fatigued

 today was a struggle. i was exhausted for most of it, and that was pretty much from when i woke up in the morning.

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the trump and netanyahu press conference from last night was bizarre. half of what trump said seemed incoherent to me, but in the grand scheme of things what he's proposing is pretty much the only reasonable way to make peace... send the "palestinians" back to their original homelands (egypt and jordan) and make sure that we don't have any threats living on our borders.

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i took mr smear to school, saying goodbye before the big intersection to see how he handled it, and i think he handled it well. then i returned home and put together shelves, which took quite a while and saw me stripping one of my screwdriver heads :/

gd and i had some moments battling some more mold. and it was a rainy day, too.

gd had a consultation with the alternative medicine clinic, and they immediately made her an acupuncture appointment for the evening!

i rested a bit and watched some cowboy bebop while gd made use of the new shelves and cupboards.

i picked mr smear up, and his friend / our friends' kid asked if she could come over, so she did. the two of them watched minecraft videos on youtube until it was time to take mr smear to his evaluation.

mr smear and i were standing by the bus stop, i was facing him while standing between him and the road when a bus careened past the stop and sprayed water at us, soaking the seat of my pants and backs of my trouser legs. it was cold and rather unpleasant.

i dropped him off and found myself a (decaf) coffee, then (uncomfortably) sat down for an hour and thought about the database design of one of my side projects.

i picked him up, and he'd apparently been tired and had a difficult time with some of the tasks, but pulled through. i don't know how that makes me feel.. kinda proud of him for not giving up, i guess. which reminds me, i got a message from his "integration teacher" and complained about his hebrew teacher, and later saw that she'd responded with denial.

i'll have to deal with that in the morning.

we came home, had a bit of a fight about his hebrew reading, but managed to do a fair amount before accompanying gd to the clinic. once sure she was fine, we went to the mall for a falafel dinner, which was pretty good even though i had my eye on the family behind mr smear because i didn't trust their open coughing or waving ice creams around...

we got caught in the rain on the way back to the clinic, which fortunately stopped when we arrived because we had trouble getting a cab and ended up walking home.

bedtime went quickly (and smoothly, in spite of the fact that it's half an hour earlier than he's used to), and while i started putting together a bedside table for gd i got stuck when i realized i'd need to do some hammering, which i wasn't going to do after 9pm.

i've since spent a while playing inscryption, and now i'm enjoying a final cup of tea before hitting the hay. it feels like it's been a day.