Weekend update: my wife is feeling better, but on Christmas Day my younger son developed a cough and fever. He went into isolation with my wife and tested positive yesterday.
So far: COVID - 2, Healthy - 2, so it's a tie, but a scary one.
Oldest son and I are masking at home and trying to distance a bit (he's a teen so this is no trouble for him).
Stay safe and get your boosters, people.
Welp. I guess it's gonna be a thing. A public thing.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/domesticate-your-badgers
negative brain spiral
I was reminded this morning that self-assessments are due at work today.
So I am now assessing myself.
Which reminds me how little I feel I've accomplished in the last six months.
Which leads me to avoidantly _not_ doing my self-assessment.
Except it's due tonight so I feel worse about not working on it.
So now I am in a negative brain spiral and tooting at y'all to try and get myself back on track.
AND I get to hire a software curation specialist at NYU as a part of this work! Taking applications now: https://apply.interfolio.com/91696
Ugh, everything is happening at once. Work has gone crazy in two different dimensions, kidlet is in summer camp that takes 45 minutes to get to on transit (so that's 1.5 hours morning and again in afternoon each day), and partner is having a virtual conference during her last week at this job so is also completely swamped.
Maybe I can nap next week.
Further calamity! I boiled the tea, _then_ discovered that the ice trays in the freezer haven't actually frozen, so there's no ice to cool off my tea.
Truly I am living in the worst timeline.
Oh yeah, I should tell y'all _what_ book kept me up til 3 am.
I was reading _The Fall of Doc Future_ (https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/82363551272/fall-of-doc-future-contents), which is pretty great near-future posthuman superhero end-of-the-world stuff.
There's a lot more talking than punching, and the (not graphic, but frequent) sex scenes tell me a *lot* about the author's kinks, but it was great and I am going to try real hard to avoid staying up til 3am again with the sequel (also online).