2024-08-09

Project: TWI002

Journal

- Note taken on Fri Aug 9, 202410:52

I am in a much better place this morning. Sleeping was fine, and thinking

through my anxieties helped a lot. That said, Emma and I ended up in a

recurring Argument on the way back from dinner at Isaac's Way with her

parents. I was reading an article I had left open about Joseph McCarthy on

Wikipedia while talking with Johanna and Emma started telling me something

about her day. I think it had to do with rubber duckies in the pool while the

kids were playing with Ren, Brenda's granddaughter. Brenda is our host at our

As seems to happen about once a month or so, I acted as though I was listening

to Emma's story, while actually not stopping what I was reading. I am not sure

how to stop that habit. In the moment there's not much thinking going on. I'm

engaged in something else and Emma just starts talking at me. I believe part

of the problem is that my honest intention is to finish what I'm doing and

shift my attention, but it means I miss the first part of she just said. When

I surface to ask clarification it outs me as having not listened to the first

part of what she said and then it's all over.

surepjm