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1. Are you an Essential Worker?
Nope. The paperwork for it was in process (I’d been voluntold on the basis of the union rules, seeing that I’m junior on my team), but then someone else volunteered to take it.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
I had a week of stress-drinking at the beginning, with occasional spikes of it thereafter. Altogether, combined with the run of March holidays, it’s amounted to a four-fold or greater increase over my usual intake. A lot of people wouldn’t blink at the sum total — it’s still only one drink every two or three days — but there are a lot of alcoholics in my family, many of them dead of it, and I’m as jumpy as fuck about having “I can’t cope with this, I want a drink” feelings. Which I’ve absolutely been having, and which have sometimes culminated in my having a drink.
(FYI, I don’t want advice on this topic: that’s what my therapist is for.)
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts?
No kids.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
None, I’m still working full time. I’ve got a couple more hours in my day now, what with not having a commute, but not nearly so many as before I started this job, so I’m not even up to before-I-went-back-to-work levels of hobbies.
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
I’ve done none;grrlpup has done two. She’s aiming for once every two weeks right now, maybe three if the produce holds out.
6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
Rebuilding our emergency fund — we went into debt last summer over the sewer job, remember. Since I started this job, we’ve managed to pay off the debt, but we still don’t have the cash cushion we like to keep.
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
Birthdays, mostly. We’ll still celebrate, just at home.
8. Are you keeping your housework done? Ish?
More so than usual, because we’re here to do it and here to look at it if we don’t.
9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
The Fate of the Furious, last weekend. It was fun, but not my favorite of the series. I really liked… *consults wikipedia* Fast & Furious 6, partly for Gal Gadot, and partly because the Letty plotline hit hard one of my bombproof kinks.
10. What are you streaming with?
*cough* Not so much streaming, no.
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby?
Hahahahano.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
We’re eating much like we did before, except I’ve gone back to spam+rice+wakame for breakfast, now that I have time to fire up a frying pan. Other things I have time and access for again: marmalade tea and apples with peanut butter, both of which were difficult to swing at the office.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
I express myself with anxiety, not paranoia. And yes, the anxiety is intermittently back at pre-medication levels. Happily, I have a therapist for that.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
*knocks wood and refuses to answer the question*
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
It ends whenever it fucking it ends. In the meanwhile, it’ll get however bad it’s going to get, and we’ll cope the best we can.
But more concretely:
OHA is saying that before they start relaxing shelter-in-place orders, they want 1) Oregon deaths to be decreasing for at least two weeks, 2) the capacity to do 15,000 mostly-rapid tests a week (we’re currently at 10K/week, and mostly-slow), and 3) the ability to do widespread immunity testing. So, eh, maybe June before they start dialling restrictions back? And even then it’s going to be baby steps, not all-at-once. This isn’t going to end-end for another year or two: vaccine or herd immunity, whichever comes first.
16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Ask if I can pet a random stranger’s dog. Pet the cats who greet us on our walks. Put things on hold at the library. Hug my friends. Hopefully visit my mom and dad. Go out for birthday oyster shooters, assuming that there’s still anywhere to get them. All in whichever order the lifting of restrictions allow — the restrictions almost certainly won’t be lifted all at once.
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
Exactly where I am, thank you.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Walking the canyon trail down to the college commons for a lazy weekend morning writing date, with a stop by the library on our way back home. And I’m pre-emptively missing Wednesday afternoons at the river: I’d been planning on taking some vacation time this summer to align withgrrlpup’s half days.
19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
Never had any hand sanitizer, and we’re good for toilet paper.
ETA:grrlpup says we have a personal-size bottle of hand sanitizer down in the camping equipment. Obviously we haven't been using it, opting for hand-washing instead. (Our hand-washing song of choice is the first verse and chorus of Barrett's Privateers: if you begin in 1778, twenty seconds later you're a broken man on the Halifax pier. grrlpup, being a Colorado girl, sings it with a John Denver twang. I made the mistake of letting her know I think that's hilarious, and she's been trying to scrub the song of the twang ever since, so sad!)
20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
Yes, although we’d be jonesing for fresh food by the end of it. But we have Tang powder, so I don’t imagine we’ll get scurvy.
Additional questions, courtesy ofchina_shop:
1a. Are you in a vulnerable category?
No.
19a. Have you run out of anything else?
Eh, anxiety brain likes to yell about how we're nearly out of every blessed random thing that comes to its attention, but the truth is, no, we're not out of anything yet, nor are we in particular danger of running out of anything. (Cross-stitch fabric! it screeches at me, when I have done EXACTLY ONE cross-stitch project in my life, AND I still have scraps from that last project that I could use if I wanted, AND I have enough fiber-crafts supplies in this house to choke a whale if I tried.)
21. Has anything major happened in your life during the rāhui/lockdown?
Nothing, blessedly. If we could just keep having a nice quiet lockdown, that would be swell. *knocks wood*
22. What are you grateful for?
Having employment, and not just for the obvious reasons. If you asked me a month ago if my job would ever be one of the best things about my day, I would have laughed in your face. But during the workday I'm thinking about utterly mundane work things, and anxiety brain doesn't have the idle bandwidth to twiddle at me about crap, it's great.
I'm also grateful to be spending this time with my favourite person, and that none of our parents are in care homes.
23. Is there anything you'll miss about lockdown life?
Not having a commute. Being able to wander into the next room whenever work is stupid or boring, and drop a kiss on the top ofgrrlpup's head. Working in my jammies with my cat sprawled across my chest (even if I do spend a good deal of time begging her to be less pointy)... Basically, working from home is great, and I am not looking forward to going back to the office again.
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sara1. Are you an Essential Worker?
