Tired but hopeful

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Yesterday I managed problems with a couple of indicators, went to the all hands meeting, had one on ones in the afternoon, and in between I wrote a thing to fix an error I made in the fix from earlier this week. I went to therapy, which was mostly about progress on strategies for taking better care of myself, and looking back at the work we’ve done with the fellowship and the pandemic in general. I met with J a little later than usual to run through her science fair talk she’ll be giving today, which went great — this is the first time she’s had to cut a talk down to fit in the allotted time, and it was fun to both introduce her to the concept and lay out a bunch of techniques for more focused and concise communication. We got really into it so it was almost 6:30 by the time we wrapped up, but it was worth it.

Dinner, crossword, Atlantis, snack, sleep. Dreamt of magical teens, dueling demigods, paper airplane contests, palanquins, and pre-drafted roving.

I started reading The Return of Absent Souls, book six in the after the rift series by CJ Archer. It ostensibly will resolve all remaining dangling threads, but it’s kindof all over the place, and the mantelpieces are littered with enough shotguns to supply an army. It makes it difficult to care about the plot, since there are too many possibilities arriving too quickly to develop any favorites. The characters are the stars here.