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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 47: My sadness meter is roughly around about 100% today. All the layers of grief are making a tiramisu of sadness. Lots of things I wish I could tell my...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 54: A friend brought their puppy for me to play with and I had brain therapy on Saturday; we happened to linger by the dog park just long enough on Sunday...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 61: Despite wearing sunblock and a hat, I managed to get sunburned this weekend. It’s really unusual for us to get enough sun for that to be a problem!...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 68: I woke up to a very swollen hook finger (swollen so much it can neither bend nor be straightened out. Hook!) and that set the tone of the day. Smol...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 75: Triple Monday! Half my work day was spent sitting and waiting for tech support to figure out their problems. Half my emotional reserves were used up...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 82: Turns out the local blackbirds like goldfish crackers and dog treats, but they do not like cinnamon cookies. For six days we’ve been experimenting with...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 89: What a DAY. Meetings upon calls upon meetings upon questions, and all before I got to the actual work that needed to be done. Made myself eat a fast...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 96: Ngh, I feel several shades of terrible. No specific symptoms, just intense fatigue and the creeping crud type feeling of “ugh”. My dental hygienist...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 103: No, the giant boxes destined for UPS didn’t go out. There were multiple hours this weekend where I thought “I should…” but the body said “hahaha you’re...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 110: The more miserable and angry I get at work, the more I wish for things I can’t change. Like how Captain Awkward is awesome and I could wish I’d been...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 117: Ok so my note on Friday was written before I saw the endorsement for Kamala Harris and all that followed. Now I’m cautiously joyful that they seem to...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 124: A Twitter thread about Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite children’s books made me realize I’ve never read Mary Norton’s The Borrowers. I’ve put it on hold at...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 124: My struggle with brain fog for the past decade has routinely made me feel akin to Charlie from Flowers for Algernon on the back end of the experiment:...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 124: For the past two weeks, PiC has had at least one bad driver encounter on their bike commute. I hate it so much. Just this weekend, a bicyclist was hit...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 131: After issuing a draconian rule to JB last week, up by 7 am and out the door by 8 am, we made it to school without running like our butts were on fire....
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 138: Starting the week on a low point again. The cumulative effects of the last week, last week, and this weekend were too much. By Sunday mid-morning my...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 145: I had vague notions of going somewhere with the family today, maybe a BART adventure to … I dunno. And with that stellar planning, instead I: Finally...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 152: Reminding myself as much as I legitimately hate almost everything about my job right now, I hate self inflicted injury and being poor more. So don’t...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 159: COVID vaccines are being administered nearby but they still don’t have them for 5 and under so I’m waiting til Smol Acrobat can get vaccinated so the...
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Year 4 of COVID in the Bay Area. Year 5, Day 166: Trainer time! I’m gaining confidence that I can do exercises without immediately sending myself into CFS / fibro traction and there’s something...
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