Done yesterday (20110220 Mo)

[mdlbear]

Yesterday was a pretty good day, despite some setbacks. I got a little "carpentry" done in the morning, making a back-spacer for Colleen's recliner to keep it the right distance from the bookshelves. The necessary 30" looked shockingly far, but was of course exactly right. I had measured it, after all.

Then we went up to San Francisco, to visit the DeYoung Museum, which the YD wants for her art history class. She is, finally, getting interested in going to museums. Naturally, the DeYoung is closed on Mondays, never mind the fact that it's a holiday. Headdesk. Fortunately, the California Academy of Sciences is right next door (ok, across the concourse, but in any case close enough). It turns out that the YD had never been to a planetarium! Never been interested in going, before, but she loved it.

I managed to lose the parking-lot ticket, so it cost $25 for parking. In addition to making me feel particularly stupid for having put the ticket in the same pocket as my phone.

We took Highway 1 down to Half Moon Bay; a pleasant drive that we don't do very often. There's a fish market just after the turn onto 92, where I picked up some ahi tuna, which we had as sashimi for a late lunch when we got home. The guy at the counter also sold me three more chunks, at a reduced price, which I'd been planning to use for dinner. When dinner time came, though, they tasted "off" and didn't smell all that good; I dumped them and made sausages instead.

I spent the rest of the evening kind of zoned out and apathetic, though I did do some more reading in The Language of Emotions. It's fascinating, but difficult, and I can't tell whether it's just my alexithymia making it difficult, or whether it's totally bogus. One of the things I'm having trouble with is her notion of "boundaries", which is absolutely central to to all of the visualization work the book is based on. She actually equates it with "aura". It doesn't seem to be all that closely related to what Wikipedia says about "personal boundaries":

Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify for him- or herself what are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around him or her and how he or she will respond when someone steps outside those limits.

... which it also distinguishes from "personal space". And McLaren doesn't. So...

I understand personal space, sort of, I think, but either version of "personal boundaries" seems to be a concept I have trouble grasping. That probably needs to be a full-bore River post at some point.

0220 Mo
  = holiday
  * up 7:06; W=192.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes
  @ siliconshaman | Hmmm....
  @ The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal @lysana
  @ Analytic Chemist Needed « Mimi and Eunice  gluten in soy sauce? no.
  @ Windows 8 and the disappearance of the Start button 
  * add DNS for ij1 (the YD's Canon printer) 232 (ij0 is 231)
  * make back spacer for C's new chair
    back needs to be ~30" from the wall; maybe 24" from the shelves.  A 30"
    frame of 2x4's would work fine, or -> a 1x6 with 30" "legs"
  ~ we are, apparently, going to the DeYoung.  Which of course is closed on
    Mondays.  Went to the Academy of Sciences instead, which we all enjoyed
    anyway.  Planetarium!  Digital; omnimax screen.  Aquarium!  Bought a
    collapsible backpack to stuff my jacket into (and because I've been
    looking for one).  Somewhere along the way I lost my parking ticket and
    had to pay $25 to get out.  :(
  & went down Hwy 1 to Half Moon Bay; stopped at the fish market and got ahi.
    Rather a lot of ahi.
  * food so far this evening:  tuna sashimi with sake,... guacamole,...
    couscous, asparagus, sausage (the second batch of ahi was bad.  ick.)
  % 9pm apathetic
  : The stuff in The Language of Emotions about one's "boundary" is really
    baffling.  Wikipedia says: 
    " Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person
      creates to identify for him- or herself what are reasonable, safe and
      permissible ways for other people to behave around him or her and how he
      or she will respond when someone steps outside those limits. 
    McLaren has this newagy aura thing that's a visualization of something
    _she_ calls boundaries, but I have no idea whether the two have any
    relationship to one another... and I don't have a really clear idea about
    the meaning of either.  McLaren would no doubt say that my boundary is in
    some kind of disrepair.  ???

Comments

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Yeah the wikipedia quote sounds reasonable but that doesn't mean it's the only way to define the concept... I'd have to see what the author is saying to judge and it'd still be *my* definition and maybe not someone else's. *sigh* it's never easy, is it.

Oh yes, planetariums. Brings back happy, happy, happy memories of many childhood weekends spent there!

[mdlbear]

Nope.

I want to take her to the two local planetariums now -- last time I looked they still had the old-style projectors. This one was a modern digital setup. Which is cool, but not the same.