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Mar. 12th, 2021 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressSo a year ago today was a Wednesday, with the normal "end school for the kids an hour early so teachers can have PD1" thing. And it was the Wednesday where they threw out the regular agenda and for the first time started any kind of conversation of "what should we do if...".
A few hours later, school was cancelled for the next two days.
It has been an extremely long two days. A full year of two days since I last taught in my classroom. Realistically, it's going to be another five months of two days until I get to teach in a classroom again. (Well, to be perfectly fair, Turdmunch Baker may arrange things so that I get thrown back into a classroom with just as much warning as I got when I was thrown out.)
In the last year, I have:
The extra toilet paper I mentioned in the post from a year ago? I had bought two packs of 9 rolls in late February, because it was on sale and it's not like toilet paper goes bad or becomes something I won't need to use. I believe we finally finished them both up and allowed our household to buy more toilet paper about a month ago.
(To be fair, two months in a hotel and also when Rey moved in for reals she brought over her random stash from her apartment so like, we just kept not needing to dip into our supply really.)
I hope we can all exist together again someday.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Professional Development
2: "The Brunet Bisexual Belmont Bungalow", adding as many other B-adjectives as you could think of such that the official number of b's used is n.
MFA is the Ministry of Feline Advancement, also called MiniCatte!
3: My Christmas shopping consisted of a) making an order for pick-up at the LEGO store and biking to Assembly row --I walked in, gave them my name, took my order, and walked out and if you had told me in 2019 that I would be capable of doing that with the LEGO store I would've laughed in your face-- and b) biking to Q's nuts, carefully standing outside and reading all the menus, waiting for the store to be totally empty except the single employee, walking in, reading off the order I had written down while waiting, taking the nuts, and walking out. Less than five minutes combined.
4: I've had two tests total, one was in late December when I woke up with seriously scratchy throat and possible low fever (negative) and one was yesterday as my baseline testing to eventually come back to school (negative).
A few hours later, school was cancelled for the next two days.
It has been an extremely long two days. A full year of two days since I last taught in my classroom. Realistically, it's going to be another five months of two days until I get to teach in a classroom again. (Well, to be perfectly fair, Turdmunch Baker may arrange things so that I get thrown back into a classroom with just as much warning as I got when I was thrown out.)
In the last year, I have:
- Cemented my tentative attempts at re-forming a living situation with Ezri, and had it turn into a proper family, three adults and a housecat. Moving out of Danza Hausa and into the nB's Bungalow/MFA2 was the single best decision I made to prepare for the pandemic, before anyone knew it was going to be a thing.
- Speaking of which, I moved! First into a hotel for two months (what the fuck, that actually happened? That was horrible, why did I do that???) and then into a frankly fantastic house in an amazing location (ah right, that's why).
- Celebrated Thanksgiving with a big meal of all the things I like to eat and also I suppose Ezri and Rey made some stuff they like. Celebrated Christmas barely at all, by mailing presents to my family and buying myself dice. Celebrated my birthday by packing and moving and driving around town and carrying furniture and yes having ice cream eventually, quietly, at the end of it all.
- Ran what I am going to call a legitimately kick-ass session of virtual Pinewoods
- Fucked off to the woods for a day and hung out at real not-quite-Pinewoods and ate fish and chips and swam in the pond and looked at the stars and wandered around on hiking trails and spent time with a family who is not my own but feels like they could've been in another world.
- Played a _lot_ of video games. Animal Crossing, Nethack, Heroes of Might and Magic, and then eight billion phone games.
- Watched all of Steven Universe (with Austin, and by "all" I technically mean "just the original TV series and not the sequel series), and all of She-Ra (with Ezri and Rey) and the last season of Good Place (with Ezri) and most of Parks and Rec (we're in the last season!)
- Celebrated both Austin and Bee's birthdays with "parties". Bee's had four people present, Austin's had five, both felt like an UNTOLD LUXURY of crowd. (My entire pod is six total people, and has been basically the entire pandemic, except for a couple months in the summer when Bee and Austin left it and my pod went down to three)
- Celebrated Rey's birthday with cake. I forget how and if we celebrated Ezri's birthday and I feel badly for that now.
- Not left the state since stepping back on Massachusetts soil after the flight home from California. It is I believe the only time in my entire life where I have stayed in one state for an entire year. To be clear, I ended 2019 in Texas, flew to Philly on the 31st, started 2020 in PA, then drove up to MA, and flew to California six weeks later.
- Gone to a single real live concert, outside in the bitter cold, huddled against Austin as he streamed the music from his phone and we watched the lights flash in sync.
- Gone to a small handful of fake-live concerts, hosted in various ways on Zoom or YouTube or Facebook or other methodologies.
- Deeply burned out. To begin this post I went back and read the first post on the topic and the last post that was normal and I can recognize that who I was is not currently accessible to what I currently am.
- Consistently worn a mask whenever I left the house, washed my hands a lot more frequently, ceased almost entirely all discretionary shopping3, followed the directional arrows in grocery stores, not hugged my friends.
To the best of my knowledge, not contracted covid at any point4. To the best of my knowledge, not passed it on to anybody else. - Given blood once, and am booked for my second pint of 2021 next Thursday. Gotten a flu shot. Gotten one dose of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine, with my second scheduled before the end of the month.
- And as I am immortal, I have survived. I am not thriving, nor blooming, nor existing with joy, but I have survived and will continue to survive, and the point of it hurting then was that I know someday I will look back on this bitter-hearted for how broken and traumatic I didn't realize I was.
The extra toilet paper I mentioned in the post from a year ago? I had bought two packs of 9 rolls in late February, because it was on sale and it's not like toilet paper goes bad or becomes something I won't need to use. I believe we finally finished them both up and allowed our household to buy more toilet paper about a month ago.
(To be fair, two months in a hotel and also when Rey moved in for reals she brought over her random stash from her apartment so like, we just kept not needing to dip into our supply really.)
I hope we can all exist together again someday.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Professional Development
2: "The Brunet Bisexual Belmont Bungalow", adding as many other B-adjectives as you could think of such that the official number of b's used is n.
MFA is the Ministry of Feline Advancement, also called MiniCatte!
3: My Christmas shopping consisted of a) making an order for pick-up at the LEGO store and biking to Assembly row --I walked in, gave them my name, took my order, and walked out and if you had told me in 2019 that I would be capable of doing that with the LEGO store I would've laughed in your face-- and b) biking to Q's nuts, carefully standing outside and reading all the menus, waiting for the store to be totally empty except the single employee, walking in, reading off the order I had written down while waiting, taking the nuts, and walking out. Less than five minutes combined.
4: I've had two tests total, one was in late December when I woke up with seriously scratchy throat and possible low fever (negative) and one was yesterday as my baseline testing to eventually come back to school (negative).
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on 2021-03-14 12:29 am (UTC)----
We finally had to buy toilet paper a month or so ago. :-) I actually placed a bulk order from the local tiny grocery so I could do curbside pickup rather than go into the supermarket -- paid $42 and got 48 rolls. Should last us a good part of the year! I considered asking around to see if anyone still had surplus from the beginning of the pandemic, but... I'm picky about getting TP from recycled paper.