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fortnightly update
21 Aug 2020 14:56 * I had to start off the week commuting to the office and I don't know if it was so freaking exhausting because it was always that exhausting, or I'm out of practice, or the new health and safety measures make it worse, or that I'm a TA with grading responsibilities on top of my own coursework is Too Much. Or some combination of it all. But it was obliterating even only for a few days and I'm glad I don't have to do it next week.
* This Week in The Old Guard: a ficlet about Andy (and everyone else) and a meta about how Copley is the real villain of the film. I should have posted both here to invite discussion, I suspect. Fannish talk, I miss it!
* This op-ed on why the NYC we know and love is gone for good hit me a little harder than most of the other variations on the same theme. It's a breakdown by industry that's not the 'here's where the wealthy are fleeing to' pictorials that the NYTimes loves so much and is instead a broader look at demographics that don't have weekend homes. It's all the ways this city will be destroyed by its inability to renew because so many of the reasons to come here and stay here are now gone and how technology has made putting up with all of the crap less necessary and less worth it. It's practical and its ruthless and it's not gleeful about it and the lack of schadenfreude is what makes it devastating.
I admit to considering leaving. I am from here, I have never lived anywhere else on a permanent basis (I even went to college here), and I love this city with a profound passion. But living here is exhausting and expensive and I am not in a high income bracket and I won't be even after I finish school for professional accreditation because it's not a high-paying industry. And while it's an industry currently ass-over-teakettle because of the pandemic and jobs are thin everywhere, there is a very strong likelihood that I won't find an appropriate-to-my-new-credentials job here in NYC at all. And the idea that I might have to go into exile has lost some of its horror. Five-plus months of being cut off from all of the things in NYC that I thought I could not live without... I can handle it. Which was not to say that I did not Buy All the Things when I went to Zabar's on Monday for the first time since March or that I'm looking for the exits or that I want to go. Just that I've stopped being that person who says I can't imagine leaving.
* Status of baseball team: on pause 'cuz The RONA. *insert eyeroll* I'm more bemused because it's probably inevitable and because they've had two players opt out for essentially non-COVID reasons.
Status of hockey: Oh, Calgary, that was some pratfall last night. But we go into the second round without Pittsburgh or Washington and I'll take it even if it means there has to be a Philly. NBC will have to find someone else to fellate.
* This Week in The Old Guard: a ficlet about Andy (and everyone else) and a meta about how Copley is the real villain of the film. I should have posted both here to invite discussion, I suspect. Fannish talk, I miss it!
* This op-ed on why the NYC we know and love is gone for good hit me a little harder than most of the other variations on the same theme. It's a breakdown by industry that's not the 'here's where the wealthy are fleeing to' pictorials that the NYTimes loves so much and is instead a broader look at demographics that don't have weekend homes. It's all the ways this city will be destroyed by its inability to renew because so many of the reasons to come here and stay here are now gone and how technology has made putting up with all of the crap less necessary and less worth it. It's practical and its ruthless and it's not gleeful about it and the lack of schadenfreude is what makes it devastating.
I admit to considering leaving. I am from here, I have never lived anywhere else on a permanent basis (I even went to college here), and I love this city with a profound passion. But living here is exhausting and expensive and I am not in a high income bracket and I won't be even after I finish school for professional accreditation because it's not a high-paying industry. And while it's an industry currently ass-over-teakettle because of the pandemic and jobs are thin everywhere, there is a very strong likelihood that I won't find an appropriate-to-my-new-credentials job here in NYC at all. And the idea that I might have to go into exile has lost some of its horror. Five-plus months of being cut off from all of the things in NYC that I thought I could not live without... I can handle it. Which was not to say that I did not Buy All the Things when I went to Zabar's on Monday for the first time since March or that I'm looking for the exits or that I want to go. Just that I've stopped being that person who says I can't imagine leaving.
* Status of baseball team: on pause 'cuz The RONA. *insert eyeroll* I'm more bemused because it's probably inevitable and because they've had two players opt out for essentially non-COVID reasons.
Status of hockey: Oh, Calgary, that was some pratfall last night. But we go into the second round without Pittsburgh or Washington and I'll take it even if it means there has to be a Philly. NBC will have to find someone else to fellate.
