mostly chatty, some covid
May. 12th, 2020 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfish-I bought a slanket and it makes me feel like a decadent cozy noble in a weird futuristic space play. Totally cozy, down for it.
-My dear husbeast is missing my actually dressed up self, and I also, kind of miss my dressed up self. But snuggly clothes are key.
-I have been slowly trying to get the dog into the bathroom, and it's working! This is mostly out of a desire to make the eventually process of taking a bath as pleasant and unworrisome for her as possible. So far she's gotten to the point where she will come and hang her head into the (empty) tub and take treats or a drink from the handheld showerhead. I'm debating - she's about 50 lbs, so it would be nice if she would be willing to get into the tub herself. (Particularly since she has shown a general aversion to being picked up. That, also, we need to train for, but her skin issues and general smelliness make the bath a slightly more pressing target for me.) My current plan involves steps made out of my foldable playmatt, which is what she uses to get onto the couch, and then padding the bottom of the tub with some towels for a landing site. We'll see how it unfolds.
- I took a short midday bike ride today and was surprisingly productive! I think that it may be an every other day addition.
- My work has presented some actual real deadliness, so it's kind of nice to have a kick in the pants to get some things done. [Edit: I meant to write "deadlines" but I am so delighted with the visual pun I am leaving it!]
- I have started reading the book for the book club that I need to finish by tomorrow and it is, actually, such a fast read and a good book that I might be able to get myself there in time! The Wrong Stars - a very fun read.
-After watching BY JEEVES, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical the Wodehouse books, I kind of want to watch the Fry and Laurie adapation of the novels - it seems like the kind of fun, slightly formulaic and fundamentally conservative English nonsense that would be fun to watch.
-The Downton Abbey movie made it to HBO and I watched it and there's very little to say about it that doesn't devolve into a personal tirade against Julian Fellowes - he's in love with the aristocracy and I think they need to fear the guillotine a bit more than they current do.
-I am going to bake some chicken and veggies this evening - should be delicious!
- NOTE: following bullet points are corona related!
-The quarantine state of mind is having 3 solid days where you feel pretty well adjusted, followed by a sudden, unexpected dip into what we call "the hell zone" - Dan Sheehan seems to have this one right!
- My workplace has been talking about opening up again - for students in the fall is one plan in the works, but I have heard that the leadership has already started to take meetings and talk about opening up our office building in a modified form for the end of the month. That seems ludicrous - our office in in a building famous for its poor ventilation, and there is no way to social distance in some parts of the building effectively. I will push to stay at home as long as I can, for my own health and safety, but I also hope that we can get better guidelines from our (fairly reasonable) governor about the actual steps that we need to take and would have to meet before we'd return to the office. Honestly, it seems like it would be safer to just write off the next three months as either months we'd be ordered to stay at home, or months where it would be safer to work from home, and adjust from there. Our division does not need to have physical connections.
-Also, I kind of am quite tired of working from home, and would like to be able to branch out a bit, but that's not something I am willing to risk anyone's LIFE to do.
-My dear husbeast is missing my actually dressed up self, and I also, kind of miss my dressed up self. But snuggly clothes are key.
-I have been slowly trying to get the dog into the bathroom, and it's working! This is mostly out of a desire to make the eventually process of taking a bath as pleasant and unworrisome for her as possible. So far she's gotten to the point where she will come and hang her head into the (empty) tub and take treats or a drink from the handheld showerhead. I'm debating - she's about 50 lbs, so it would be nice if she would be willing to get into the tub herself. (Particularly since she has shown a general aversion to being picked up. That, also, we need to train for, but her skin issues and general smelliness make the bath a slightly more pressing target for me.) My current plan involves steps made out of my foldable playmatt, which is what she uses to get onto the couch, and then padding the bottom of the tub with some towels for a landing site. We'll see how it unfolds.
- I took a short midday bike ride today and was surprisingly productive! I think that it may be an every other day addition.
- My work has presented some actual real deadliness, so it's kind of nice to have a kick in the pants to get some things done. [Edit: I meant to write "deadlines" but I am so delighted with the visual pun I am leaving it!]
- I have started reading the book for the book club that I need to finish by tomorrow and it is, actually, such a fast read and a good book that I might be able to get myself there in time! The Wrong Stars - a very fun read.
-After watching BY JEEVES, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical the Wodehouse books, I kind of want to watch the Fry and Laurie adapation of the novels - it seems like the kind of fun, slightly formulaic and fundamentally conservative English nonsense that would be fun to watch.
-The Downton Abbey movie made it to HBO and I watched it and there's very little to say about it that doesn't devolve into a personal tirade against Julian Fellowes - he's in love with the aristocracy and I think they need to fear the guillotine a bit more than they current do.
-I am going to bake some chicken and veggies this evening - should be delicious!
- NOTE: following bullet points are corona related!
-The quarantine state of mind is having 3 solid days where you feel pretty well adjusted, followed by a sudden, unexpected dip into what we call "the hell zone" - Dan Sheehan seems to have this one right!
- My workplace has been talking about opening up again - for students in the fall is one plan in the works, but I have heard that the leadership has already started to take meetings and talk about opening up our office building in a modified form for the end of the month. That seems ludicrous - our office in in a building famous for its poor ventilation, and there is no way to social distance in some parts of the building effectively. I will push to stay at home as long as I can, for my own health and safety, but I also hope that we can get better guidelines from our (fairly reasonable) governor about the actual steps that we need to take and would have to meet before we'd return to the office. Honestly, it seems like it would be safer to just write off the next three months as either months we'd be ordered to stay at home, or months where it would be safer to work from home, and adjust from there. Our division does not need to have physical connections.
-Also, I kind of am quite tired of working from home, and would like to be able to branch out a bit, but that's not something I am willing to risk anyone's LIFE to do.
