After Two Steps Forward, One Back



I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Mood: discouraged.

The step backward was in the form of the video game DragonQuest VIII, which Younger Son, curse him, brought into the house. While I usually avoid long play-time games like the infinite time sinks they are, both Younger Son and I have an inordinate fondness for the Dragon Quest series...

I don't want to think about how much of my time has disappeared down that particular black hole in the last two days. Even if I'm not playing it, if I wander past the TV while YS is playing I'll stop what I'm doing and become entranced by a battle or a plot point... and it's not like I can avoid the living room in a small apartment. Gack.

Other time sinks: Younger Son got a temporary job. This, on the whole, is a Good Thing, and I am glad he'll be able to pay for his own college tuition and books and maybe even contribute financially to the household. Unfortunately, he doesn't drive and getting places in LA by public transport involves much planning; planning he didn't have enough warning for (see DragonQuest VIII). So, I drove him and picked him up yesterday. Not good.

And while some positive things are continuing with ADHD amelioration (like improved diet and sleep patterns, at least on my part) YS and I have both punted the v. frustrating exercises. And positive things that have happened (like textbook review, below) have not been the things that I planned to do. So, following my decades of training, I'm looking on the dark side rather than the bright. I look at my shattered plan, and my thoughts go: "Oh no oh no, how will I ever make up the time? I've got all these commitments, I don't have time to make up two days...." And then all I really want to do is anything except what I'd originally planned to do, or any part thereof.

Someone talk me out of it. Please.

On the job front, I picked up many of my old math and physics texts from Hubby's house. I started reading... I vaguely remember having actually passed exams in this stuff. Not what I did to pass them, mind you, just that I did. Still, I plowed through the first three chapters of the physics text. Vector algebra, yeah, I'm ok with that... but then I got to Chapter Four. Velocity derivatives??

Maybe I can pick up "Calculus and Physics for Dummies."


Posted: Sun - January 29, 2006 at 06:26 AM   | | | | |

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