So this post should have been made on the fourth, but I was in Washington DC, and it was ridiculously difficult to locate a wifi network during my stay. The hotel I was staying at of course had a network, but it cost $10 to access it for 24 hours and with so many hotels offering wifi for free now, I thought it was a silly charge. Also, the conference organizers did not set up a wifi account for the event, equally lame, especially considering that the conference was held at George Washington University, which is apparently one of the most expensive colleges in the country.
At any rate, here I am catching up with the blog and watching the Oscars (not that I saw any movies this year).
These photos are from Thursday at about 6 AM. LB was helping me to finish up the packing the morning of my departure, looking around in my suitcase. She was putting her toys in and taking them out. When I told my colleagues at the conference about her little game, they laughed and said she was playing fort-da, the game theorized by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. According to Freud's account, an infant boy who has recently lost his mother repeatedly throws out and pulls back into his crib a ball on a string. Freud claims that this action represents the baby's desire to control the loss of his mother and in this way work through his grief. Not that LB was somehow mourning my loss (or my coming departure), but the theme of the conference was trauma, so Freud was in the air.
She is definitely into taking things out of boxes and containers at the moment.
And here's a picture for mom. She loves this picture of the little curl in the sun.
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