So bored but so tired

[infryq]

Yesterday I babied various upload jobs on the server, though it turns out a botched kill of the nightly backup caused one of the normal hourly csv uploads to take seven hours, pushing the whole schedule out of whack. I wasn’t able to fill all the gaps in history by end of day, but I hope to finish that up today. In the afternoon I had one on ones and therapy, which was exhausting. This week was a lot, and sitting with that was no fun at all. Afterwards I lurked in the Zoom link for my weekly meeting with J, but she didn’t show; meanwhile I released the new version of Epidata on PyPI, badly once, then properly. I also debugged and temporarily fixed a problem with the surveys data by reverting to a backup archive file. I still need to drop the bad rows in the database and figure out why the monthly archive backup isn’t working properly, but that’s for another day.

Dinner, crossword, SG-1, snack, sleep. Dreamt of costume swaps, failing the Olin Challenge, bus routes, and being strangely committed to but struggling with a particular method of archiving my AP US History notes from high school. The sound of papers sliding past each other under pressure.

I started reading Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, which so far seems to be an enormous incest fantasy in the guise of a post-apocalyptic dubiously science fiction dystopia. The climate stuff is fine, the infertility stuff is a good twist, but like... all the suspicions about clones seem like they should equally apply to twins, and it’s a struggle to suspend disbelief sometimes.