Vaccination Day
2021-Mar-12, Friday 10:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Today's the day that I get my second dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine! Soon I'll be immune, one of the lucky people in the zombie movies who somehow don't react to the rage virus, and I'll be able to...still stay at home most of the time because really, what is there that I'd want to go and do? The CDC's updated guidelines means I'll probably be able to have a Seder this year since Pesach is two weeks from now but it's not going to be a huge one. It'll be me, ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee, britshlez, and maybe one other person. It won't be until much later in the holiday cycle that things get back to normal, though I am excited for sashagee to go to her first Seder!
We've gotten a ton of emails from high up in the AMA the last few days over an incident with podcast put out by JAMA. The emails didn't have any context, so I just notice that something was horribly insensitive and we'd need to do better and recommit ourselves to racial equity and it was a lot like every time I log onto social media against after Shabbat and try to reconstruct what the Discourse is. So I looked it up and that article is a good summary, but here's the pull quote that JAMA tweeted out:
I started a new TTRPG!thosesocks invited me to play in a Scum & Villainy game (a derivative of Blades in the Dark). We've had one session so far and most of it was taken up by character and ship creation, so I can't really say that much about how it plays, but we started off with a mission to steal a bunch of speeder bikes (essentially) and came up with a plan to do it via staging a race and then winning. My character is a "gothic hood ornament," a mystic devoted to fighting the Dark Between the Stars, since I read this setting primer and the space feudalism, humanocentrism, guilds, and vanished aliens called the Ur all sound a lot like Fading Suns, one of my favorite RPGs ever. I'm looking forward to seeing where the game goes!
Lastly, our drier is fixed! I didn't realize it was broken, but it had always been weird--the windows fogged up when it was used and I thought that something might be leaking, but it's stuck in a closet and since it's a washer/dryer combo it was far too heavy to move myself without risking it falling on me, which was not something I wanted to happen in a pandemic. Last weekend my parents came over for dinner and for my father to do some Dad Things around the house and whensashagee mentioned how dusty everything is, he managed to wiggle his way over the top and find out that the hose had been disconnected at the back! Probably by something falling off before I even moved in--there were drier sheets and a detergent back there that I've never used. My father reconnected the hose, I vacuumed out the inside of the closet, and now hopefully it won't be nearly so dusty in here all the time. Good thing too, with a baby coming.
Alright, now time for that town hall.
sashagee, britshlez, and maybe one other person. It won't be until much later in the holiday cycle that things get back to normal, though I am excited for sashagee to go to her first Seder!We've gotten a ton of emails from high up in the AMA the last few days over an incident with podcast put out by JAMA. The emails didn't have any context, so I just notice that something was horribly insensitive and we'd need to do better and recommit ourselves to racial equity and it was a lot like every time I log onto social media against after Shabbat and try to reconstruct what the Discourse is. So I looked it up and that article is a good summary, but here's the pull quote that JAMA tweeted out:
"No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care? An explanation of the idea by doctors for doctors in this user-friendly podcast [...]Even the idea that they were going for clicks is belied by the content of the podcast, which has a lot of complaining about how terrible it is to be called racist. So we're meeting this afternoon for a town hall where they're going to go over steps forward and what we're going to do. We'll see if there's any good actionable steps they announce
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I started a new TTRPG!
thosesocks invited me to play in a Scum & Villainy game (a derivative of Blades in the Dark). We've had one session so far and most of it was taken up by character and ship creation, so I can't really say that much about how it plays, but we started off with a mission to steal a bunch of speeder bikes (essentially) and came up with a plan to do it via staging a race and then winning. My character is a "gothic hood ornament," a mystic devoted to fighting the Dark Between the Stars, since I read this setting primer and the space feudalism, humanocentrism, guilds, and vanished aliens called the Ur all sound a lot like Fading Suns, one of my favorite RPGs ever. I'm looking forward to seeing where the game goes!Lastly, our drier is fixed! I didn't realize it was broken, but it had always been weird--the windows fogged up when it was used and I thought that something might be leaking, but it's stuck in a closet and since it's a washer/dryer combo it was far too heavy to move myself without risking it falling on me, which was not something I wanted to happen in a pandemic. Last weekend my parents came over for dinner and for my father to do some Dad Things around the house and when
sashagee mentioned how dusty everything is, he managed to wiggle his way over the top and find out that the hose had been disconnected at the back! Probably by something falling off before I even moved in--there were drier sheets and a detergent back there that I've never used. My father reconnected the hose, I vacuumed out the inside of the closet, and now hopefully it won't be nearly so dusty in here all the time. Good thing too, with a baby coming.Alright, now time for that town hall.
