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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Sep. 13th, 2016 11:36 pmI went to work yesterday. The students were discussing the first reading - or more accurately, I was asking them questions trying to get them to read closely and think about details of the text, of who the authors are and who is the intended audience of the reading. The second class has more kids willing to talk, which makes a better discussion.
As my second class was over and I checked my phone, I had a message from the lawyer - the Recognition Agreement finally, finally came in. I texted Bear to go pick it up and we handed the rest of the required paperwork to the broker yesterday so she could turn in our to the management. Next step, the board. At least there is progress. This whole buying an apartment process is so slow.
Bear has Mondays off (he left for his work session today and will be gone until Saturday evening - this is his schedule during most weeks of the semester), so he was with Tanya all day. He no longer really dreads sole responsibility, which is great. They had a good time and she ate well but Bear couldn't get her to nap. So I put her to bed at 7:30pm and she was asleep in seconds. She did wake up an hour later and was crying for me, so I went to bed (she sleeps with me) and was reading my Kindle, thinking I would wait for her to fall asleep deeply again and sneak out to the living room and work on my story or spend some time with Bear. But I was super tired and just ended up falling asleep. I guess I needed it.
Today Bear left at 10:30, so I had time this morning to read some more and to clean the bathroom. We went to the playground together and I was glad Bear was with us since the elevator wasn't working today. We live on the 5th floor (with it technically the 6th, since there is a ground floor too). It's actually easier to go up the stairs, since Tanya can climb up herself while I carry the stroller but I have to carry her on the way down too, landing by landing, since I don't want her to fall.
In the afternoon, Tanya and I went to the post office (I got Star Trek stamps!), bank and the fruit and vegetable store for some grapes and peppers. And more playground. There was a little dog in the post office, on the line right in front of us, so Tanya was entertained. It is not a child to stay still, so it's good to have good distractions to prevent her from running around all over the place.
I finished Uprooted by Naomi Novik today. I started out being a little uncertain about this book, because the main character was a little too naive, and I was one step ahead at least 5 times, but then she was a 17 year old girl, so I gave her some slack. But as the book progressed, from one action to the next, as the stakes got higher and higher, and body count grew, and the plot thickened, I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next. By the end I was really enjoying the story. I liked the romance, mostly because it was understated and not really the plot of the book. The main male character is very Snape like at times, which is good in my book. And I like the growth of the protagonist. And the secondary characters. No one was truly evil, there were circumstances to everything, and complexity to characters. I liked the emphasis on the horrors of war, although it got a little too much. So the book grew on me and I'm glad I read it.
As my second class was over and I checked my phone, I had a message from the lawyer - the Recognition Agreement finally, finally came in. I texted Bear to go pick it up and we handed the rest of the required paperwork to the broker yesterday so she could turn in our to the management. Next step, the board. At least there is progress. This whole buying an apartment process is so slow.
Bear has Mondays off (he left for his work session today and will be gone until Saturday evening - this is his schedule during most weeks of the semester), so he was with Tanya all day. He no longer really dreads sole responsibility, which is great. They had a good time and she ate well but Bear couldn't get her to nap. So I put her to bed at 7:30pm and she was asleep in seconds. She did wake up an hour later and was crying for me, so I went to bed (she sleeps with me) and was reading my Kindle, thinking I would wait for her to fall asleep deeply again and sneak out to the living room and work on my story or spend some time with Bear. But I was super tired and just ended up falling asleep. I guess I needed it.
Today Bear left at 10:30, so I had time this morning to read some more and to clean the bathroom. We went to the playground together and I was glad Bear was with us since the elevator wasn't working today. We live on the 5th floor (with it technically the 6th, since there is a ground floor too). It's actually easier to go up the stairs, since Tanya can climb up herself while I carry the stroller but I have to carry her on the way down too, landing by landing, since I don't want her to fall.
In the afternoon, Tanya and I went to the post office (I got Star Trek stamps!), bank and the fruit and vegetable store for some grapes and peppers. And more playground. There was a little dog in the post office, on the line right in front of us, so Tanya was entertained. It is not a child to stay still, so it's good to have good distractions to prevent her from running around all over the place.
I finished Uprooted by Naomi Novik today. I started out being a little uncertain about this book, because the main character was a little too naive, and I was one step ahead at least 5 times, but then she was a 17 year old girl, so I gave her some slack. But as the book progressed, from one action to the next, as the stakes got higher and higher, and body count grew, and the plot thickened, I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next. By the end I was really enjoying the story. I liked the romance, mostly because it was understated and not really the plot of the book. The main male character is very Snape like at times, which is good in my book. And I like the growth of the protagonist. And the secondary characters. No one was truly evil, there were circumstances to everything, and complexity to characters. I liked the emphasis on the horrors of war, although it got a little too much. So the book grew on me and I'm glad I read it.
