i've just social media blocked someone i was good friends with at school because i cannot handle seeing his ignorant posts about israel's current border crisis which are made all the more toxic by his position as a jew and a (mediocre) comedian and writer who has audiences who pay attention to him.
figuring out some important things while reading kill six billion demons between tests - a pity there's a lot of SJW / identity politics bullshit in it, because it's otherwise very good
going to bed around 2.15am
a stressful morning erupting in the car, a superhero shirt having a remarkably positive effect on my relationship with my son
an hour managing minor tasks while waiting for gd, quick shopping on the way to picking up mr smear, an extra minute's drive irritating me but getting mr smear to sleep
a much-needed massage, walking out late for a meeting that wasn't going to happen, a little work success then taking mr smear to meet gd at the point mall, mr smear singing the pretender at the top of his little lungs from the trolley, home for dinner, handing over to my mom and going to gd's class
forgetting my jacket in the car when it was COLD, the hebrew teacher losing her shit after the class, a really interesting talk about fourth-dimensional beings, garment fringes for women throughout history and the arbitrary wrongness of PTBM (positive time-based mitzvot)
a long talk with my mom, cellphone option exploration, working hard
friday 11th:
the dramatic midnight discovery that mr smear had gone to bed with a soiled diaper
working until 2.15 then suddenly and desperately exhausted
fifteen-minute wakeup at 7.30am, a quick breakfast shovel 'n slurp before showering before taking mr smear to school in his superman onesie
checking out the virgin active collection - serious value for serious money - and returning to my car to find that it'd been bumped by someone who (apparently) wouldn't have noticed had it not been for a really helpful dude who witnessed the incident
settling in to work and receiving a call from a recruiter, subsequently looking over my old posts and finding that i'd been (rightly) down-voted for posting a sample that looked like i must have been having a stroke
picking up a jolly mr smear, an easy drive home (loving him yelling along to eifo hayeled) and adding the extra street ftw
(missing naptime)
trying to take mr smear to the park on a blustery day, his first successful use of the fireman's pole (!)
(missing evening)
dinner with my mom, showering with dub, putting mr smear to bed
(missing night, too?, i don't recall a thing)
saturday 12th:
crazy dreams of hiking and the author of the china study having been a famous horror film actor, sleeping in and waking up with a stiff neck
finally moving out around 11am, the telkom shift manager fast-tracking my move to prepaid because the systems were down (whoo hoo!), no apple doctors available to fix my phone on the weekend, the live looping genius at nobel square again, a semi-failed lunch with forks and beetroot, mr smear falling asleep for the exact time i needed to sort out a new phone and contract, offering tears for coin-operated rides, tea with my mom and mr smear spilling his babyccino all over himself (and getting me wet, too)
home, pharmacy runs (the first was closed), a neighbour awkwardly sharing her prejudices about the downstairs murder victim, finally making a mother's day reservation, watching monsters inc over pies for dinner, playtime before bed being fun but winding mr smear up, a long good night followed by a couple of hours of not much
sunday 13th:
up until 2am on a combination of work and hackerrank, going to bed with highway to hell's "living easy, living free" bouncing around my head and reminding me that you can do one or the other, but not both...
mr smear calling for me in the night, gd suspecting some kind of infection
getting up with gd for mother's day, watching toy story 2 with mr smear before starting the day with hackerrank "small victories" which i'm now using as a form of willpower building
taking a lot longer than planned to leave, a fun superpark playdate with mr smear's brazilian friend, a train ride that was extended so that the driver could flirt with a girl eating lunch (not clear if she was happy about that), mr smear repeatedly jumping down a giant slide by himself and making me very proud, becoming irritated by the lack of parenting visible in other kids' behaviour and grabbing a cup of coffee before taking mr smear home, picking up gd's phone, returning to the waterfront to get her new phone, returning home to pick up gd and mr smear and head through to town to meet my mom for a late mother's day lunch at plant
a good buffet, a walnut scare, mr smear enjoying himself
new phone setup - i'm now a huawei fan - showering mr smear and getting him into bed without too much trouble, watching the first bit of doctor strange, building willpower (hackerrank) and getting into work
monday 14th:
working well until 2.15am, tough up at 7.30
a well-timed fight before a helpful therapy session
a long sprouting co. burger preparation (he started from scratch) and a very engaging conversation (economics and apartheid infrastructure)
the indescribable pride in mr smear managing to give the doctor a urine sample (also his first time calling him by name)
finally eating the lunch we'd been carrying with us, returning to pick up the abandoned smoothie and continuing the previous conversation where we'd left off
arriving at the waterfront just in time for mr smear to nap, bad phone reception stress, big grocery shopping and the regional manager walking in to find me struggling (so sad for the store managers), back home for half an hour of chores then rushing out to spar to pick up "unusual items" (kimchi and tofu) and returning too late to take mr smear to play with our old neighbour's kids
gd very upset about the international community's responses to the US embassy move to jerusalem and the IDF defending israel's borders
monsters inc., a big dinner, falling asleep while putting mr smear to bed and waking up a short while later with him still awake, saying goodnight and putting myself straight to bed
tuesday 15th:
the disappointing news that south africa recalled its israeli ambassador
dropping mr smear at school, working out of my mom's coffee shop, almost driving over a spaced-out homeless man who walked right behind my car while i was reversing, taking mr smear for a headshot update where he won over the photographer with his superhero poses and breakdancing
three circles around the block before mr smear was ready for his nap
work (and work frustration), then taking mr smear to the gym for a good bag workout
getting home in time for mr smear to (accidentally) dump gd's brilliant vegan shepherd's pie on the floor before taking her to her class; coming home to feed him, insert my new SIM card and prep him for bed, then leaving him with my mom (he played really nicely all evening) and return to the temple to join gd. first impression with the new SIM: it's a relief to be back on vodacom's network, and my contract is effectively prepaid so it's comforting to know that i'll have control over my spending and a significant chunk of my billing. now if only my caller id was working...
it was an entertaining class, we came home to good reports from my mom; a chat with nystire before eating and getting started on the stupidly delicious chocolate zucchini cakes gd baked, thoroughly enjoying the rest of dr strange
today:
fiddling a bit with sailor's macbook and doing a little work and posting this and crashing before the big meeting with the publisher (whoops, should'a gone to bed earlier...)
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