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Yesterday I finished pressing and trimming the seams I sewed on Monday,
then started preparing to sew on the waistband and realized it would be
good to sew the layers together along the seamline from the pocket edges
up, both for stability and to keep the seam allowances in place. I’m doing
it by hand to make sure it doesn’t show, and got through one and a half of
four while listening to more Orbit.

At work I had a session with R, which was great. A few panicky moments of
“I understand all the words in that sentence but I have no idea how they’re
supposed to fit together” but all resolved either by slowing down and
reviewing context or skipping ahead and backfilling. Normally that is
something I do automatically without stressing about it, but the ghosts of
grad school performance anxieties past decided to haunt this topic early on
and they don’t give up easily. (R reads this, so: Nothing is your fault and
there’s nothing actually broken here; I do ask questions as soon as I’m
confident we’ll move on before I fill in any remaining holes, and I’ve got
thirty years experience at making sure the skipping ahead bit happens to
maximize the chances I’ll get the information I need, which usually means
all outward signals imply perfect understanding and it’s a complete lie.
Sorry about that. As a teacher it drives me nuts but them’s the breaks)

I spent the rest of the afternoon roughing in the basic plumbing for a
thing that will let you reload a past command in the editor so you can fix
a typo without having to retype the whole thing. It’ll work from speech
mode too, which may help soften the issues with speech rec.

The plows were starting to come out on the shuttle ride home, and we got
about an inch through the evening. Dinner, trash (I did the recycling this
week! New skills), crossword, and then I decided on a heel to use for P’s
sock (sweet tomato) and knit the first few rows while watching more Lucifer.

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