overall: yecch.

 i got a fairly good night's sleep last night. weird dreams, a memorable moment being a stranger silently, aggressively, thrusting a pair of tweezers at me and indicating that i needed to help him remove an infected ingrown hair.

mr smear stayed home from school this morning.

work... work was a shit-show. it began well enough, with me just needed to clean up my project in preparation for handing it over as i take three days leave, and the vegan sufganiyot (donuts) at the building's happy hour were not unappreciated.

but i had trouble with my devcontainer that took a frustrating amount of time and stress to resolve - and that initiated the bad vibe with my boss - and then we had a proper argument (or fight) when we discovered that the requirements for the project were signficantly different to what i understood and that nobody's caught that until 4pm this afternoon, in spite of the fact that i've thoroughly documented everything and described exactly what i've been doing in regular syncs with my boss.

it took me two hours to refactor, and by that i mean "completely overhaul", the design and implementation; then a further 45 minutes discussing the day's unpleasantness with my manager* until we were somewhat satisfied that we understood where each of us went wrong, and how we got into the mess, and we all have some lessons we need to learn.

* or maybe he's not my manager? nothing's clear at all.

it was with a really heavy feeling that i left the office for my long weekend.

between getting home and sitting down for dinner, i played rounds with mr smear, which was (surprisingly?) fun!

then we sat down for dinner, and gd unloaded her anxieties on me in a way that pushed my buttons, and the meal was eaten in tension.

...

at least by the end of it we were in a better place, at least. we called my mom, lit the chanukah candles, sang the songs, and now mr smear's getting ready for bed while i get ready to go visit the mongoose for a bit of a game night.