Moot Thoughts & Musings

I have a great husband. Every once in awhile, he does things that are just so telling of his personality that it cracks me up a bit. I love that I know him well enough to notice these things, and that the more I get to know him, the more things I'll notice.

For instance, we got a couple Bradley books in the mail the other day (Dr. Bradley's book and the other one with pictures). My gift is sorting, his is processing--he gets overwhelmed by the flow of data, I get impatient with thinking too hard on it. We should open a library. I've sorted through all the kinds of childbirth, methods of natural childbirth, options, options, options, checking up with him periodically summarizing my findings. Now that, for the most part, the leg-work of sorting is over, it's time to process, so I stuck the Bradley book in front of him, as he says encouragingly, "I'm on board, honey!"

Then he starts reading the book. I can see the tortured expression creep up on his face as pages and more pages are turned. At first I worried that he was getting overwhelmed with the whole birthing thing, so later in the car, I started to ask some probing questions to figure out what he was thinking. As I sorted through all the little things he was saying about this or that, I realized the reason for his tortured expression and concluded thus to him, "You're the type of person that when somebody says they've found the Way to do it, your response to not get on board." It's so true!! It's actually somewhat true, for me, too, though not exhibited quite as strongly as him sometimes. We're both afraid of looking like we've subscribed to the party line. Ha! How puerile. (To our credit, though, it's always good to be suspicious of people who say their way is the only, right way, because there's only One who can say that. So part of our motivation for this attitude is healthy skepticism and intellectual honesty.)

Anyway. He most assuredly is "on board" and has proved it by giving me a backrub every night since we got the book. Why didn't we get it sooner!? And we're proceeding in our preparations all the while trying to maintain an aura of nonchalance and nonsubscription.

The other great thing that has manifested his personality this week is his devotion to excellence in his technological pursuits. He's taking a couple of education classes towards his masters/certification this sem, and one of the assignments is to make a video of people talking about diversity. Pretty straightforward, huh? How would you do it? I would get a video camera, tape people talking for 45 min, and turn it in. How does he do it? He takes a lot of footage, downloads it into his open source video-editing software (which he installed just for this purpose) edits it, inserts title, credits, and inter-titles, and burns it onto a DVD. It looks pretty good. It's taken him days to do it. I asked him why he was going to all this bother. Well, he has been wanting to learn video-editing for some time now. It is a good opportunity. I hope the prof is completely blown away by how cool this is!

Another nice thing about him is that he shares thing. He shared a cold with me this week, only I can't take all the Sudafed stuff that made him feel better. Thanks a lot! *sniffle, sneeze*