Day 15

[ktron]

Mindtalk is resisting HARD tonight on sitting down and writing.  Pushing through it, but this will likely be short.  I signed up for a beginner watercolor workshop a friend is teaching tomorrow... she's good, the price was right... I'm excited about getting to spend some of tomorrow in beginner mode... but I'm a little nervous about the logistics

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[rainerrobin]

That's a big feminist issue, the question of a woman's time. Women have been complaining about the devaluation of their time for about 200 years now. Men's work is "important," ours isn't, so our time is less valuable. Drives me batty. Especially since I've been trained to schedule my life around others.

[ktron]

yeah, since staying on task is so iffy for me anyway... it's hard to get upset about it.

BUT. there's a strong tension between being really attracted to Pavel's passion for his work and not enjoying finding myself on the losing end when he gets immersed. Last night it was most of half an hour waiting at a restaurant... the night before that, 45 minutes between when I got to his condo with dinner and when he got off the phone with a student's parent. In the past, I think I would've done more smoothing work about it being perfectly fine, but this week I've been letting him apologize, making a few jabs (like an "of course! I've been here... do you?" when the wait-staff asked if we knew what we wanted), and letting it drop.