diff --git a/05/01.sh b/05/01.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# still Paula fronting! i think!
+data="$(cat /tmp/05 | sed 's/    / _ /g;s/\[//g;s/\]//g')"
+
+x=0
+IFS=$'\n'
+(
+	while read line; do
+		[[ "$line" == '1 '* ]] && break
+
+		IFS=' '
+		uwu=($line)
+		for (( i=0; i<${#uwu[@]}; i++ )); do
+			[[ "${uwu[$i]}" != _ ]] && meow[$i]="${meow[$i]} ${uwu[$i]}"
+		done
+	done
+	read line;
+	while read line; do
+		ins=($line)
+		from=$((${ins[3]}-1))
+		to=$((${ins[5]}-1))
+		
+		asd=(${meow[$from]})
+
+		echo "moving ${ins[1]} things from ${ins[3]} to ${ins[5]}"
+		echo "from, initial: ${meow[$from]}"
+		echo "what? ${asd[@]:0:${ins[1]}}"
+		echo "to, initial: ${meow[$to]}"
+		meow[$from]=${asd[@]:${ins[1]}:${#asd[@]}}
+		meow[$to]="$(echo ${asd[@]:0:${ins[1]}}| rev) ${meow[$to]}"
+		echo "from, after: ${meow[$from]}"
+		echo "to, after: ${meow[$to]}"
+		echo ---
+	done 
+
+	IFS=' '
+	x=''
+	for (( i=0; i<${#meow[@]}; i++ )); do
+		a=(${meow[$i]})
+		echo "$i: ${meow[$i]}"
+		x="$x${a[0]}"
+	done
+	echo "$x"
+) <<< "$data"
+
diff --git a/05/README.md b/05/README.md
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+# day 05 (actually 09, oops)
+
+again, put your things in /tmp/05
+
+## part 1
+
+biggest part of what threw me off is the fact that I can't read.
+I have assumed that multiple crate moves were meant as
+"grab n crates at once", while in reality they meant "grab one,
+then another, then another..."
+That's why L31 has that funky subshell with a rev.
+
+Wrapping everything in () was a fun hack I thought about to parse
+the header separately from the rest of the code - probably wouldn't
+be needed if Tulip was fronting and writing the code, she likes to
+accept input from stdin (whereas I (Paula?) like to accept input 
+from argv)