That I mostly spent helping the boy study.
The morning was spent with my husband and on the phone with my mother, then there was a very Bavarian lunch:
That is Leberkäs and the potato salad has fresh arugula from our garden in it. Which meant spending ages picking all the bits out that you can’t eat like blades of grass, weeds and arugula blossoms.
I also knitted most of the right front on the striped cardigan only to find that I had made a mistake right at the beginning so I pulled that back and started over.
Then I spent a total of 3 1/2 hours asking the boy about quantum mechanics formulas, like several variations of the Schrödinger one and something Heisenberg. After a while I was very confused because I was so exhausted, so it turns out when you have to keep your mind on the task while someone else is giving you answers that are not quite what’s written in your notes but it’s still okay and you have to change terms around in your mind without forgetting any and sometimes substituting x for e throughout the formula because it’s really the same, that stuff can get a bit tiring.
I think I’m a little more understanding of my students squinting at sheet music trying to figure out what chord that is. (Though, to be fair, they usually get the exact same one in the exact same order we’ve been talking about for weeks just in a new piece but, well.)
I ate dinner somewhere in between and tried to get the boy to prioritize sleep over more cramming. His argument was that if he just got six hours of sleep in exchange for remembering five more formulas it would be worth it. My argument was that not getting five more formulas might be worth it not having a brain that was mush. Because he still has to think for his exam it’s not all learning by rote.
Anyways. When we were done with studying (and I have to say one thing that bugs me is that I’ve spent all these hours on this and I still don’t understand anything but then – quantum mechanics) it was time for me to get ready for bed.
I did my foot exercises, had a cup of tea, read and turned the lights out on time.
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