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Teaching workshops is always that combination of fun and crazy-making... had a little syntax hangup in front of twenty students today, scrambled around until I realized that @import exists in CSS, @include is a perfectly reasonable figment of my imagination. Are those grey hairs poking into critical neurons? I like this group, they’re flexible, they understand when little snafus are pointed out to them, they bear with me and ask good questions. But they probably all did have time to get a coffee while I bashed away, incredulous at the browser not @include-ing the code I was demonstrating.

One more pair of workshops to go... I think these have, in conjunction with the lecture-hall stuff on images and linking, given them a good flying tour of how to think about the Web as data.

I’ve given up on approach #1 to snapping and straightening in the quick-and-dirty interpreter (which has so far taken two months to drag, kicking and screaming, into partial existence)... so, I’ll blow it down and start again. It’s all about picking when to intervene and when to let things be. Kind of like real life (half of what I know about real life has been driven home by programming and formal math :P)

I’ve got to get better at knocking down and restarting... and at doing stuff in little pieces. It’s too easy to get overwhelmed or overcommitted otherwise. This week’s looking a little better for that, though.

I wish I were back on October 14th or so. Everything looked crazy but on the cusp of being over the hump then. Then again, I’d probably still be back here, blowing stuff down, burning up precious think time, chewing over @includes and wondering how I was going to sleep in the bed I’ve made.