Today I am awash in conflicting emotions…
DESPAIR
My own carelessness has caused the death of an innocent USB cable…and now my most recent photographs are trapped on my camera FOREVER! Okay, they’re stuck on my SmartMedia card really, and only until I head to GNS for a replacement cable. But, but, but…I’m feeling lazy. No more fresh flickr-ing for me until tomorrow. Until then I’ll have to settle for being cheeky.
PREOCCUPATION
Rather than mailing in his open enrollment application, this morning I drove it over to the public charter school I mentioned recently. I have high hopes for this school, and I’m guessing they’ll be higher still after I go back next week for an information session and tour. But we won’t find out until some time in April whether or not the little man will be accepted. If there are more applicants than positions they have a lottery system to determine who will get lucky. And this little family has notoriously bad luck, and not much of a backup plan. So how nerve-wracking is that? Oy.
DISCOMPOSURE
Chuck brings up an interesting idea. I find it to be simultaneously intriguing and appalling. I’ll have to ponder this some more.
CONCERN
What is up with the little man’s cough? I quarantined him most of the weekend, not wanting him to spread his germs and hoping he’d recover. Which he did (recover, I mean), somewhat. But after the morning spent at school he now seems to be more ill than before. I wish he had the words to tell me how he’s really feeling. But at age five the routine with him isn’t much different than it’s ever been. Worry. Whip out the thermometer. Wait.
DISCOMBOBULATION
Now I totally feel like crap, like I’m coming down with something. Maybe I shouldn’t have listened to Midday today, with their guest Michael Osterholm (director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy).
ANTICIPATION
I am eagerly awaiting Friday for a few reasons. First, the weekend will be upon us, which means it’ll be time for the husband and I to run away to Madison together for a couple of days. And secondly, I am wondering just what the heck Mr. Barrett Chase is about to unleash. I’ll be staying tuned. Or something.
ELATION
My package just arrived from microindie records. More on that later.
Bonus: When I was enduring the insomnia last night I whiled away some time over at Vimeo (sort of like a flickr for video). I could totally get hooked on that. In fact, I was thinking of posting some clips over there (when they are out of closed beta mode) as my digital SLR captures 30-second quicktime movies, but the compression is crappy and I don’t have any video editing software - suggestions anyone?
