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wednesday was a bit better than tuesday, and thursday was a bit better than wednesday. but they were still long, difficult days and i've entered the weekend feeling a bit overwhelmed.

mr smear became really sick on wednesday - messy sick - and he was still pretty sick yesterday. he was still sick today, but much less, barely an excuse to spend the day indoors and not doing much.

work-wise, i'm not feeling on top of things at all and i know i need to be taking a break this weekend, but i'm also dragging the perpetual feeling that i should be working. so that's not great.

my back and neck have calmed down a little since wednesday, but i've got proper and painful swelling of what appears to be my occipitalis muscle - i've been referring to them as my "headsticles" :P

today - aside from an hour or two of work in the morning - was mostly about reading, napping, watching a bit more of redline, playing slay the spire, trying to play inscryption with mr smear, trying to invent a card game with him, learning a little about tarot, starting to read through the 7 october parliamentary commission report, (and i haven't even looked at the terror tunnel maps yet), and watching a lot of random youtube videos while doing minesweeper "quests".

oh, yeah, and gd and i went for a walk and had coffee this morning without mr smear, and it was kind of like a date night :P