Blue-Footed Musings

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but 41% of small business owners who own a dragon have a vacation home in either Alabama or Mississippi. I dreamed about this statistic and awoke with understanding that I needed to share it with the world. I wasn’t ready to get out of bed yet, so I burrowed back into the sheets but told myself not to fall asleep again. I fell back asleep, though, and dreamed again about the 41% of small business owners with their dragons and vacation homes in Alabama and Mississippi. Clearly it was important, so I did not forget, and now I have fulfilled my dream mission of sharing this vital information with the world. Do with it what you will.

In a strange and sudden turnaround, the school committee voted for all students to start the school year with distance learning. This vote did not affect me, so it made me neither glad nor angry, just surprised. I watched the video of the meeting, because I was curious. I listened to the reasons given, and it seemed that they had acted out of genuine concern for everyone’s health and well-being. Other townspeople were angry, though, and they accused the committee members of lying, among other things.

I am sorry that my fellow townspeople had their choice taken from them. I understand their anger. Still, I wish they would be a little kinder and more understanding toward the school committee. This was a life-or-death decision, and I’m sure it weighed heavily upon the committee members, and still does.

This was a three-deadline week for me. It wore me out. But, having gotten through it, now my work life will be easy sailing for several weeks. I’ll once again have the freedom to work on anything I please and that’s exactly what I need.

Our school system ultimately decided to offer a distance learning option that includes teachers. I hope it will turn out to be a good one, because we enrolled today. We are now committed to it for the remainder of this calendar year, regardless of whether or not in-person school resumes in September.

Tonight we watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was better than I remembered it being. The kids were both excited to see BB-8 again. (Do they ever love that droid! R2-D2 is chopped liver to them.) We will probably watch The Last Jedi next. I saw that one a few times on Netflix, so I wouldn’t mind skipping it, but the kids could probably use the recap. And then (finally!) we’ll watch The Rise of Skywalker. It’s the only one I haven’t seen yet. The kids still haven’t seen the prequels, though, so maybe if we’re not all totally burnt out on Star Wars, we’ll watch them later this year.

Getting out of bed in the morning is not on my daily to-do list. There are times when I think it ought to be, though. It’s so hard to drag myself out of bed these days that I feel like I deserve some sort of reward for it, even if it’s just the small satisfaction of checking an item off a list.