Ugh, that's an ugly combination of migraine and temperature

Some happy news here:

Mac has registered for 2 classes at a local community college. It’s been over 3 years since school was even mildly attempted.

The really good part of this good news is that he did the application, placement testing, meeting with advisors, registration…all on his own.

I just have to figure out payment/reimbursement from the 529 and it looks like I can get paid some for rent/food/utilities if he takes at least 2 classes.

He is still hoping to find part time work, but it has to be something mostly off his feet and he does not yet have office skills.

That sounds very good, msbelle!

msbelle, that's great news!

The really good part of this good news is that he did the application, placement testing, meeting with advisors, registration…all on his own.The really good part of this good news is that he did the application, placement testing, meeting with advisors, registration…all on his own.

That is huge. My 33-year-old isn't functional enough to manage that. That must feel good.

Go Mac!

Met my new doctor yesterday...he is cute in an if-we-were-in-an-indie-movie-he'd be my friend's Asian husband way, but not so cute as to make it hard to be hurt or sick in front of him. Less shallowly, I think I could tell him things if it came down to it, which I think is good. He was okay about the chair, but didn't try extra-hard to be, like, down about it. Although it's not great that he doesn't know how somebody in a wheelchair gets a breast screening, either. I'd say doing his own stuff is a good sign for school going forward, Msbelle. We usually have cicadas, but it's been too hot and not wet enough this year. Meara, yeah, kind of a Day here, too. Pass. Read a rumor that Big Balls got beat up by a girl, if the stakes weren't so high, I'd say film it and show it every christmas.

Well done, Mac!

Matilda has been really on top of her college process, from application to scheduling classes to meeting with counselors and contact with her roommate.

She's got an organizer that she's been filling out every day in advance of starting.

We're moving her in tomorrow and the only thing I'm stressed about is meeting her roommate's parents.

It there a word for the habit of starting from one article or phrase or word, which takes you to another, then another, then another, and so on, until you end up learning about something completely unexpected, or finding a connection you had no idea about?

It's something I first started in middle school when I learned how to use the Encyclopedia Britannica, and I have continued ever since. It became so much easier, and so much more addictive, once I had access to the internet.

Today it lead me from an item in my Facebook feed about the original platting of Topeka KS, to the history of the Wyandot people, to this guy: [link] who it seems was a cousin of one of my ancestors on the Walker side, and a mutual cousin of this guy: [link]

The closest I have come up with is "following a trail of breadcrumbs" or "down a rabbit-hole," but neither seems quite the right fit because there wasn't a purposeful start point or a focused search or an intended goal, just jumps from topic to topic. It's all "oh, I didn't know that" or "what does that mean?" or "that's odd" or "huh, that's interesting," or sometimes just plain "how?" or "why?"

Reminds me of [link] blog by erinaceous.