I haven’t done one of these in quite a while. Six or seven months, maybe.
We watched (500) Days of Summer one evening last week. It was pretty good: easy-going, interesting, a little bit different. Maybe a bit too self-aware, but aren’t a lot of movies, these days?
It turns out that the female lead, Zooey Deschanel, appeared on the soundtrack and sings with the band She & Him. I grabbed their two albums, and have had them on repeat pretty much the whole time I’ve been at my desk since. The music is cheerful, easy, confectionary for the ear, and there’s nothing at all wrong with that.
“Over It Over Again” is from the second album, imaginatively titled Volume Two.
“Over It Over Again” [YouTube]
Moira Demesne + sunshine + camera phone + cheesy post-processing.
Do you know any first aid?
Our son is just shy of a year old. He’s not walking yet, and his crawl is more of a leisurely commando scramble. You’d think it would be easy for me to keep ahead of him. Not so.
Yesterday he started choking. He’d found a coin that had fallen out of my pocket and decided it looked tasty. Kid’s going to love the chocolate money when he gets bigger, I guess.
I occasionally do some training and examining for my dad’s business. Yesterday morning I was very glad. Part of the idea of a first aid course is to get the really important stuff locked into your brain so tightly that when you need to do it doesn’t actually need much thinking. When Reuben started choking I had him flipped over and the coin out of there before I’d fully registered what was going on. He was fine.
Of course, I then needed someone else to come along and get my heart going again.
Would you know what to do? Think about it. The more people who know some first aid, the better for everyone. There’s courses all over the place, all the time. Ask your local community centre, or FE college; check out St. John’s or the Red Cross; youth groups and community groups often have courses going. Get together with some friends and colleagues and go in on a course.
Odds are it’ll never matter. But maybe it will.
The kid’s getting big. He’s one in a few weeks.