Well, I just barely slept enough and then didn’t want to write morning pages again. I’ll get there eventually, I guess.
There was breakfast and crochet and talking with my husband about music theory and dominant seventh chords and how students don’t get that A7 doesn’t belong to the key of A and therefore doesn’t contain a G# (you had to be there). Because A7 belongs with the key of D. And then to make things more complicated when you’re playing blues every chord is a seventh chord and the rule doesn’t apply. Obvs.
I played silly games and did the breakfast dishes while my husband was digging in the garden and then I woke the boy too late so that he didn’t go to uni in the end. To make things better in the future I have now programmed my phone with a set of alarms half an hour later than the alarms on his phone so that if he doesn’t wake up from his alarm I can go wake him up and he can scramble and leave the house in time even if he overslept. I this this is a hereditary inability to hear alarms. The only other person in the family who has this is my mother who used to have to put her alarm clock on top of the wardrobe at the other end of the room when she still lived alone. My father and I (and I think my sister too but I’m not sure) are more the „jolt awake half an hour before the alarm“- kind of person.
I walked to the health food store and bought food. One of the store’s fridges is still broken so there was no bratwurst or mortadella. I did buy all the sweets, though.
Went back home and packed the groceries away, then actually opened the manuscript and proofread for fifteen minutes before grating some parmesan. We had pork cutlets à la pizzaiola with polenta:
After that I ate all the sweets I had bought while the boy looked up Chinese hand-cannons and early rifles. We had started talking about food and history over lunch, wondered since when there is such a thing as Germany (1871 but 1848 was important as well), meandered over to racism and why Europeans think they are superior, touched the question why colonialism, touched on steam engines, gun powder and that led the boy into a „did the Chinese invent the cannon and rifle“ rabbit hole. (The answer is yes but there were serious improvements made elsewhere. Also, steam engines, the Industrial Revolution and steel, I guess.) But really, I’m just trying to remember something I heard yesterday while playing a merge game.
Then it was time to teach all the students. I used a break between students to do a bit more on the Knitsonik Bullet Journal course, then there was dinner and more sweets because a student had given me a box of chocolates for a speedy recovery. I had this cute idea that I could just eat two chocolates per day until the box was empty.
Turns out, um, I couldn’t. I ate the whole box in one sitting until I felt rather nauseous, talked briefly with my husband again and told him there was soccer on TV in the evening, started writing this post, had the boy tell me about Warhammer again, made him do the dishes, did Duolingo, watched another episode of „Find Yourself“ while knitting and went to bed.
Today is a public holiday, so no teaching. I want to watch a live thing on Crowdcast in the afternoon and it would be really great if I could make myself work on the Stasia dress. I just realized that I don’t have any warm weather clothes at all, so I should either get myself to the sewing machine or buy something.