some good news

 the private therapist has been getting weird since learning that we're switching to a public therapist... either way, she's apparently been doing a phenomenal job with mr smear, as evidenced by the report we received from his teacher this evening. not only has he been integrating well with the class, but the teachers have been "negotiating" his peculiarities and getting good deals in the process.

it apparently helps that his homeroom teacher is a bit OCD about hygiene, because it appears that if she's worrying about it then he doesn't feel that he has to :P

this final bit of news has blown us away - probably just as much as his sports teacher - is that after a year of him refusing to participate in anything relating to sports, he played soccer with a bunch of other kids this week, had fun, and then requested to be moved to sit near his new soccer friends.

when we told him that we'd heard that he played and were proud of him, he seemed embarrassed 🤦

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i got into the office today to a new urgent task, so i had to put the previous urgent task on hold. which i'd only just resumed after the urgent tasks of the on-call duties, and which itself had disrupted another urgent task, and none of these tasks appear on the gantt chart we're supposedly working with.

i spent most of the day *bash*ing my head into virtual walls, but did end up with a good feeling as i figured out how to do something tricky with nox that i wasn't confident was even possible...

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i'm heavier than i should be again. i was losing weight for a while, and it feels like a week of on-call anxiety and stress-eating set me back considerably :/