A Five-Minute Late April Update

It's been a while.  Where did I leave off? 

• LG: college acceptance, job offer, lease on a first apartment (in lieu of dorm in the fall), tattoo, puppeteer in final production through children's theater.  They seem generally happier than they were as a high school student. We are watching Russian Doll together when they are home early enough to do so.
• Tiny Boy: has a new 504 plan for ADHD-related writing issues (to concretize some things his teacher was already doing). Doing well in school.  Enjoying the late-pandemic masked indoor playdate.  Begins sex ed in a couple weeks, which prompted me finding a book that includes subjects like infertility, pregnancy loss, and IVF. (Yay!) Some behavioral issues I don't feel like going into right now :)
• Me: counting down the days until I am no longer directing my program.  
• This week's highlight: LG called the fire department when they were home alone and the kitchen developed a mysterious burny smell completely unrelated from cooking.  The fire department verified the smell but not any heat in the wall.  Eventually we figured out it was the fridge.  So yesterday involved procuring a mini fridge, bringing salvageable freezer food to neighbors, while I explore real fridge options.
• I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO SHOP FOR APPLIANCES THE LAST WEEK OF THE SEMESTER.
• Ahem.  
• But I am quite glad to be at the point of the semester that I can truly wrap up.  

Post as a Five Minute Break

I had today the unexpected gift of a cancelled meeting (a long one: two hours plus the ~30 min it would have taken to prep).

I've been trying to track my time this week, mostly to see if there are any times that I'm not using systematically enough.  (Spoiler alert: I suck at time tracking, because in order to do so effectively I'd need to get really granular.  Like 10-15 minute increments.  And doing so would take way too much time.)  But because of this project, I didn't just proceed with my day but really thought:  I have the gift of two hours.  What will I do with it?

I drove with LG to campus, instead of having LG take the bus, so they could practice driving.  (This was only about 20 minutes).  I read a grad student's dissertation chapter that's been languishing on my computer for about a month.  I did more of my morning "reading around" than I usually do.

It's not just that I had the gift of this time, but it's on a day that I have no other meetings scheduled.  That means I now have 3 hours until Tiny Boy comes home....to get caught up on All The Things. (At least some of the things!)  Found time really is the best.