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I thought the beginning of school would bring peace and reason in the wake of Entropic August but mostly I feel as if my head is spinning and I'm much much too caught up in election worry not to feel distracted.
At the moment I'm feeling loopy, angry and guilty: loopy for not-enough-sleep reasons, angry for not being productive enough, and guilty for being angry at someone whose family life is interrupting an area of my professional existence. This last one is so uncomfortable for me, I can barely mention it because I should understand better than any one what it is like to have to put work obligations aside (or squash them into late nights and naptime scrambles) because child requirements are louder, more demanding, more important, more... more. (And I am the person who was so worried that being knocked up would result in my not being taken seriously, that I signed a contract and wrote a book without telling my editor I was pregnant until the moment I turned in the manuscript, which was the afternoon before I had the baby. I realize this was somewhat eccentric.) At any rate, I realize that the peevish part of me really ought to be more sympathetic to someone who is in a position remarkably similar to my own.
Anyway, I don't know what to do about this angry/guilty state except to try to reach for more work elsewhere which is, of course, tricky, given my own kiddie obligations. Hypocritical? Well, I never said my position wasn't intractable, did I?
In other developments, Felix has discovered rhyming, which is charming until one feels that one is trapped inside the pages of Fox in Socks at 6:30 in the morning.
And the jury is still in on not hitting children.
And, apparently PETA has asked that Ben & Jerry's consider swapping out the cow's milk in their ice cream for (human) breast milk, as one Swiss restaurant did for approximately 75% of its milk needs.
posted by Elise at 4:50 PM
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