Rusty

This just feels like the wrong timeline. On many levels.

Sleep is one of my favorite things. While it always has been, these days it's because 1) dreams 2) I wake up feeling rested - at least for a little while 3) I don't feel nauseous, get body chills or tired when I'm asleep. The dreams themselves have been diverse lately. Pineapples growing on top of the house, taking a packed plane to the "town hall of Alaska" (whatever that is?) as part of going to the state fair and running into people I knew from preschool teaching. One kid was climbing high on a sign suspended at the top of a hangar and the sign fell. Don't worry they weren't injured, though.

We're three days into Halloween (?) movie fest 2025 and have so far watched Spirited Away, Addam's Family Values, and The House With a Clock In Its Walls.

Fieldwork is still going okay! Most of the sessions I've conducted this week have been fun, and documentation is a lot less laborious under the system they have at the clinic - and there's been enough downtime for me to work on a student project I'm working on with M. She's someone in my cohort who's at the same placement. It's been nice having a familiar face around. And work with!

S texted on Thursday saying he'd been asked to leave town again. This is surprising because we'd discussed leaving town previously as absolutely not being an option; it ended up being that he just needed to talk it through a little before coming to the conclusion that no, that's not a good idea no matter how much extra money it is. Maybe I'll regret the decision, but we've already had talks about how if there's going to be a new kid he definitely needs to help more because there are very hard limits as to how much I can do - especially in the first trimester. And so far he's taken over grocery shopping and occasional dishes which has been very helpful.

I think at one point during the conversation I said, "Well, plus you were supposed to take over dropping L off at school at some point." And he was like, "Oh, yeah." And...it's not that I can't. It's more that I need to know that he'll do what he's said he'll do. Everybody needs that. Anyway, ultimately he told his company he wouldn't be able to go. So that's that until next time.