General update (*salutes*)
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sorcyressHere's some stuff:
*I was sick for basically all of early last week. It was bad gastro-stuff, a little fatigue, and nothing else. I've seen a doctor, after which I immediately began feeling much better, so that...was...good? Anyways, the doctor says that he's not encountered any cases of covid that were _just_ gastro stuff.
*Also I took a covid test on _fucking Tuesday_ and have not yet received the results. I'm a little anxious, and definitely called the city yesterday to be all "double-you-tee-eff-mates". This is a known problem, I will get emailed my results "eventually" and in the meantime I'm just gonna...be...weird forever because that's how we roll in 2021.
(I have no reason to think I have covid except "my body did a thing". The dozen or so folks who were curious after Scots Pinewoods have all tested negative)
*Being sick-ish and bedridden has honestly dovetailed pretty nicely with the whole "so I'm burned out like fuck" thing, and I've basically done nothing since Pinewoods. It has been _really really nice_ most of the time, and a little crazy-making some of the time because ~productivity~ or whatever. Capitalism is a fucking drug mate, and I'd really rather not.
*I'm re-reading Narbonic! I've just started 2004, which is post Unstuck in Time and about to be some hot spoiler on spoiler action. This remains one of my favourite comics ever written, it's just _so good_. Maybe when I finish I'll try and do the deep dive on re-reading Skin Horse, but that's a little more daunting (it's like...12 years and still wrapping up, compared to Narbonic's 6)
*I've been flirting a lot, which has been Good Times. There's been some interesting meta stuff in the back of my head, about the differences between flirting fully online in 2007 versus 2021. The fourteen years between have led to some fairly fundamental differences about how this all goes, including that pictures are suddenly a trivial part of the experience. Oh, and there's this whole complicated thing with being Always Online as opposed to having designated times when you're at your computer and available for IMing?
The fundamental awkwardness and sheer joy of "hey you're cute and you think I'm cute wanna be cute together?" is still largely unchanged, and deeply wonderful to play with.
*Also, flirting with someone subby and then visiting my sir means I start filing away Ways To Be Mean so like, it's both a fun adventure for me, and stuff I can use for the future. Yay for paying good attention? ANYways.
*I have now watched the first three episodes of Ted Lasso and goddamnit, Cat Valente is extremely right this show is _fucking delightful_. It's earnest in a time of my life when I badly need earnest. Like...I always need my Happily Ever Afters, that's just how I do, but three episodes into this and I already feel very satisfied with the overall thing, not like everything's been torn to pieces and if I just watch another episode then I'll maybe get my heart put back in my chest.
Not unlike Leverage, that feeling. And yes, I know there's new, I really need to watch it but I'm bad at watching things.
Note to self: Ifgenarti is not watching this in specific, I really need to tell them they will love it and encourage them to do so.
*I think that's all I've got for the moment. I am theoretically traveling to CT next week(end?), no, I haven't worked out how either. I was sorta delaying on buying bus tickets until I got my negative covid test back, but uh. You know. That's not really quickly happening. There's work-work I need to do too, but I strongly suspect it's all going to happen in the week immediately before school.
I am stupid privileged that I'm actually getting to recover from some of my burnout this summer, unlike a lot of people. Of course, next school year is going to be Differently Awful (word on the street is no remote, yes fully masked), so we'll see how well I do.
Love yinz. Stay groovy.
~Sor
MOOP!
*I was sick for basically all of early last week. It was bad gastro-stuff, a little fatigue, and nothing else. I've seen a doctor, after which I immediately began feeling much better, so that...was...good? Anyways, the doctor says that he's not encountered any cases of covid that were _just_ gastro stuff.
*Also I took a covid test on _fucking Tuesday_ and have not yet received the results. I'm a little anxious, and definitely called the city yesterday to be all "double-you-tee-eff-mates". This is a known problem, I will get emailed my results "eventually" and in the meantime I'm just gonna...be...weird forever because that's how we roll in 2021.
(I have no reason to think I have covid except "my body did a thing". The dozen or so folks who were curious after Scots Pinewoods have all tested negative)
*Being sick-ish and bedridden has honestly dovetailed pretty nicely with the whole "so I'm burned out like fuck" thing, and I've basically done nothing since Pinewoods. It has been _really really nice_ most of the time, and a little crazy-making some of the time because ~productivity~ or whatever. Capitalism is a fucking drug mate, and I'd really rather not.
*I'm re-reading Narbonic! I've just started 2004, which is post Unstuck in Time and about to be some hot spoiler on spoiler action. This remains one of my favourite comics ever written, it's just _so good_. Maybe when I finish I'll try and do the deep dive on re-reading Skin Horse, but that's a little more daunting (it's like...12 years and still wrapping up, compared to Narbonic's 6)
*I've been flirting a lot, which has been Good Times. There's been some interesting meta stuff in the back of my head, about the differences between flirting fully online in 2007 versus 2021. The fourteen years between have led to some fairly fundamental differences about how this all goes, including that pictures are suddenly a trivial part of the experience. Oh, and there's this whole complicated thing with being Always Online as opposed to having designated times when you're at your computer and available for IMing?
The fundamental awkwardness and sheer joy of "hey you're cute and you think I'm cute wanna be cute together?" is still largely unchanged, and deeply wonderful to play with.
*Also, flirting with someone subby and then visiting my sir means I start filing away Ways To Be Mean so like, it's both a fun adventure for me, and stuff I can use for the future. Yay for paying good attention? ANYways.
*I have now watched the first three episodes of Ted Lasso and goddamnit, Cat Valente is extremely right this show is _fucking delightful_. It's earnest in a time of my life when I badly need earnest. Like...I always need my Happily Ever Afters, that's just how I do, but three episodes into this and I already feel very satisfied with the overall thing, not like everything's been torn to pieces and if I just watch another episode then I'll maybe get my heart put back in my chest.
Not unlike Leverage, that feeling. And yes, I know there's new, I really need to watch it but I'm bad at watching things.
Note to self: If
genarti is not watching this in specific, I really need to tell them they will love it and encourage them to do so.*I think that's all I've got for the moment. I am theoretically traveling to CT next week(end?), no, I haven't worked out how either. I was sorta delaying on buying bus tickets until I got my negative covid test back, but uh. You know. That's not really quickly happening. There's work-work I need to do too, but I strongly suspect it's all going to happen in the week immediately before school.
I am stupid privileged that I'm actually getting to recover from some of my burnout this summer, unlike a lot of people. Of course, next school year is going to be Differently Awful (word on the street is no remote, yes fully masked), so we'll see how well I do.
Love yinz. Stay groovy.
~Sor
MOOP!
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