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Cathy Willey

Member since Aug 25, 2016 at 11:21 AM

40-Something Nerd Mom. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadDec 21, 2016 at 8:22 AM

    Thing I love about my relationship with my husband #174893

    We had a conversation this morning that started with 'I set preset #3 on the radio to the station you left it on the other day' and ended up discussing gender policing and makeup-shaming with a stop at 'I think Yo-Yo Ma got bored with the classical cello ...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadDec 19, 2016 at 8:20 AM

    Life imitates... Civ V?

    One of my favorite things in Civ V is when my two main rivals start fighting each other; it depletes their militaries, making them less of a threat to attack me 'just because', and (at least in the short term) makes them spend resources on building soldie...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadNov 10, 2016 at 11:51 AM

    The Asshole Problem

    About twelve years ago, I was really into an online game/"society simulator" called Cantr II. (Jos, Wim, in the unlikely event that you find this, hallo, hoe gaat het, ik probeer nog steeds nederlands te leren. :) ) It was kind of a sandbox game - there w...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadNov 08, 2016 at 9:26 AM

    Lazy voting...

    I used to regard straight-ticket voting as lazy, the tool of an unthinking party loyalist who was more concerned with what label a politician wore than what their actual positions were. I guess I've become an unthinking party loyalist - or more like an un...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadOct 25, 2016 at 10:55 AM

    Crazy Cat Lady

    At one point in my life - one very brief point - I had ten cats: I had three of my own, we fostered three for a friend who had to move to a no-cats-allowed space, and one of those three was pregnant with four kittens. Two of the foster cats were rehomed t...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 26, 2016 at 5:21 PM

    I didn't know how heavy it was

    I had my annual checkup today, as part of which my primary care doctor took over prescribing my brain meds. I related to him that it had almost been like magic - like I'd been carrying a weight around in my head and didn't realize it until I put it down....
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 19, 2016 at 9:42 AM

    Garden dreams

    Most years I seem to plan more garden than I'm actually capable of taking care of. (The last couple years the amount of garden I was actually capable of taking care of was zero. whoops. This year I anticipated that and didn't plant any vegetables.) So I'...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 16, 2016 at 7:28 PM

    Non-tea time.

    It's pumpkin spice latte season. (I know it's only September. I don't care.) I'm not a big fan of Starbucks coffee but Tim Hortons also has an excellent pumpkin spice flavor, and this year it's available in ice capp form. The corollary to this: it is also...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 08, 2016 at 2:17 PM

    A thing I should have figured out without having to do it the hard way

    The Hamilton soundtrack is not good music for work. Abject weeping is not conducive to spreadsheet-wrangling. (On the bright side it's a day where there are enough spreadsheets to wrangle that I hung up the "go away don't want any" sign and closed the doo...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 06, 2016 at 9:41 AM

    Tea time!

    I've become a bit of a tea snob. I prefer loose-leaf tea to tea bags. I paid out of my own pocket for a kettle for my work breakroom so that I could have "real" boiling water to pour over the infuser instead of microwaving my mug of water and then dunking...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 06, 2016 at 6:57 AM

    Things I Learned Over The Long Weekend

    The Hamilton soundtrack is not good gardening music. The weeding will be brought to a halt by abject weeping rather than overexertion and/or being out of weeds. haha you're never out of weeds I was actually out of room in the yard waste bin so I guess I d...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadSep 04, 2016 at 7:45 AM

    Me and the CPAP

    My husband snores. I don't think I'd be out of line to describe his degree of snoring, left to his own devices, as 'like a jet engine, if you're sitting inside the plane'. This led to a situation where I had to go to bed before he did, by maybe an hour or...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadAug 29, 2016 at 7:21 AM

    In which I grapple with the asshole problem (and lose)

    I once explained the idea that keeps me, a secular humanist, going on a philosophical level as this: while there is no underlying grand purpose to my existence, we seven billion humans are stuck here together on this mudball, and we should do what we can ...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadAug 26, 2016 at 1:57 PM

    Tea time!

    Normally when I want an "instead of coffee" tea I'll reach for Irish Breakfast blend, and I prefer the cheap stuff (Twinings) to the higher-end tea from Tea Haus or Adagio. It's got a lot of body to it, I guess, and a lot of caffeine - I've referred to it...
  • Things In Cathy's Head
    Things In Cathy's HeadThings In Cathy's HeadAug 25, 2016 at 11:38 AM

    Movie review: The Little Prince

    I watched The Little Prince on Netflix and I can’t recommend it strongly enough. (Bearing in mind that I took Spanish instead of French in high school and thus never read Le Petit Prince and so I have no attachment to the source material at all.) It was ...
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