that way before but OMG makes collaboration so much easier.

I had to skip and skim this week, it's been insane. But it's the last week as a contractor--probably ever. Which is great. And also my kitchen looks awesome and the floors are going to be beautiful.

And tomorrow I fly to England! For three weeks! Of green rainy hills and wet feet and tiny English pubs and cream teas.

And when I come home, my kitchen will be done and I will start my new-old job.

So it's been a good month, and I wish I could share the good luck with people. I waft it towards all the Buffistas who need it. ::wafts gently::

Yay, England! Yay, good month. You totally deserve it.

So, man, band rehearsal was really good tonight. But the dude whose band it is brought this chick (who was totally awesome, no problem there) and I was all, wait, that's not the same chick as the one who came over to dinner that one time, right? Millennial dating life, man. I'm glad I'm not doing it.