Other stuff I did:
- Practiced Spanish on the Rosetta Stone
- Applied to 3 jobs
- Filled out a Myspace survey
- Played chess and Scattergories with my mom. While we were playing she told me some stories about my grandfather and how much he loved chess. Oh, another cool thing was that I wanted to put a CD on, and I happened to grab Queen II without realizing how perfect that album is for a chess game, with the White Queen and Black Queen songs and the white and black sides of the album. I'd always thought of that album in an Alice-in-Wonderland sort of context; this was the first time I thought about it relating to chess.
- Read about Jim Henson on Wikipedia
- Practiced Silent Night on the guitar
- Had some long talks with friends about school and parenting. Usually I'm not good at debating calmly, but I managed to make a pretty convincing argument against punishing kids, I think.
- Made this post, which led to reading about spiders' web decorations on Wikipedia
Yesterday, the 28th, ended badly with an argument. But before that, I did other things:
- Watched some of I Love the 70s vol. 2
- Read a bunch of unschooling essays (about anger, ironically)
- Went exploring in the woods, although I couldn't go too far because the cats started following me and I didn't want them getting out near the road. But I discovered a lot of fall wildflowers growing in our yard, in a side we stay away from because there's a lot of junk that's been left there from when other people lived in the trailer. I also saw a lot of butterflies and a really cool spiny orb-weaver
- Put up the Halloween decorations! Yay!
- Watched 2 episodes of the Venture Bros., one with commentary, and there was some good info about how animation works and how certain details are harder to animate than others
- Watched some Queen videos on Youtube and talked to friends about how I'm weirded out by claymation
- Started this blog, and The Musical Box
- Went through all my old mix CDs and catalogued what songs are on them (this took a few hours, mostly because I kept going back and forth to talk on MSN)
