Rommie wrote:
Perhaps this is rather dark humor of me, btw, but I couldn't help but notice for the longer flight the lady next to me was maskless, yet carefully wiping down everything she touched. I kept thinking to myself "lady, if only you knew..."
I'm with you. When I started getting symptoms (but had just tested negative) I made one last trip to Target. For the first time I was not judging the maskless for potentially putting others at risk; I was smugly thinking, "it's because of people like me that you should be wearing one." Of course, with so much covid going around in our area, there's a good chance that a lot of them are temporarily immune and not in need of masks! I actually stopped judging people not wearing masks a while ago. I realized that a lot of the time I don't even notice who is and isn't wearing one.
Day 5 according to the CDC for me, day 8 for Rooster. She still tested positive today, but very faint compared to yesterday. I'm not due to test until tomorrow.
I miss my boys! I hate going out into the kitchen briefly and not being able to clean it. (Neither MrPi or I are super clean, but there are certain things he just doesn't get to.) I miss my cat. (There she is, yowling again outside my door.) I miss outside. I'm worried about how tired I feel when I take a walk. And I'm so, so bored. Tv, movies, podcasts, cross stitching, internet, all get old after days of nothing but those. I've read some magazines but it's really hard to focus on a book.
Fortunately I'm feeling pretty normal. A cough now and then is all I have. Poor Rooster has a pretty bad cough but otherwise she feels fine.
I've pretty much stayed away from work. We get federal emergency leave if we report our sick time related to covid. So I figure if the government is going to pay my workplace for my time off, I'm not going to work. I've just kept up with emails to some extent. I told my reports and boss to text me if there is something they need from my before tomorrow, and I've just gotten one request from my boss. Fortunately my new report started last week, and she's already been able to step in to do some things that would have just gone undone this week. I'm actually pretty proud of my supervisory skills. I'm confident in the capability of my reports to be able to cover things in my unexpected absence.
I am not looking forward to going back to work, though. I think even if I'm negative I'll stay home tomorrow and attack emails all day. I don't want to get to work and just be too exhausted to work. And I really don't' want to do zoom meetings, especially some one-on-ones I have. I might have to power through them, though. At least it's a 3 day weekend afterward. I must say, with everything going on at work and home, this was a good week to be sick.
Still keeping fingers crossed that the boys can go camping. They are fine so far but I know that every day they are in the house is a potential exposure today so we have to stay diligent. We just have to get to no symptoms and a negative test for both of them on Sunday morning. On one hand I feel like they should stay home because I'd hate for them to start having symptoms during camp. On the other hand, by being vaxxed and boosted, with no symptoms, and a negative test, they would be doing everything right.
Too bad ignorance isn't painful.
"Standing at the forefront of human ignorance." Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
(I went straight to the bedroom, and he's gone now until I feel better.)
