war and peace

i spent the rest of the evening fixing one of my packages, and the moment it came to rewriting the tests i said "screw that", bit the bullet, and subscribed to a cursor. money well spent already.

i also played a bit more shadowrun: dragonfall.

i got a pretty good night's sleep, and the day began pretty well. mr smear had some homework to complete before school, but not as much as we thought and he did it well. we left a bit later than we needed to, so i said goodbye to him a few blocks from the gate and came straight home, wondering how he'd fare if the sirens went off but pretty confident he'd be alright.

i picked up gd and we went through to the new therapist. she seems really solid, and we very comfortably performed our double-team mind-dump for the forty-five minutes we were there. i waited with gd until her bus arrived, then walked down one of the nicer streets to my office.

the day was a definite improvement over the previous two, but still long and plenty meh. i had a meeting with my boss, we argued a little but generally things seem good, and i did manage to complete my task and make some progress into the next one, so things are alright.

i ate waaaay more food than i should have today, even if it was mostly really good food.

during the afternoon, while i was supposed to be working, i had an extended moment just sitting back in my chair and daydreaming of a post-war middle east in which tehran and quatar were done and everyone else was just quietly rebuilding and westernizing.

i may have shed an emotional tear.

after a pleasant walk home, i was pleased to see mr smear's face again - gd gave him a long-overdue haircut today - and to hear that he had a good time at his friend's place, and even impressed him on a real piano :)

we're going to have dinner soon, mr smear's quietly doing his homework until then and i'm listening to carnavas for the first time in years and feeling pretty at peace for the moment.