Today, we ate blueberry muffins and Dot “painted” rainbows and suns on our walls and piled up all of her clothes on to a chair in her room and said she was making a “wonderful.” When she started making splashing noises, I realized she was talking about a “waterfall.” Then she asked me to put on her poodle skirt, her Batgirl costume, a bathing suit, some sunglasses and a hat, which she called her “sweet potato hat:” (named, I think, after what Mr. Potatohead calls Mrs. Potatohead in Toy Story, since Mrs. Potatohead has a similar hat). She put a different boot on each foot, and she stomped around the house, admiring herself in mirrors. Then she put some Easter stickers on her Beymax toy, then on her own belly, then on my back, then back to Beymax, then back to my back, then back to Beymax. Then she put Beymax — festooned in Easter eggs and flowers — in her high chair and fed him toy cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So it was a day of little wins. I got to talk to some of my DRI reading group over Microsoft Teams. I ate some mini eggs. I drank a little whiskey. I read some awesome work by my students (before whiskey). I watched a fashion reality TV show, despite the fact that I will never get out of sweatpants again. We didn’t go outside, but it was a decent day nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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