A thousand Chads, falling off ottomans whilst drumming

I’m being sort of silly, but imagine a thousand Chads yelling at elected officials. (What you’re doing is great, and also we’re all bits of sand forming dunes of change and stuff. Think multiplicatively!)

- heart resting rate is in the mid-70’s, but I still feel little bursts of weirdness every now and then
- still taking it very easy, but I did wash some dishes, & took a shower. Both things were a bit enervating.
-sinuses have cleared up significantly. It is glorious to have a left nostril again

SCIENCE!!

One more thing I am grateful for:
- So far, no loss of smell or taste, no phantom tastes or smells, either. I hope this remains the case.

Thanks!

Also, I am dealing with a menstrual cycle whilst having Covid, which feels like adding a heat challenge in Hades or something

Anyway. I am slowly on the mend. I wish desperately that I felt better than I do, but also grateful it is not a lot worse.
Speaking of which, I am an hour late on my next Paxlovid dose, but I just took a shower and needed to rest, and the meds are downstairs.

^ addendum to the usage of "pablum" - Look: TWW is a very smart show with a lot of smart people working on it. It did what it did, and it said what it said, but it was also shot in glowing soft golden light most of the time like a car commercial, like a lil' mousetrap of idealism

- I feel like the Paxlovid is doing a ton of work. My body has more ... clarity? right around the time the meds hit and my mouth tastes sour and metallic.
- I have more energy today
- Can one die from Gatorade poisoning? Let's find out!
- The West Wing is still absolute pablum for this illness

Thank you - I am processing while also not feeling well, so it's been a journey.

Also: heart rate spikes are wild. The fever spikes are also weird. Keeping it all at bay with said radical rest and acetaminophen. I also forgot to have some coffee this morning, so I spent the whole day with a headache until I dosed a bit of caffeine. Headache mostly gone.

So weird that you're all getting sick all the time. So. Weird.

And don't fucking get mad at me for calling this out - get mad at the people who have gutted public health and sold you a bill of goods. I'm not the enemy, here. I actually fucking care about you.

Please, please be masking out in the world. I let my guard down, and I was likely running errands with pre-symptomatic covid the whole week. Fresh, well-fitted N95 mask on my own face, but the guilt is still there that maybe I compromised someone else's health. Like, people are STILL "always sick."

I played some Fallout earlier, and closed out my session as soon as I felt like my brain was getting overworked a little. I've spent literal hours laying about, doing mostly nothing. Radical rest. This makes the day really long, btw.

I'll get through this. It's not as bad as I thought it might be, but also I am on Day 2, and my RAT later in the day yesterday had SUCH a dark line. I really soaked up some particles, it seems. I canceled my therapy appt for today because of brain fog and feeling like shit.

- generic DayQuil is breaking my fever. I feel very hungry at times, but also apathetic and tired. I need to get more calories into my body, but it takes effort.
- M'colleague dropped a whole bunch of stuff at my door earlier today - soups from Starship Subs, gatorade, OJ, all sorts of stuff. <3