CWs: sickness, covid, food

αὐτονοσοκομία, “self-care for the sick” (why not; I mashed up αὐτο- auto- “self” + νοσοκομία nosokomia, “care for the sick”)

So. After almost 4.5 years of avoiding it, my spouse and I contracted COVID, each for the first time. They started feeling ill last Sunday (not almost a week ago, but the Sunday before that), and were likely contagious as of around last Tuesday. My spouse went to urgent care since they were not feeling well at all, and was told “oh, it’s allergies” and prescribed an allergy medication and sent home. No COVID test or anything (really?!?!). Last Wednesday they were also feeling awful, and same with Thursday. I started feeling not great last Wednesday, had a rough night that night, and woke up Thursday to go to work (our office day, once per week). Got to the office, started setting up my laptop and such, and got a text from my spouse: “I think you should come home.” Uh oh. My mind immediately went to, “oh, they tested positive for COVID.” And sure enough, they responded that they took a test not long after I left, and it was positive. So, since I spend most of my time with my spouse, there was a super nonzero chance that I would test positive as well, and I didn’t have a test on hand in the office.

Last updated 28 Nov 2024

I’ve been collecting links on Classics topics for years. Lexica, texts, language learning resources, &c. &c. And I would love to share it with y’all. I have a lot of links in my bookmarks, many of which are probably dead, but for this post I’m going through and curating a list of the best links I have found. I’ll try to split it up by category as well as I can.

I’ve been wanting to write a post on this for awhile, inspired both by my friend Gersande’s post on the subject, as well as one that inspired them. So here’s my attempt, of whatsoever quality it may be (qualiscumque sit). I’ll probably add to this over time!

I need to do more with this, but I’m mostly just making an update so the “read more” function works a little better.

It apparently pulls the first 3 paragraphs, and it’s pulling the whole entry somehow. Hopefully this fixes it.

CWs: food

We had Juneteenth, 19 June 2024, off of work for a holiday. So it made for an interesting week, broken up into two halves of two days of work each. It was nice having the day off; we mostly did errands and such around the house, and had a lazy morning. Then two more days of work, which mostly went OK. I’m happy it’s Friday when I’m writing this. I’m listening to good music and relaxing. Hung out with my spouse for the evening, and we hung out with the kitties too. Lyra was kind of a fireball for a long time, but she’s calmed down mostly.

“20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE…”

I have never watched Max Headroom before. It’s always been something on the periphery of my awareness, and of course I’m fairly familiar with the infamous Max Headroom TV signal hack. But I never saw the real thing until very recently. I just finished 1x05, “War.” I’ve watched it very slowly and hadn’t resumed it until yesterday, as I’d been busy with Millennium and other stuff.

CWs: horror, fictional violence, sexual assault

No, this is not a Chrono Trigger post. I just finished watching through the series Millennium. I remember coming across it as a kid when it came out (~1996), and enjoying the idea, since it was a nice companion piece to The X-Files and by the same creator, Chris Carter. But the show had a darker agenda, going to sometimes much stranger places than the latter show. I remember Lance Henriksen starred in it as the protagonist, Frank Black (what a name!), and I didn’t remember much else about it. I dimly remembered that Terry O’Quinn, later of Lost fame, was in it as well, but I didn’t remember what role he played or anything. I hadn’t thought about it for years.

in transcursu, “by the way, cursorily” (lit. “in the running through, in a cursory mention,” from transcursus, -us, m., ultimately from the verb transcurro, -ere, “to run through”)

I really like that phrase. In reading Latin letters recently, I came across it for the first time; it is a fun synonym for the older, one-word expression obiter, “by the way, in passing” (often seen in the phrase obiter dicta, “things said in passing/on the way”). And I wanted to write something quick, basically, raptim (“in haste”), for y’all.

CWs: mental health, suicide mention, family stuff, religion, death, food

I worked for 3hrs on Latin this morning right after getting up, finishing what I need to do for this week. Back to it tomorrow. I didn’t really know what to do with myself for the rest of the day after that. We didn’t want to go anywhere, and just wanted to chill, especially after having a busy weekend last weekend and the weekend before. So that’s cool.

We just got back from what will likely be our big vacation of the year. We went to Seattle for 5 days (Sun-Thurs), and it was really lovely. Got in Sunday afternoon, left late Thursday afternoon. Tuesday was rainy pretty much all day, which was actually pretty nice. We had rain jackets, so we just wore those and were totally fine. Glad we went to Bainbridge Island on Monday when it was nice and sunny. I’ll write at a little greater length soon, but wanted to write something tonight at least. We didn’t get in until almost 1am on Friday morning, and didn’t get home until almost 2am, so we were pretty tired the next day. We picked up the kitties from boarding first thing Friday morning and it seems to have gone well. The cat boarding place we’ve used for years, which was in town as well, is closing, so we had to find a new place. This place is maybe 15-20min down the road, so not terribly far, but not nearly as close as the other place. However, I think this trial run went very well and we’ll be using them again. They said the kitties were great and sounds like they had a good time!

I’m being a little hyperbolic here, but at the same time I’m not. I haven’t had a proper vacation in about 7 months (when we went to San Francisco), and I have all of next week off, as well as Memorial Day, so that will be lovely. I love my job, but it’s exhausting and draining even on the good days, so recharging and self-care are of paramount importance. And I’m grateful to have the time off, although this will clean out most of my available leave time, but that’s OK. After a particularly busy run of things, I often conjure up the memory of that Spaceballs scene where they’re running through the corridors, being pursued, and everyone leaps through the door just before it closes. That is a pretty accurate way to describe how I feel right now. I think there’s also a track on the Ecco the Dolphin soundtrack called “After the Storm,” so maybe that bubbled up to the fore of my consciousness as well, I dunno.