am ai nervous?

 i was so bothered by my ai experience that when i woke up yesterday morning i felt compelled to write about it. and then i listened to the recent hard fork episode of the daily podcast on my way to work and things are getting *really* creepy.

my work day was good. i feel like i've made a lot of progress, even if i haven't yet completed the ticket i've been working on...

i left work early so that i could get home in time to help mr smear with his homework. some of it went well, but most of the experience was quite negative. i'm feeling proud of myself that i didn't lose patience until we'd passed the two hour mark, but gd had lost hers way before and we ended up having a generally shitty evening.

he apologized on his own, which i'm proud of him for, but i don't know if he really *gets* the lesson (this is his second "grounding", and it doesn't feel like the first one was so long ago) or if we're going to have to go through all this again...

anyway, i managed to have a constructive evening. but just before going to bed i felt my throat start getting sore, so i'm at home today hoping it's not going to become a thing. of course i would get sick two days before we get to enjoy an adults evening with friends with a babysitter looking after mr smear...

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this morning's been going well so far. i got mr smear to school on time, got the dishes done, took the broken plunger that we bought on friday back to the store, picked up better gear to deal with the mold problem that we've been dealing with the last couple of weeks...

now, to work.