My Plan A for today was to write about the academic Maryknoll nun who influenced me so profoundly. In fact, there is probably no other woman, even my mother, who so clearly gave me a vision of what I could be. And what, in the end, I became. Unfortunately, however, Plan A was replaced by Plan B today, so Sister Mary Edith is now Plan A for tomorrow.
I did, however, finally get the DVD recorder wired up to the TV and satellite receiver and even tested the various modes we want to use. The unit also does a lot of other things – hooking up to a PC or camcorder or additional speakers for amplified sound – that we don’t want to do, so I was hugely relieved to be able to skip those pages in the instructions manual.
I did walk around for about an hour frantically trying to remember the word “crepe” to describe the thin pancakes Peter made for a cannelloni dish this evening. Figuring out the DVD recorder system helps to calm a rising panic when I experience these senior moments.
