{"id":415,"date":"2008-09-11T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/09\/on-my-mind\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:34:00","slug":"on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/on-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"On My Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is going on right now:
1) Thinking about 9\/11 and one of the best books written on the topic, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/span>, Jonathan Saffron Foeur. I can’t believe that really happened. And they took off from here. God help us all.<\/p>\n

2) Reading Getting Rid of Matthew, <\/span>by Jane Fallon. So-so so far.<\/p>\n

3 Glowing from the way my class went today. Such earnest, hard-working students, bright and friendly. I brought them Dunkin’ Munchkins for the midpoint break (why not? class is right during lunch and I’ll just bet a bunch of them haven’t eaten a thing, and this way I get more out of them.) I can’t believe how much I love teaching essay-writing. It is something I know intuitively and can do in my sleep; but teaching it, explicitly breaking down the components, is new, challenging, and exciting.<\/p>\n

4) Finished interviewing another autism parent, and got a lot of good material. It is very hard asking the questions I need to ask because they don’t really know me, and may find it hard to talk about difficult emotional things (unlike some people!)<\/p>\n

5) I just adore the turquoise blue lace top I bought this summer at Karol Richardson in Orleans, and it was the perfect temperature today to wear it.<\/p>\n

6) I had to walk to school to pick up Benj because Ned took my car (I really enjoyed it, because I ran into all sorts of school friends of mine who usually walk to school. I drive, because I’m a Primadonna). The Squirtle is officially in extremis<\/span>, nearly dead. He has 148,000 miles on him, a cat-shaped mark on the passenger door (from you-know-who) and now is growling because his muffler is falling off. But he’s not scary, because: he’s only a Squirtle 1994 Civic! So — Ned is buying a new car tonight! A Civic Hybrid. As he put it, “I want to be the change I want to see in the world.” My sweet, idealistic darling.<\/p>\n

7) I am surviving a detoxification. Very little caffeine, no sugar, only a tiny bit of of Splenda. I actually feel good!<\/p>\n

8) Ben is happy most of the time, knock on wood infinitely<\/p>\n

9) I made a new calendar for Nat so that he would never be confused again about where he sleeps and when.<\/p>\n

10) It is my former therapist’s birthday, which gives me something good to remember about 9\/11. She pretty much saved my life; I started seeing her when Nat was 2, so… I called her today to tell her I loved her, and thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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