Yay, people are sometimes awesome.

-t, what are you studying with iTunes U?

Not -t obviously but do you enjoy art history?

I promised myself I was going to be productive today.

I seem to have lied.

I read the hotel information book. What? That's what it's there for! I also look at the evacuation map. I KNOW! But that's the kind of person I am, right there.

So we can't afford to go anywhere for spring break, and we've been having a motherfucker of a time lately, so we really need the break. So we've decided to pretend we were on vacation. We're going to go to a hotel and pick up all the local tourist information and then go to a local grocery and buy just what we need for the week and then we're going to go romp around our town like it's a trip. We have an awesome little rural town and lots of people actually vacation here, so why shouldn't we?

Oh, I look at the hotel book, too!

You'll be productive some other time, Lee.

Staycation, woo! I think being a tourist at home is awesome.

I don't actively look for the evacuation map, but I do study it when I come across it, even while thinking that I will probably not remember what it says in an emergency. never needed it, so that's nice.

BTW, Liese, my parents were telling me about a book that might interest you, A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque by E B Held, a former CIA agent carefully using declassified documents to cover Trotsky, a bunch of atomic bomb intrigue, right up until it's too recent to talk about. Apparently he gives talks sometimes in the area, too.

Oh, I totally read all the hotel info, too.

Today was basically a wash, so here's hoping we actually do stuff tomorrow.

Also, that's an amazing nice person, -t!

Took a break from cleaning and packing. That was possibly a mistake, as I don't ever want to move again.

I only read enough to find out what this hotel offers that most don't, how do I get food, how do I get internet.

Cass, Art History was the only thing I chose easily--I'm signed up for two with Coursera, one May and one in the fall. I only really plan on taking one--we'll see. It's all the rest--the film studies, psychology, computer science, philosophy...what do I actually like enough to apply discipline to?

We sorted through 80 zillion receipts for taxes (seriously, having a self-employed spouse who travels all the time is HELL). This was made troublesome due to a fundamental schism here in Stately Fogelson Manor on The Right Way To Organize. I am totally right, but we are doing it the more complicated Jason way, because if we didn't he was going to have a nervous breakdown. Sometimes it sucks being the less anal one in a relationship.

I also look at the evacuation map.

Worked for Jason Bourne.

Emmett spent five hours taking the SATs today, and now is filled with mindless gibbering destructive teen energy. I was going to turn him loose on San Francisco and his friend's party but that fell through and now I'm stuck with insan-o teenbeast.