It's Tuesday, of that I am certain, as I am going back to "work" in a few minutes. I work from home and, yes, I really AM putting in my full effort at work. I still have a lot to do.
I am still waking up coughing, but that is my asthma, not quite under control. I do NOT have Covid-19, according to my last real in-person doctor visit. I am sticking with that. My last conversation with my pulmonologist gave me pause. He wants to try immunotherapy when this is all over. Ok. Whatever it takes so I will feel "normal" When I said that to my dr , he laughed and said he had never actually seen me "normal" I did make a joke that normal was not a good description of me anyway. The poor man sounded tired.
Being "Safer at home" is wearying. I am afraid to leave the house and a trip to the trash can at the end of the property seems like a covert adventure. Chris goes to the store. Yesterday he suggested I go and stay in the car, just to get out of the house. Maybe next time. This must be how agoraphobics feel. I am listless.
I HAVE been digging into Ancestry and have seen some very cool links to my family past. I found that i AM a daughter of the American Revolution, just not where I THOUGHT, but along a farther line. there is a whole cool story about the guy and I will be looking him up to see if I can find more information about him. He would have been my eight times great grandfather. THAT was a long time ago.
Still I can't wait for the "All Clear" to sound. I read a lot of memes that talk about Anne Frank, but I wonder how her mother fared in all of this. Due to the sanitized version of her diary that everyone reads in middle school, Anne comes off as a sweet dreamy girl. But I wonder about the harsh reality of being in hiding. While it is true, we are hiding in some respects, the brutal reality of the Frank family is an interesting juxtaposition. I wonder about the truth of their daily life, not just what Otto Frank wanted the world to see.
Perhaps I will have to see if the book is online. I am listening to audio books a lot. I find the sound filling up the room to be helpful and the escapist novel I am listening to a counter to the reality of what is going on in the world.
And here I am at home, looking for little chores to do (except the ironing!) to fill the hours - sometimes even minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe isolation is really intense.
My neighbor, with who I am friends, is SO wierded out that he won't let me come and talk to him from the safety of my side patio - disconcerting, how if I take a step, he takes another step back.
And he spends his time disinfecting the house he lives in alone. Well, he is also a trump supporter, and thinks the man is handling things so well........yesterday I passed the remark that trump now thinks Germany should be our enemy again, and I got a long diatribe about fake news.
Then, just to frost the damn cake, this is my first month without ANY sub income, since the City council did a volte face and decided subs would NOT be paid after saying we would be. I worked on my April budget last evening - ouch. I guess I AM going to have to see if I qualify for unemployment.
Tomorrow - April Fool's Day - WHAT can be waiting for us?
Tom
And I was originally told I could go back to work at the library today. HA! April Fools!
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