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ffloThe pull-down menu for year of birth at St. Joe's suggests so, anyway.
Just approved the payroll & did a little quick work, though it's Sunday. Earlier I sorted some of the piled-up laundry & got a load going, plus got some recycling out, including breaking down a bunch of boxes. My initial spirit to get after house things was sapped, somehow, when I came to a torn satin pillowcase, knowing my choice were sew it up or throw it out--- donate was off the table on that one. I have the matching pillowcase. Dunno what-all is involved in how that moment drained some momentum right out of me.
Picked up a library guitar yesterday, as part of my first foray into the world in days. One of my colleagues doesn't leave his apartment building for weeks, and I start to think I could get that way, at least while there's ice on the ground. Thaw's a-comin', though.
Late Friday they got me the form for requesting special accommodation at the office. I'm hoping to get the option to come in but not the requirement of so many days a week. But doubt on whether I should try crept in again when the CDC came out with its "not so much" mask thing, and that added just a little to my not liking dealing with doctors and my compulsion to fret over how I might be perceived in some negative ways. Got so far just now to get on the doc's group's website, where it was distressing to see that not only has my thyroid drug gone up in cost, as if it weren't the generic---is this the latest scam to enrich the rich more? there are a lot of us with a thyroid condition---but also that last doc's appointment I had is going to cost me almost $200. (I could go on extensively about how I use the black market for CPAP supplies & therapy, cuz it's significantly cheaper with the insurance scheme I'm currently subject to, so that money ends up not counting toward my high deductible, effectively raising it even further.) (It's evil, this health care system.) (All those ads for the hospital that charges families of children with life-threatening conditions nothing, cuz people donate money--- why the hell can't we just pony up big taxes and have everybody get the health care they need? Oh, cuz it wouldn't further enrich rich people sufficiently? Grrr.....)
So wait, where was I. Just copied the info for the dermatology referrral.... Yeah, I guess I might as well ask the doc for a statement. ...
In fact, I just did. Yikes.
Some of my department & I were playing Jackbox games on Friday. One of them & I came up with some custom prompts, and one was something like "First thing you'll do when you're back in the office." We had 2 choices to vote on from the answers people gave, and everybody voted for "Go home." Whatever all some folks may miss about the office---and I miss things about it---we're not going back to what it was like before. And that's appropriate, as there's really no need for us to be going to those rooms every day to sit at computers for 8-ish hours straight and do our jobs. And disease threat isn't the only reason not to require such a return.
But, CDC and waning Omicron aside, disease threat is still a reason for me, right now, to ask not to have to go in 3 days a week. I think. I mean, I guess I'll find out what happens, if I do get the note & I do go through with asking. Why is that so hard? Like the pillowcase thing, I don't fully understand me. Sometimes moreso than others.
Haven't yet looked at the Ukraine news today. Suppose I'll do that. And chores. But not all the chores. Be picky.
Just approved the payroll & did a little quick work, though it's Sunday. Earlier I sorted some of the piled-up laundry & got a load going, plus got some recycling out, including breaking down a bunch of boxes. My initial spirit to get after house things was sapped, somehow, when I came to a torn satin pillowcase, knowing my choice were sew it up or throw it out--- donate was off the table on that one. I have the matching pillowcase. Dunno what-all is involved in how that moment drained some momentum right out of me.
Picked up a library guitar yesterday, as part of my first foray into the world in days. One of my colleagues doesn't leave his apartment building for weeks, and I start to think I could get that way, at least while there's ice on the ground. Thaw's a-comin', though.
Late Friday they got me the form for requesting special accommodation at the office. I'm hoping to get the option to come in but not the requirement of so many days a week. But doubt on whether I should try crept in again when the CDC came out with its "not so much" mask thing, and that added just a little to my not liking dealing with doctors and my compulsion to fret over how I might be perceived in some negative ways. Got so far just now to get on the doc's group's website, where it was distressing to see that not only has my thyroid drug gone up in cost, as if it weren't the generic---is this the latest scam to enrich the rich more? there are a lot of us with a thyroid condition---but also that last doc's appointment I had is going to cost me almost $200. (I could go on extensively about how I use the black market for CPAP supplies & therapy, cuz it's significantly cheaper with the insurance scheme I'm currently subject to, so that money ends up not counting toward my high deductible, effectively raising it even further.) (It's evil, this health care system.) (All those ads for the hospital that charges families of children with life-threatening conditions nothing, cuz people donate money--- why the hell can't we just pony up big taxes and have everybody get the health care they need? Oh, cuz it wouldn't further enrich rich people sufficiently? Grrr.....)
So wait, where was I. Just copied the info for the dermatology referrral.... Yeah, I guess I might as well ask the doc for a statement. ...
In fact, I just did. Yikes.
Some of my department & I were playing Jackbox games on Friday. One of them & I came up with some custom prompts, and one was something like "First thing you'll do when you're back in the office." We had 2 choices to vote on from the answers people gave, and everybody voted for "Go home." Whatever all some folks may miss about the office---and I miss things about it---we're not going back to what it was like before. And that's appropriate, as there's really no need for us to be going to those rooms every day to sit at computers for 8-ish hours straight and do our jobs. And disease threat isn't the only reason not to require such a return.
But, CDC and waning Omicron aside, disease threat is still a reason for me, right now, to ask not to have to go in 3 days a week. I think. I mean, I guess I'll find out what happens, if I do get the note & I do go through with asking. Why is that so hard? Like the pillowcase thing, I don't fully understand me. Sometimes moreso than others.
Haven't yet looked at the Ukraine news today. Suppose I'll do that. And chores. But not all the chores. Be picky.
