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1) I voted yesterday. It was easy, with hardly any wait, because I'm lucky enough to live in a place where there's no voter-suppression effort happening.
2) Work is frantic and will only get more so for the next two months. One person from my team (I have a team now! if you can call two people a team) has been out since Sunday due to possible COVID exposure and a winter storm that closed the COVID test locations for a few days. The other is going to be out on Tuesday because she's working at the polls, which is an excellent thing for her to do but may mean I'll be trying to do 3 people's jobs by myself. I worked an 11-hour day on Wednesday, and a 9-hour day on Thursday, and I am tired. Today's a day off, then back to work tomorrow, but at least it'll be a short day to make up for the long ones.
3) Today, not having a physical therapy appointment (those ruin me for the entire day), I lounged around and then managed to tidy up a bit, vacuum, and mop the kitchen floor. This made me feel a bit less despairing about my own little corner of the world.
4) The rest of the world, on the other hand . . . *sigh*. After I finished my tidying I looked at the latest COVID numbers for my area, and they are not good. New Mexico was doing really well for the first months of the pandemic, due to an early and fairly strict lockdown. Then we opened up a lot and are now reaping the consequences.
5) I'm reading Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems, which I bought as an actual paper book after finding it in, of all places, a supermarket book section. I'd been meaning to buy it on paper, but hadn't wanted to order from Amazon and was putting off ordering it from anywhere else. It's good and enjoyable but also pretty harrowing in places.
6) Paper books are heavy! Especially when they're made of the thick high-quality paper that can have illustrations on both sides without bleed-through. This is the first paper book I've bought, or even read, in a long time, because I switched to ebooks when my vision was bad (before my cataract surgery), liked them, and never switched back.
7) I want to buy Jonny Sims' upcoming novel Thirteen Storeys as a paper book, and I may end up ordering it from Amazon UK because I know they know how to ship books overseas. Don't wanna order from Amazon, but . . .
8) I actually don't think Amazon is innately terrible--small local businesses are over-romanticized and the usefulness of centralization is under-valued. I just wish it would be properly regulated and taxed.
9) I wish I could post coherently about anything, but I am so tired. So so so tired. Depleted. I've been working through 7+ months of pandemic now, and my supposedly progressive employer took away our "hero pay" (*spits in disgust at that patronizing name*) at the end of August, and they're also being obstructive and shitty about giving me a job title or a wage that remotely compensates for everything I'm doing, and they're also being obstructive and shitty about covering trans-related healthcare ("maybe next year; no, not 2021, 2022."). I work and sleep and nothing is fun except Rusty Quill, and right now that's not fun either because Discourse is happening again, and I am so tired.
10) Sorry? I know this is hard for everybody. But I'm very tired.
11) ETA 1: Yesterday I ran into someone I used to work with, who greeted me with, "If it isn't Miss [Deadfirstname] Lastname." Now, this is a very nice person, who doesn't know I'm trans because I wasn't out when we worked together, and it wasn't a discussion I wanted to have on the sidewalk outside a store, so I went along with it. Awkward.
12) ETA 2: To end on a happier note: I'm roasting a bunch of veggies (potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower, and daikon) and cooking a pork chop for dinner. I'm looking forward to eating real food after too long (due to work + tiredness) of reheated frozen things.
2) Work is frantic and will only get more so for the next two months. One person from my team (I have a team now! if you can call two people a team) has been out since Sunday due to possible COVID exposure and a winter storm that closed the COVID test locations for a few days. The other is going to be out on Tuesday because she's working at the polls, which is an excellent thing for her to do but may mean I'll be trying to do 3 people's jobs by myself. I worked an 11-hour day on Wednesday, and a 9-hour day on Thursday, and I am tired. Today's a day off, then back to work tomorrow, but at least it'll be a short day to make up for the long ones.
3) Today, not having a physical therapy appointment (those ruin me for the entire day), I lounged around and then managed to tidy up a bit, vacuum, and mop the kitchen floor. This made me feel a bit less despairing about my own little corner of the world.
4) The rest of the world, on the other hand . . . *sigh*. After I finished my tidying I looked at the latest COVID numbers for my area, and they are not good. New Mexico was doing really well for the first months of the pandemic, due to an early and fairly strict lockdown. Then we opened up a lot and are now reaping the consequences.
5) I'm reading Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems, which I bought as an actual paper book after finding it in, of all places, a supermarket book section. I'd been meaning to buy it on paper, but hadn't wanted to order from Amazon and was putting off ordering it from anywhere else. It's good and enjoyable but also pretty harrowing in places.
6) Paper books are heavy! Especially when they're made of the thick high-quality paper that can have illustrations on both sides without bleed-through. This is the first paper book I've bought, or even read, in a long time, because I switched to ebooks when my vision was bad (before my cataract surgery), liked them, and never switched back.
7) I want to buy Jonny Sims' upcoming novel Thirteen Storeys as a paper book, and I may end up ordering it from Amazon UK because I know they know how to ship books overseas. Don't wanna order from Amazon, but . . .
8) I actually don't think Amazon is innately terrible--small local businesses are over-romanticized and the usefulness of centralization is under-valued. I just wish it would be properly regulated and taxed.
9) I wish I could post coherently about anything, but I am so tired. So so so tired. Depleted. I've been working through 7+ months of pandemic now, and my supposedly progressive employer took away our "hero pay" (*spits in disgust at that patronizing name*) at the end of August, and they're also being obstructive and shitty about giving me a job title or a wage that remotely compensates for everything I'm doing, and they're also being obstructive and shitty about covering trans-related healthcare ("maybe next year; no, not 2021, 2022."). I work and sleep and nothing is fun except Rusty Quill, and right now that's not fun either because Discourse is happening again, and I am so tired.
10) Sorry? I know this is hard for everybody. But I'm very tired.
11) ETA 1: Yesterday I ran into someone I used to work with, who greeted me with, "If it isn't Miss [Deadfirstname] Lastname." Now, this is a very nice person, who doesn't know I'm trans because I wasn't out when we worked together, and it wasn't a discussion I wanted to have on the sidewalk outside a store, so I went along with it. Awkward.
12) ETA 2: To end on a happier note: I'm roasting a bunch of veggies (potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, cauliflower, and daikon) and cooking a pork chop for dinner. I'm looking forward to eating real food after too long (due to work + tiredness) of reheated frozen things.
