Again, with hope...

I knit more on the little "toasted almond" (which is how I'm coming to think of it now) hat last night. I needed something sweet and simple and untaxing-to-my-hands to work on. I had an unpleasant experience, though in retrospect, knowing the person involved, I shouldn't be surprised.

Without going into too much detail about the situation, it's one of those cases of "no good deed goes unpunished" or rather, perhaps, "When you and a small group of people charged with coming to a decision work very hard and do your best to come to a wise and fair decision, there will be one person who wants the rules bent (heck, "bent"? Try "broken") to change the decision to their will."

As I said, I've dealt with this person before, and the sense I get from them is that they come from a VERY privileged background*, and they don't quite understand the constraints normal people face. (This is also one of those people who CANNOT conceive that my life is at all complicated by the fact that I am single and do not hire "help." They literally do not understand that doing the marketing/doing my laundry/keeping my house clean are things I actually have to MAKE time for, and it means I don't have time to do OTHER things. And yes, this is one of the people who tries to make me feel guilty for not giving 100% of my free time away to volunteer work.)

(*Heck, I come from a pretty privileged background and I acknowledge that. But I'm not acting shocked that other people don't share some of the same privileges I do, and I'm not waving off their concerns as minimal.)

But whatever. It's the weekend. I won't have to deal with that person for a while. (I try to deal with them as little as possible. I think what I find unsettling is that they really are a person who rubs me the wrong way, and I try to be a person who likes EVERYONE so I sit around asking myself what is wrong with me that I cannot like this person and am annoyed by their attitudes.)

This afternoon I'm running out to the woods to snap some photos for my presentation (at least one of the places has no hunting. I'm hoping there aren't hunters out at the other one, but I'm going to wear a "caution yellow" vest I borrowed from a colleague, just in case). And then I have quick bread to bake for the craft-group meeting tomorrow.

I've already decided that after the craft-group, I'm probably making a run to Sherman. I realized that in a couple weeks I do a program down at church teaching how to make Chrismons and I need to get supplies. (I had already decided that my purchase of the supplies would be a contribution to the church. So I won't have to mess with the tax-exempt paperwork and also so I won't have to deal with some people moaning about how little money we have and yet we are spending money on CRAFT SUPPLIES?). I think I am also going to do a Target run; I'm getting low on some of the stuff they have that I can't easily find locally.

And I can pick up a square of pink felt for that darn cutie mark.