8/23

i'm thankful that yesterday, even though i said i was going to wait for help from the kind engineer today rather than continue to bash my head against it, i knuckled down and inspected stack traces more closely and googled partial error messages and figured out that the problem with my refactoring of my work project, the problem that was causing me to feel constant total despair and making me completely question my life and career choices and basic competency, was the presence/absence of four (4) curly brackets in two lines of code. i'm thankful for the sharp spike of neurochemical relief i felt as i fixed those four (4!) curly brackets and everything suddenly worked again, and also to have manically laughed in my empty office at the absurdity of the fact that i had let myself become so completely disenchanted and distressed because of four (4!!!!!!) fucking curly brackets. i'm thankful that i am now crystal clear on the difference between named and default imports and exports in ES6 and am thankful that i was able to get through it on my own and am thankful that i no longer feel as though my blood was replaced by cortisol.