Yesterday Tom and I went out to shop, go to the library, etc. I picked up a copy of David Carradine's Endless Highway to use for my next paper in Clinical Psychology. We are studying dilemmas and the paper is supposed to be based on a biography or autobiography of someone but written as if the biographical information was collected during therapy. We are supposed to identify a dilemma (a motive of positive human relations, mastery, hostility, and one other I can't remember at the moment with a counterforce of some fear or guilt that arises due to trying to achieve the motive and the coping strategies used to relieve the dilemma) and write a 6-12 page paper on what it is, how it manifested in childhood and in adulthood, and include a mock therapy conversation. I have an interest in David Carradine as an actor and am definitely attracted to his character, Kwai Chang Caine. This seemed like a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity while doing it for a grade
Then we stopped at the spa store for a vacuum. They had a nifty little tube within a tube that works by hand pumping. We would have got it but $50 seems awfully steep to me. Then the salesman suggested that we go to Home Depot and buy a fitting to go over the intake in the hot tub and a pipe. So we went and looked but they didn't have anything quite the right size. When we got home Tom took the vacuum hose from an upright floor vacuum that doesn't work anymore, and a cottage cheese container and put them together. He got in the hot tub and tried it out. It worked fine. I like it when we can recycle and save money.
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