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I am le tired but I wanted to cough up a report before I went to bed. Not much of significance has been happening lately, thank god. It's mostly get up, drag myself through a few routines, try to write and usually not manage it, get a handful of coding lessons done, eat dinner, go to bed. I think my tomato plants may have gotten blighted and are in the process of dying, which is aggravating but unfortunately not very fixable. I need to take a few hours and deal with the various weeds, the blight, take a look at what can be saved and what can't be, etc, and that may happen tomorrow.

Today was the interview with the tech school, which meant I spent a lot of the day tidying both in case they got a glimpse of an untidy office and, more realistically, so I had something useful to do that I'd been meaning to do for a couple weeks now, that would work off nervous energy and keep me from freaking out. It worked! My bookshelves are so much more orderly. My floor and the rest of my office isn't, but I can do that... well, if I'm doing garden tomorrow maybe that'll happen Thursday.

(We also took Murdock to the vet today to get him RE fitted with a blood sugar sensor, fortunately not at our expense since the last time the problem was with the sensor. Now we can more properly calibrate his insulin dose. He's hanging in there, despite being schlepped to the vet so many times. Poor baby. We've gotten into a good routine with his twice daily doses though, so that's good.)

Ahem. Interview! I think the interview went really well. It turned out they did have a self-paced option, the details of which didn't seem apparent to me on the website? That might just be me, everything's very fuzzy right now, but I would also understand if that wasn't an option they wanted to highlight very much. I strongly suspect I got it highlighted to me because I said in my application that I have a programming background, and the interviewer said most of their students did not. Let alone the fact that I've been working with HTML and CSS since they were first launched, and those are two of the four languages we'd be learning. I get the feeling that the interviewer quickly landed on "yes self-paced is definitely best for you."

So that happened, and in a day or two I should know their decision with my application. And we'll see how that goes. I'm hopeful! I'm also freaking exhausted, I'm not sure that was the day's worth of nervous energy, I think that was a few weeks worth of AAAAAUGH. At least. But whatever, I have books to read, I have pandemic emergency assistance until the end ish of October and who knows how long after that, depending on what Congress does (probably nothing). And I have my family to help out until I'm done with tech school and on to the job search, which this tech school promises to get me a job within six months or my money back. I hope they deliver. I think they will. I've been working on Code Academy and while saying it's 'easy' would be cavalier and not entirely accurate, I'm not struggling with it in the overall. I understand code. I've been learning it in one form or another since I was very wee. It's mostly a matter of syntax, limits, function (not programming functions but the function of this or that language), and getting used to working with it. Plus I've got friends who are promising to hand-hold me through working on collective projects, double plus I've got project ideas of my own, all of which ought to look good as a self-directed person doing a self-paced course when it comes time for job interviews.

Here's hoping.