Five things, post
Oct. 9th, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompson1. Historian and raconteur Sarah Vowell was on The Daily Show last night (a rebroadcast of Tuesday's show). She said she'd opened her newspaper looking for leadership and the comforting voice of reason that morning, and when she didn't find it, went online to read FDR's Fireside Chat following the collapse of the banks in the Great Depression. She found FDR's words remarkably apt for the current situation, even if the facts were different. "It is possible that when the banks resume a very few people who have not recovered from their fear may again begin withdrawals....It needs no prophet to tell you that when the people find that they can get their money—that they can get it when they want it for all legitimate purposes—the phantom of fear will soon be laid....The success of our whole great national program depends, of course, upon the cooperation of the public—on its intelligent support and use of a reliable system."
I.e.,Don't Panic!
We'll see, Mr. Roosevelt, we'll see.
Not quite a quarter of my 401 disappeared as of September 30. I don't want to know how much more is gone; in fact, since it's all on paper, I'm pretending none of it happened. La di da, la di da, la di da! Not panicking, so not panicking.
2. As a counter balance to that, I won a free copy of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss from Strange Horizons.
3. And maybe I am so la-di-da-ingly non-panicky because I went on Saturday to have my Universal Life Energy realigned and balanced by a Reiki Master Healer. Could be the placebo effect, but I feel markedly better this week than I did in previous weeks. More energy, less stressed, less pain in my ruined knees, a settledness in my guts, a spring in my step—hey ho! Besides, it was nice to have someone "fuss" over me so intensively for an hour. Yes, I can hear the skeptics on my flist cringing, but after the last months of being out of balance, I felt like I needed every edge I could get.
4. My stress levels did raise slightly last night when Min decided she was going to have her walk in the yard despite it being pitch black out. When the roommate opened the door to cover the birdcage out back, she felt the whisper of fur along her leg, but it was dark and Min is rather a black cat, and we had the devil's time tracking the miscreant down and shooing her back inside. When my flashlight finally spotted her she was happily ensconced in the darkest corner of the yard munching on grass. She didn't believe she'd done anything wrong and saw no reason to respond to my imprecations of "Get back in the house!" She only moved after I nudged her with the flashlight and threatened to pick her up. Anything is preferable to the humiliation of being carried back in the house, so she dutifully headed in the door.
5. And speaking of stubborn...Today during writing I finally gave up and let Marian have her way. She's been dying for two days to go off on yet another backstory tangent. I tried telling her we don't need more chat at this point, but she's been insisting, and since that's partially responsible for the blocking of forward progress, I gave in and let her have her say. All these characters have such damned complicated backstories and they all want to talk and talk about them. They'll all have to be cut (nobody tell them, 'kay?) but right now I'm in helpless thrall. ::sigh:: Considering the length of this Five Things post and the number of posts I've made today, I suppose they get their chattiness from their channeler.
I.e.,
We'll see, Mr. Roosevelt, we'll see.
Not quite a quarter of my 401 disappeared as of September 30. I don't want to know how much more is gone; in fact, since it's all on paper, I'm pretending none of it happened. La di da, la di da, la di da! Not panicking, so not panicking.
2. As a counter balance to that, I won a free copy of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss from Strange Horizons.
3. And maybe I am so la-di-da-ingly non-panicky because I went on Saturday to have my Universal Life Energy realigned and balanced by a Reiki Master Healer. Could be the placebo effect, but I feel markedly better this week than I did in previous weeks. More energy, less stressed, less pain in my ruined knees, a settledness in my guts, a spring in my step—hey ho! Besides, it was nice to have someone "fuss" over me so intensively for an hour. Yes, I can hear the skeptics on my flist cringing, but after the last months of being out of balance, I felt like I needed every edge I could get.
4. My stress levels did raise slightly last night when Min decided she was going to have her walk in the yard despite it being pitch black out. When the roommate opened the door to cover the birdcage out back, she felt the whisper of fur along her leg, but it was dark and Min is rather a black cat, and we had the devil's time tracking the miscreant down and shooing her back inside. When my flashlight finally spotted her she was happily ensconced in the darkest corner of the yard munching on grass. She didn't believe she'd done anything wrong and saw no reason to respond to my imprecations of "Get back in the house!" She only moved after I nudged her with the flashlight and threatened to pick her up. Anything is preferable to the humiliation of being carried back in the house, so she dutifully headed in the door.
5. And speaking of stubborn...Today during writing I finally gave up and let Marian have her way. She's been dying for two days to go off on yet another backstory tangent. I tried telling her we don't need more chat at this point, but she's been insisting, and since that's partially responsible for the blocking of forward progress, I gave in and let her have her say. All these characters have such damned complicated backstories and they all want to talk and talk about them. They'll all have to be cut (nobody tell them, 'kay?) but right now I'm in helpless thrall. ::sigh:: Considering the length of this Five Things post and the number of posts I've made today, I suppose they get their chattiness from their channeler.
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Date: 2008-10-09 11:23 pm (UTC)- $800 from the rollover IRA (old job's 401k)
- $2k from the Roth.
- $2K from the 403b.
My parents have lost something like $20K.
I don't even want to know what things will look like next month. D:
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Date: 2008-10-09 11:31 pm (UTC)I do comfort myself with the thought that it is all paper right now and that I've probably got time to recover. Still.
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Date: 2008-10-09 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-09 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-10 04:34 am (UTC)Sorry about your 401K. I haven't looked at mine. I'm a chicken.
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Date: 2008-10-10 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-11 05:14 pm (UTC)I'm avoiding reading my financial stuff, too. It's not like I can do anything about it now, right?
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Date: 2008-10-13 05:51 pm (UTC)