Done yesterday (20090908)

[mdlbear]

0908 Tu
  * up 6:30; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  * buy briefs (Colleen now takes L), wipes
  | tightness across the chest; implies  ! anxiety
    Possibly about the upcoming ConChord trip
  & emptied Sidekick bag; moved strap to the new (smaller) bag.
  @ http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/
    http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Edited_Contributions
  * walk, just down to the pond and back
    ! still a little anxious, apparently.  C?
  * 2:30 Colleen: Dr. Ahn
  <- aha: I'm so used to having my words and actions misunderstood, that I
     feel an urgent need to keep explaining myself until I get a reaction that
     I can interpret as indicating understanding.
  & OK, why *am* I apologizing for a miscommunication between Emmy and
    Colleen?  (Maybe because I tried to help work it out but they both brushed
    off my questions.)
  * Nearly 2 hours' worth of singing and talking with Kat and N
    via speakerphone.
  @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon  Siegfried Sassoon
    http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/sassoon-siegfried/index.html
    (from IM with N)
  -> There are probably songs about growing old in my near future
  *- People I can talk with all night.  Colleen and I have had to learn to
     pace ourselves; when you're planning to spend the rest of your life with
     someone, you have time to sleep.

A good day. A walk, a couple of good insights, new meds for Colleen, music, conversation about poetry, music, and growing old... yeah. Good day.

I've already posted about the insight.

Naomi suggested that a lot of my free-floating anxiety (also see the Wikipedia article) may be due to the fact that I'm getting old, and starting to deal with a transition as unfamiliar and scary as becoming an adult in the first place. Yeah, there are probably some songs about growing old in my near future. They're my way of coming to terms with reality.

For today's link sausage we have Siegfried Sassoon -- a selection of his poems can be found here. He started out as one of the WWI poets, and later wrote about growing old. Detect a theme here?

Also, 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - it will eventually become a book; right now it's a wiki, with the list of edited contributions here.