Unconscious mutterings

Here is a great meme from Lunanina:

Free association is described as a "psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.

That's an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this excercise, we're just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I'll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind.

"Rules are, there are no rules." There are no right or wrong answers. Don't limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head. AND you don't have to have your words up on Sunday. Take all week if you want! Read the FAQ for more information.

1. Destined :: to be free


2. FAIL :: not interested


3. Camping :: fun


4. Only you :: would say that


5. Incessant :: nagging


6. Tomorrow :: is another day


7. Impressive :: action


8. Riches :: dispense downwards


9. Dislike :: sugar in my tea


10. Speaker :: turn up the volume

Weekends

In single parent, autonomously home-educating households - well, this one, anyway - weekends aren't really any different to any other day.

• I'm still up at 5am, and asleep by 9pm.


• All the usual jobs still need doing: cooking, cleaning, washing-up, etc.


• Education goes on as normal, 24/7 unless the children are asleep.

But it seems that for the rest of the world, weekends are different and this does permeate our consciousness from time to time..

• The Internet is relatively dead! I can receive upwards of 100 list mails on week days, but next to none at weekends. Ditto blog posts and comments. Sometimes I wonder why my inbox/RSS feed list is so empty, then I remember what day it is.


• Supermarkets are closed on Sunday mornings. No early, quiet shopping for us then.


• Everywhere is phenomenally busy, so we tend to stay at home.


• I see a bit less of the teenagers because their schooled friends suddenly have spare time.

Maybe all this will change when Tom starts his business in January, but I suspect not much.