Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Day 295: More of the same. I did rally enough to go to work (from home) today, and will for the rest of the week. I am extremely fortunate in that I have a job where I can easily take sick days when I need, and am also able to work from home on days when I’m not sick enough to take a sick day but still sick enough to not want to risk bringing this into the office. Too many people don’t have those options.
Day 294: Day four of this head cold, and very over it…but it’s obviously not over me just yet. Watching two Marvel movies in one day maybe was a bit much inanity, but it was also right about the level of braining I could manage. Apparently other people at work have been hit with this bug, and it’s nothing more than a doozy of a cold, possibly exacerbated because it’s the first cold I’ve had in around four or five years at this point.
Day 293: Still sick; another day of doing as little as possible. Read a bunch of my current book (Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars), finished season four of For All Mankind (very good), and watched The Last Voyage of the Demeter (not very good). At this point, unless a miracle occurs overnight, I think tomorrow’s going to be a sick day instead of heading back to work.
Day 292: Well, it’s official. I’m sick. This sucks. It’s a cold (or, at least, I haven’t popped positive on my COVID tests), and I don’t like it one bit.
Day 291: Woke up this morning with a bit of a scratchy throat and cough. While it was minor, we didn’t want it to become anything major, and since we didn’t have any real plans for the day, we just decided to “not”. Stayed in bed, read books (I got through most of a Dresden Files novel), watched TV (just one episode of the latest season of For All Mankind to go), napped, and let my body do what it needed to to, hopefully, not develop into anything worse. At the end of the day, I’m still kinda horky and mildly gross, but I’m not any worse, so we’ll just see how tomorrow goes.
Day 290: “Let’s cuddle and talk about Star Trek”. What better way to spend a Friday evening? ;)
Day 289: An unexpected work conversation:
“Michael! My computer’s on fire!”
“What?!”
“I can’t touch it and it smells like burning!”
The computer hadn’t gone to sleep properly when unplugged and closed before being dropped into its computer bag to sit for an hour while class was being taught…so it just sat in its bag and overheated itself.
Thankfully, after a couple hours of cooling off, it booted, apparently none the worse for wear (or, at least, not enough worse as to prevent it from working).
I’m used to being the office ad-hoc “so we don’t have to call IT” IT person. But I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear “my computer’s on fire” when I came in to work today.
Day 288: Got a number of compliments on both my shirt (X’s and O’s and the occasional heart) and shoes (bright, all-over pink Converse) today. Just right for Valentine’s Day!
Day 287: I got asked today if the design on my shirt was donuts or bagels. It’s definitely donuts. Nothing against bagels! I like bagels. But as a fashion choice, I definitely go for donuts.
Day 286: Just lounging around between the end of the workday and dinner. Got lots done today, but as with many workdays, it wasn’t terribly photogenic.