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First of May in ASL
May. 3rd, 2009 10:08 amAdorable kids (okay, they're probably adults, but I'm getting old and they look like kids to me) signing Jonathan Coulton's "First of May", not safe for work in any fashion, but utterly adorable.
May. 3rd, 2009
1) It was very fun making a watermelon basket full of fruit salad for a party yesterday, and the birthday girl's reaction was the best part.
2) I learned some things about myself yesterday that I think I knew already, but hadn't quite articulated. For one thing, I never ever expect people to be mean to me, and when they are, it throws me off, and suddenly someone whose opinion doesn't really matter to me on a regular day becomes able to really hurt me. I got over it quickly, but it threw me off for a while. The parallels to the years I spent with my first wife feeling emotionally off-kilter are stunning. The thing that helped me most was to remind myself of where the person lies in my emotional constellation. Once I could get a grip on that, things were better. I don't suppose that would have helped with my first wife, but she was the sun and moon to me, so while the feeling is similar, I couldn't have brushed her meanness off as not mattering. And no, I don't feel like talking about the details. The incident was very minor, and what counts is what I learned from it.
3) I am back to being horrifically behind on the magazine stuff (both email and layout) and will probably declare next weekend (a three-day weekend) as Leave Me Alone I'm Working weekend. I want to visit with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stonebender and tend my poor achy head today, so I'm giving myself a sick day today.
2) I learned some things about myself yesterday that I think I knew already, but hadn't quite articulated. For one thing, I never ever expect people to be mean to me, and when they are, it throws me off, and suddenly someone whose opinion doesn't really matter to me on a regular day becomes able to really hurt me. I got over it quickly, but it threw me off for a while. The parallels to the years I spent with my first wife feeling emotionally off-kilter are stunning. The thing that helped me most was to remind myself of where the person lies in my emotional constellation. Once I could get a grip on that, things were better. I don't suppose that would have helped with my first wife, but she was the sun and moon to me, so while the feeling is similar, I couldn't have brushed her meanness off as not mattering. And no, I don't feel like talking about the details. The incident was very minor, and what counts is what I learned from it.
3) I am back to being horrifically behind on the magazine stuff (both email and layout) and will probably declare next weekend (a three-day weekend) as Leave Me Alone I'm Working weekend. I want to visit with
stonebender and tend my poor achy head today, so I'm giving myself a sick day today.