read the whole paper first

last week, i posted how i proudly instructed my eight year-old son in the art of taking exams. i specifically told him to read the whole paper first.

how ironic, then, that not reading the whole paper first was the precise reason i've been struggling so much with the exercise i was given! in my defense, the exercise is written very strangely, almost like it's intentionally set up to confuse students...

it was about 4pm when my boss and i figured out that that was the source of the problem, and i made good progress until home time, and enough progress between putting mr smear to bed* and midnight.

i promised him i would finish the last two chapters of the second harry potter book, not realizing that that would take me until after 10pm...

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last night i slept a bit better, but still not great. this morning, gd informed me that the mattress definitely isn't good. i had a chat with the furniture store guy this afternoon, and tomorrow we're going to go in to try the one we originally wanted... this is such a demoralizing story :/

i can't help but wonder how the sofa story's going to go.

aside from a long day at work, i managed to register for the gym today. i'm going to try to do a test-run sometime this week if i can.