some relief

 i did get some sleep last night, even if it was plagued by weird nightmares. today was in large part a good saturday. i played through the first chapter of crying suns, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience (on easy). mr smear and i watched more one piece, which was great fun but he's having a hard time not repeating the adult language...

i had an interesting chat with horseman that went on far longer than planned, then rushed to take mr smear out. but mr smear didn't want to go out...

... most of our walk / playground time was enjoyable. two parts that weren't:

1. i was trying to explain statistics gathering, and the moment the example came out of my mouth i knew it was a mistake. he just couldn't wrap his head around the fact that i was using the example as illustration, and not literally asking him to do the survey. he *hates* his previous teacher, and i asked him how we would find out how his whole class feels about her without asking every single kid...

2. both of us needed to pee, and the public restrooms were disgusting.

i'd been hoping to catch up with the mongoose, but he didn't pitch. when the sun began to go down we caught a bus home, by which time my legs were sore. i'm honestly not entirely sure why i've been so tired today...

we finished elemental, and it wasn't bad. it was very clumsy and formulaic, but overall i guess we kinda enjoyed it. we're still reading the wind in the willows. it's going well.

i passed out on the couch next the gd for a while, then got up to take care of some things. once those things had been taken care of, i got stuck playing sudoku - daily challenges that say "easy" but are definitely not easy. i'm used to doing hard/expert levels, and i'm finding myself stuck on easy/mediums for the first time...