Nope. The paperwork for it was in process (I’d been voluntold on the basis of the union rules, seeing that I’m junior on my team), but then someone else volunteered to take it.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
I had a week of stress-drinking at the beginning, with occasional spikes of it thereafter. Altogether, combined with the run of March holidays, it’s amounted to a four-fold or greater increase over my usual intake. A lot of people wouldn’t blink at the sum total — it’s still only one drink every two or three days — but there are a lot of alcoholics in my family, many of them dead of it, and I’m as jumpy as fuck about having “I can’t cope with this, I want a drink” feelings. Which I’ve absolutely been having, and which have sometimes culminated in my having a drink.
(FYI, I don’t want advice on this topic: that’s what my therapist is for.)
3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts?
No kids.
4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?
None, I’m still working full time. I’ve got a couple more hours in my day now, what with not having a commute, but not nearly so many as before I started this job, so I’m not even up to before-I-went-back-to-work levels of hobbies.
5. How many grocery runs have you done?
I’ve done none;
grrlpup has done two. She’s aiming for once every two weeks right now, maybe three if the produce holds out.6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?
Rebuilding our emergency fund — we went into debt last summer over the sewer job, remember. Since I started this job, we’ve managed to pay off the debt, but we still don’t have the cash cushion we like to keep.
7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?
Birthdays, mostly. We’ll still celebrate, just at home.
8. Are you keeping your housework done? Ish?
More so than usual, because we’re here to do it and here to look at it if we don’t.
9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?
The Fate of the Furious, last weekend. It was fun, but not my favorite of the series. I really liked… *consults wikipedia* Fast & Furious 6, partly for Gal Gadot, and partly because the Letty plotline hit hard one of my bombproof kinks.
10. What are you streaming with?
*cough* Not so much streaming, no.
11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby?
Hahahahano.
12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?
We’re eating much like we did before, except I’ve gone back to spam+rice+wakame for breakfast, now that I have time to fire up a frying pan. Other things I have time and access for again: marmalade tea and apples with peanut butter, both of which were difficult to swing at the office.
13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?
I express myself with anxiety, not paranoia. And yes, the anxiety is intermittently back at pre-medication levels. Happily, I have a therapist for that.
14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?
*knocks wood and refuses to answer the question*
15. What month do you predict this all ends?
It ends whenever it fucking it ends. In the meanwhile, it’ll get however bad it’s going to get, and we’ll cope the best we can.
But more concretely:
OHA is saying that before they start relaxing shelter-in-place orders, they want 1) Oregon deaths to be decreasing for at least two weeks, 2) the capacity to do 15,000 mostly-rapid tests a week (we’re currently at 10K/week, and mostly-slow), and 3) the ability to do widespread immunity testing. So, eh, maybe June before they start dialling restrictions back? And even then it’s going to be baby steps, not all-at-once. This isn’t going to end-end for another year or two: vaccine or herd immunity, whichever comes first.
16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine?
Ask if I can pet a random stranger’s dog. Pet the cats who greet us on our walks. Put things on hold at the library. Hug my friends. Hopefully visit my mom and dad. Go out for birthday oyster shooters, assuming that there’s still anywhere to get them. All in whichever order the lifting of restrictions allow — the restrictions almost certainly won’t be lifted all at once.
17. Where do you wish you were right now?
Exactly where I am, thank you.
18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?
Walking the canyon trail down to the college commons for a lazy weekend morning writing date, with a stop by the library on our way back home. And I’m pre-emptively missing Wednesday afternoons at the river: I’d been planning on taking some vacation time this summer to align with
grrlpup’s half days.19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?
Never had any hand sanitizer, and we’re good for toilet paper.
ETA:
grrlpup says we have a personal-size bottle of hand sanitizer down in the camping equipment. Obviously we haven't been using it, opting for hand-washing instead. (Our hand-washing song of choice is the first verse and chorus of Barrett's Privateers: if you begin in 1778, twenty seconds later you're a broken man on the Halifax pier. grrlpup, being a Colorado girl, sings it with a John Denver twang. I made the mistake of letting her know I think that's hilarious, and she's been trying to scrub the song of the twang ever since, so sad!)20. Do you have enough food to last a month?
Yes, although we’d be jonesing for fresh food by the end of it. But we have Tang powder, so I don’t imagine we’ll get scurvy.
Additional questions, courtesy of
china_shop:1a. Are you in a vulnerable category?
No.
19a. Have you run out of anything else?
Eh, anxiety brain likes to yell about how we're nearly out of every blessed random thing that comes to its attention, but the truth is, no, we're not out of anything yet, nor are we in particular danger of running out of anything. (Cross-stitch fabric! it screeches at me, when I have done EXACTLY ONE cross-stitch project in my life, AND I still have scraps from that last project that I could use if I wanted, AND I have enough fiber-crafts supplies in this house to choke a whale if I tried.)
21. Has anything major happened in your life during the rāhui/lockdown?
Nothing, blessedly. If we could just keep having a nice quiet lockdown, that would be swell. *knocks wood*
22. What are you grateful for?
Having employment, and not just for the obvious reasons. If you asked me a month ago if my job would ever be one of the best things about my day, I would have laughed in your face. But during the workday I'm thinking about utterly mundane work things, and anxiety brain doesn't have the idle bandwidth to twiddle at me about crap, it's great.
I'm also grateful to be spending this time with my favourite person, and that none of our parents are in care homes.
23. Is there anything you'll miss about lockdown life?
Not having a commute. Being able to wander into the next room whenever work is stupid or boring, and drop a kiss on the top of
grrlpup's head. Working in my jammies with my cat sprawled across my chest (even if I do spend a good deal of time begging her to be less pointy)... Basically, working from home is great, and I am not looking forward to going back to the office again.This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth, where there are