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Yesterday was an excellent cap to the week. I went to the all-hands meeting, then had my first run of one-on-ones, then met with S on general roles and strategy, then had therapy. Getting to know the Fellows has been really enjoyable and I’m excited to see what we can do together. I showed C what staging a new version of the map is like. He was appropriately horrified, and also had some ideas for how to make it less awful in the interim while we work on moving away from CMS. After that, D had a fix ready for the surprise file name change caused by the geo coding refactor, so I tested and merged that and set up a one-off run to hopefully repair the gap from the last two days.

Dinner, crossword, then finished watching The Boys in the Band, which I am not surprised to find is a film adaptation of a play by the same name. Very different from my usual fare but lovely all the same. No snack, just sleep. Dreamt of cashew fruit, oxidizing metal sculptures, retrieving long-abandoned clothing from the yard, playing Connect Four with half the pieces missing and replaced with slices of vegetables.

Yesterday I finished the hem band, and washed the skirt along with our
usual laundry to get rid of any stray oils and chalk. It screwed up the
canvas inside the hem band something awful though so I’ll need to tack it
in place before I wash it again.

I made a Dorset button while finishing Lucifer, crooked but not bad for a
first try. I’ve started another one that will be straighter.

Crossword, dinner, folded all the laundry, and then I watched The Mummy.
Brendan Fraser is a gift.

Yesterday I ripped back the pleats and redid them right sides together,
which was way easier... then realized it didn’t leave enough room for the
plackets. So I ripped them back again, folded the pleats wrong side
together, but pinned the right-sides-together flap created when you press
them toward the side seams, and sewed that. Much easier, though the last
pleat insisted on turning out twisted. Twice. So I set it aside to revisit
later.

After lunch I cleaned my mess from atop and under the dining room table,
and found my ultimate hat and the double-knit wolf mittens from the yarn
swap I did with a woman in the Netherlands a few years ago. The hat had
minimal damage and went into the freezer, but the mittens were a sad mess
of missing fabric on one side, so I guiltily threw them out. That is
unfortunately what I get for not taking better care of my things.

I tried a cleaning technique from one of the recent ADHD twitter threads,
where instead of running things to other rooms as you find them, you set
out an array of bins to sort them into so you can avoid leaving your
physical focus area. It was good! I did wind up doing a few weird things
(it was easier to just wrap A’s gift than to sort it somewhere and be
continually reminding myself not to forget to wrap it) but the whole
process was less tiring.

After all the detritus was put away, I made candied pecans, just because.
They’re pretty good but just the edge of too sweet for serious snacking. I
switched from tortilla chips to animal crackers so my daily sugar intake is
still a bit high.

Dinner; still having some anxiety paranoia about raisins but pushing
through it. Crossword, snuggling. I watched Prince of Egypt, an animated
film from the 90s about Exodus I’d for some reason avoided until now. It’s
lovely, with a powerful soundtrack that sits appropriately on the edge of
moving & overwhelming. Recommend.

Yesterday at work I finished getting all the tests to pass, which was a
nice surprise. Next I’m building a type system. No meeting, since my boss
is traveling this week.

After work, reading ceramics forums, dinner, and crossword. Then I watched
Black Panther. What a perfect film.

Really good food day. I had a mid morning snack, but still ate all my lunch
and had afternoon snack and dinner and everything was fine. Pleased!