Long hot bath. It's raining, so I don't go out for coffee. Take a few minutes to register for a CPR/First Aid class. Streetcar to work... listening to Weekday on KUOW. Steve Scher interviews the same authors of The Spirit Level & The Importance Of Economic Equality that Ron Reagan did yesterday. Richard Wilkinson is professor emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School. Kate Pickett is a professor of epidemiology at the University of York. I love their English accents. I hope that I can hear the whole thing later. 10 to 11 - Breaks for Kenn, Karen and Jessica. The Trailblazers & Explorers are a little crazy. Karen has trouble organizing them, but she makes it happens. 11 to 12 - Charmaine's lunch. Six Sea Otters play in the Bike Room. Sharyn does lunch prep. The kids get so quiet when they eat lunch. 12 to 1 - Pam's lunch. I do the diapers while Kenn cleans up the lunch mess. It takes a little more work to get the 5 Dolphins to sleep today, but they sleep. 1 to 2 - Kenn's break. Watch 5 Dolphins sleep. 2 to 3 - Patty's lunch. Ryan wakes up crying, and that wakes up Alex. Ryan goes back to sleep with Charmaine's help, but Alex wants to get up and play. I take him to the Bike Room. Lots of groups are mingling there. Just before 3, I take Alex back to the classroom. He's always in a hurry. Walk up to Whole Foods to get some anchovies, curry chicken salad and some River Rock chardonnay. Back at my place, I turn on Ron Reagan. He does an interview with an interesting graduate student who lives in a van to afford grad school without going into debt. He writes about his experiences for Salon.com - I Live In A Van Down By Duke University.
Ken Ilgunas says, "Living in a van was my grand social experiment. I wanted to see if I could -- in an age of rampant consumerism and fiscal irresponsibility -- afford the unaffordable: an education." I love it when he quotes Thoreau... "to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life … to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." OW! I relate to him... child care givers need to live sturdily... to do without with most Americans take for granted. I know some people who work in child care who live in their cars. I am fortunate to have what I have... and Miss Mary Contrary... he's not trying to make a juvenile philosophical point by living frugally. You try it! Bean soup for dinner. Watch Star Trek TNG - Where No One Has Gone Before.
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