endings and beginnings

 this past month has been ridiculous, and the past week more ridiculous than the rest. i burned through to 130% of my hours and yesterday, after a really nice farewell call with the department, i finally managed to deploy an almost-complete (one last bug, but my co-workers can handle it) version of the software.

it was an exciting and momentous occasion.

i've now (an hour or two ago) sent off my final invoice and am gearing up for a very busy first day with my new employer tomorrow.

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mr smear's first week at school was mostly excellent! the highlight of the week was the moment his teacher explained to us that he has sport on tuesdays and fridays, because up until then we hadn't known that israeli schools operate six days a week.

holy shit.

otherwise, we prepped him for holocaust memorial day and apparently he behaved impeccably during the siren. unfortunately, he subsequently sat down and removed his sandals in order to smell his feet. not the most appropriate of follow-ups...

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today was mostly good. i began it with housekeeping (physical and virtual) while listening to greta van fleet (this article on their trolling is fantastic). then mr smear and i took gd to meet urchin, the two of them went in one direction and mr smear and i headed off to find food because he was "famished". so i bought two decent-sized and delicious poké bowls, i finished mine and he barely touched his.

funny how he had plenty of space for the frozen yoghurt afterwards. and then complained dramatically to gd that he was "famished" again after we met up...

the only thing that wasn't nice was the sudden, painful gas in the evening that lasted an hour or two and made the walk home... unpleasant. i don't know what specifically it is that i ate that caused it, but it was most unwelcome.

anyway, we generally enjoyed our mission around town this afternoon and it was nice to be able to stroll around without any kind of time pressure!

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now, to bed!