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Hopefully it's just a cold, but... 😷
2020-Jul-29, Wednesday 19:38
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sashagee is quarantined from her job. She started feeling bad yesterday with respiratory symptoms--sore throat, low-grade fever, fatigue, achiness--and her manager told her to go get a COVID test. Since a lot of the free city testing sites run out relatively quickly, especially with the protests that are still happening, she drove out to Auraora, an hour away, to get it. That was yesterday, and while she still hasn't gotten her results back yet, today she was told to stay away from work for at least a week or until she gets two consecutive negative COVID tests. She feels better today than she did yesterday, and I'm a little fatigued but don't have any another symptoms (especially not ones like loss of taste/smell or trouble breathing), but I'm glad her work is being cautious. Everything I've heard before now made me think that as soon as she got one negative test they'd order her back in. I think it's just a summer cold, but I'll wait on the results and see. If it comes back positive, then I'll get to invoke the "caring for someone with COVID" time category at work and also get a paid vacation of my own, at least until my symptoms get worse. And if it comes back negative, she still gets a vacation!
I'm still in the "if I get sick, I get sick, and if I die, I die" mood from months ago, so.
But I have a handy selection of masks for when I go outside! It's not like I have a bunch of places to go, but I did have to go pick up the farmer's market groceries.
( Farmer's Market dinner )
As I mentioned last week, Tisha B'Av starts at sundown today, so I've been drinking truly enormous quantities of tea and water and ate a gigantic lunch. I already wrote a bit last week about it's easier to get into a mourning mindset this year, but it's also strange. I took the day off and I've never taken Tisha B'Av off before, so I'm not entirely sure how to commemorate it. There's a livestreamed reading tonight of איכה (eicha, Eng: "Lamentations") tonight, along with modern poetry that Mishkan was soliciting from members. I didn't send anything in, but I'm curious what they'll get. Last year had an amazing poem called "Good Bones," and hopefully I'll find something as memorable this year.
It is not a day for celebration, but neither is most of this year.
One final note--איכה can also be read ayeka, meaning "Where are you?", the word that G-d asks Adam in Eden. Lamentations, then, is a reversal of that--the writers asking G-d, "Where are you?"
"Where are you?"
sashagee is quarantined from her job. She started feeling bad yesterday with respiratory symptoms--sore throat, low-grade fever, fatigue, achiness--and her manager told her to go get a COVID test. Since a lot of the free city testing sites run out relatively quickly, especially with the protests that are still happening, she drove out to Auraora, an hour away, to get it. That was yesterday, and while she still hasn't gotten her results back yet, today she was told to stay away from work for at least a week or until she gets two consecutive negative COVID tests. She feels better today than she did yesterday, and I'm a little fatigued but don't have any another symptoms (especially not ones like loss of taste/smell or trouble breathing), but I'm glad her work is being cautious. Everything I've heard before now made me think that as soon as she got one negative test they'd order her back in. I think it's just a summer cold, but I'll wait on the results and see. If it comes back positive, then I'll get to invoke the "caring for someone with COVID" time category at work and also get a paid vacation of my own, at least until my symptoms get worse. And if it comes back negative, she still gets a vacation!I'm still in the "if I get sick, I get sick, and if I die, I die" mood from months ago, so.
But I have a handy selection of masks for when I go outside! It's not like I have a bunch of places to go, but I did have to go pick up the farmer's market groceries.( Farmer's Market dinner )
As I mentioned last week, Tisha B'Av starts at sundown today, so I've been drinking truly enormous quantities of tea and water and ate a gigantic lunch. I already wrote a bit last week about it's easier to get into a mourning mindset this year, but it's also strange. I took the day off and I've never taken Tisha B'Av off before, so I'm not entirely sure how to commemorate it. There's a livestreamed reading tonight of איכה (eicha, Eng: "Lamentations") tonight, along with modern poetry that Mishkan was soliciting from members. I didn't send anything in, but I'm curious what they'll get. Last year had an amazing poem called "Good Bones," and hopefully I'll find something as memorable this year.
It is not a day for celebration, but neither is most of this year.
One final note--איכה can also be read ayeka, meaning "Where are you?", the word that G-d asks Adam in Eden. Lamentations, then, is a reversal of that--the writers asking G-d, "Where are you?"
"Where are you?"
