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Walk to End Alzheimer's
I know many of you have seen me post about this elsewhere, but this weekend, I'll be doing the local Walk to End Alzheimer's with my parents. As you may know, my father has younger-onset Alzheimer's disease. The Alzheimer's Association provides a ton of funding for research and advocacy around the disease, but I'm really walking for what they have ( Read more... ) -
falling behind on book reports
36. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell. Great! It's about the founders of Boston (and Cambridge, Rhode Island, etc.). She's so good -- it's wonderful to get a real feeling for all of these olde-tymey people, via her research and interpretation ( Read more... ) -
Let's think about the weekend!
Friday we're getting out of work early, and I'm going to walk home with a friend ( Read more... ) -
Food
I'm always a little behind on Fresh Air, so if you listen regularly, this will be old news to you...
I'm listening to the show with Alice Waters and of course I want to punch her in the face, which is partly her voice and manner, and not what she's saying. But part of it is what she's saying about they way people should eat and deal with food ( Read more... ) -
Things! Also stuff.
I have been Doing Things! And man, is it exhausting ( Read more... ) -
Social. Huh!
Thursday night, had book club. Book club! (See below.) I'm kind of on the fence about staying in it, because it's sort of too many people and I'm the worst at serious literary discussions, but I'm happy to have the prompt to read better stuff, and I guess who cares if I don't have any analysis? We'll see ( Read more... ) -
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Uneventful weekend, although I did go to the beach. Love the beach! I do a combination of listening to podcasts and reading, which makes for a good combination of lying down and sitting up. But when I went to get lunch (an excellent slice of pizza, although the crust could use more salt), I put the songs on shuffle, and what came out? "Welcome ( Read more... ) -
Day off!
Took a random day off today, and am excited! Am also trying to be strategic about my errands, hair cut, movie plan, because I feel like going out once and staying out is the best plan on this hottest day of the year ( Read more... ) -
Oh, that's better
Talked to my mother, and it was not bad, just a combination of things -- she had stuff she wanted to do at the house, it was hot for sleeping, and then she said to my father, Do you want to go home? And he did. So it's not like it was A Crisis, at least.
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uggggh
I just called my grandmother to check up and see about having dinner with her tomorrow, since my parents were supposed to be at some friends' lake house for the week. She told me they just came home, because my father was too disoriented not in his own home. UGH. (Granted, it's a second-hand story from a 92 year old, but it sounds about right.) ( Read more... )