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1. I have handled so. many. support. requests. So many. (So many.)
   
2. alexwlchan has written A Bunch of bugfixes and I am v proud!
   
3. momijizukamori has tentatively Fixed a problem that was making the support board Very Unhappy and I am approximately 95% pathetic gratitude by volume.
   
4. I am increasingly convinced that the way to make scones Work is to tip out the bit that has actually stuck together, mix More Liquid into the remaining, and only then try combining the lot of them. (The previous batch I took this approach to did work; today's batch was... less successful, because I forgot to and didn't.)
   
5. A is a sweetheart and got me a Larger Bucket for proving my bread in. That I... should probably actually use, whoops.
   
6. Today I have arranged loaning one acquaintance a car battery charger, and acting as a friend's proxy for the EU elections. Hurrah for communities and interconnectedness.
   
7. Tomorrow I will (among other activities) be seeing my mother, at which point I will be picking up A Wide Variety Of Artefacts from the Mouldering Ancestral Pile (that she ended up driving back up-country for me after the most recent round of house clearance, because there was no way I could carry even a significant minority of it back on public transport). I am not sure A is quite emotionally prepared for this reality, but there we go; I look forward to providing you all with an inventory.
   
8. Two more things from the knife skills course: we were taught how to make garlic paste, which I utterly failed to understand in the moment but which Adam has subsequently patiently explained to me at home and Now I Can Do It; we also had explained to us A Trick for Mangos, being that if you roll them gently from side to side they always end up resting in the same place -- with the seed parallel to the horizontal. I am excited by all these things.
   
9. I skipped out on therapy on Thursday by dint of my therapist having forgotten the session and me not reminding them (in the way I ordinarily would) because I Didn't Want To; rather to my surprise I received an e-mail later that evening, in which they pointed out that they didn't have me down for a session and inquired as to how I was doing. I've just e-mailed back to request an appointment net week, and even -- having written up my notes from the previous session -- I'm cautiously looking forward to it.
   
10. Lots else to look forward to next week, as well: a trip to Kew, a birthday dinner, some time at the plot. Maybe planting my tomatoes on, even. I'm currently feeling relatively relaxed and relatively optimistic and relatively cheerful; long may it continue. (And if it doesn't then, well, that too shall pass.)