Shiro's with Funny Lady Wednesday? Fabulous, natch. When we get together we talk, a lot, and then she's late for something like dinner or changing into a costume. I could have gone to the regular monthly poly thing just a couple of blocks away, but I needed the sleep. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
Last night? I took the 522 (A new bus route for me!) out to Bothell to have drinks & nibbles with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kathrynt. She, if you'll recall, was my voice coach during transition, only much more than that. With her tea, sympathy, and fabulous Stilton cheese, she was one of the two people who helped me the most in my hour of direst need. (The other was, of course, cupcake_goth.) So I keep in touch.
kathrynt's two children are still in the single digits, age-wise. She was pregnant with her younger one while coaching me. Now she's found out he's got some mighty serious ADD. I mean she makes him sound like the Wendling on steroids, with the exception that my son was disruptive in class past a certain age. She's got plenty of parental self-doubt, as did Ex and I, but I think she's doing a whole lot of things right, or as right as it's possible to know under current circumstances. She's probably doing a better job than I did when my son was that age. If anyone can raise her son to self-sufficiency, she's the one. The trouble is, I'm not entirely certain that precondition can be met.
I didn't get home until midnight despite the pretty reasonable bus service. She was kind enough to let me keep warm in her car while waiting for the bus at her end.
It felt weird interleaving tales of Folsom and my birthday with her non-stop parenting. She & I are in such different places in our lives, but I wish I got to see more of her.
Last night? I took the 522 (A new bus route for me!) out to Bothell to have drinks & nibbles with
kathrynt. She, if you'll recall, was my voice coach during transition, only much more than that. With her tea, sympathy, and fabulous Stilton cheese, she was one of the two people who helped me the most in my hour of direst need. (The other was, of course, cupcake_goth.) So I keep in touch.kathrynt's two children are still in the single digits, age-wise. She was pregnant with her younger one while coaching me. Now she's found out he's got some mighty serious ADD. I mean she makes him sound like the Wendling on steroids, with the exception that my son was disruptive in class past a certain age. She's got plenty of parental self-doubt, as did Ex and I, but I think she's doing a whole lot of things right, or as right as it's possible to know under current circumstances. She's probably doing a better job than I did when my son was that age. If anyone can raise her son to self-sufficiency, she's the one. The trouble is, I'm not entirely certain that precondition can be met.I didn't get home until midnight despite the pretty reasonable bus service. She was kind enough to let me keep warm in her car while waiting for the bus at her end.
It felt weird interleaving tales of Folsom and my birthday with her non-stop parenting. She & I are in such different places in our lives, but I wish I got to see more of her.
