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[domarzione]

* This honestly feels like the end of a work week in a way the last several have not. Zoom meetings I had to set an alarm for! Director micromanaging a project my own supervisor can't be arsed to bother with and asked my old supervisor if I wanted to do! (Why is he lurking on the document? Why is he PM-ing me about changes?) Gruntwork project "you are totally the best person for" not because it requires my advanced skills, but because the person who should have done it is an arrogant bint who can't be trusted not to eff it up! Being lied to by upper management about our safety! TGIF. 


* I know the miserable NYC spring is undoubtedly helping things, that when it's 49 and drizzling nobody's going out, but can we just have one week of normal temperatures, please? I haven't been out of the apartment since Tuesday apart from a mission to Walgreens and I'm going bananas. The cats want open windows. I want open windows. I want to stop nursemaiding the humidifier filter because the heat is off and I can put it away until the fall. 


* I go to graduate school remotely and said school is in Northern California and there is such a disconnect right now between what the school considers important messaging and what my daily life does that it gives me whiplash.


* Positive things: I made a pretty darned good dairy-free lemon tart and a kickass Aviation cocktail with my own luxardo fruit. I am continuing to write Qui Habitat and enjoy myself. Imperfect Foods delivered essentially twice what I ordered and I was able to give my elderly cousin several pounds of produce when all she'd asked me to order was salmon and pears. (Side note: so far I am totally in love with IF, which appeals to both my 'reduce food waste' ethos and 'I want to try all of the foods' magpie tendencies without being either a budget-buster or a ballbuster. Looking at you, Misfits Market.) I donated to a GoFundMe that is set up by Asians in America looking to feed the first responders and staff at besieged local hospitals here in Queens. 

Comments

[skieswideopen]

You have my sympathy on the weather. Toronto just broke a 25-year record for the longest period with a maximum temperature below 20°C/68°F, and even though I know it's good for keeping people inside, I am so done with it.

Imperfect Foods looks awesome!

[domarzione]

We hit 16 today and it was open windows and outside for everyone despite that still being stupid cold for the end of April because all week has been miserable and we go down to 5 tonight and don't break 10 until Tuesday maybe. *grump*

Imperfect Foods has been a lot of fun -- Japanese plum soda! Wild rice! Cactus chips! -- but it's also been a lot of help right now. My local grocery store had high prices and bad quality for produce before all this started and all of the places I used to go instead are now either closed or in neighborhoods devastated by the plague and I'm immunosuppressed. There is absolutely no reliable grocery delivery in NYC right now; we have plenty of options, but they are either booked solid for weeks or not even accepting new accounts. So that I can get delivered produce and a few protein options possibly added on is what has kept me out of a store entirely except for a couple of milk runs.

[twistedchick]

I'm very glad you are continuing with Qui Habitat -- there is something about reading about ordinary life in Atlantis that connects me back to what used to be ordinary life here.

[domarzione]

I very much understand the feeling. :)

[leonie_alastair]

I hope you got to enjoy the brief sunny interlude Saturday morning!

[domarzione]

I didn't get out until the late afternoon (to the tune of 6.7 miles), but the cats and I enjoyed the early sunshine tremendously.

They are now grumpy because all the windows save the kitchen are closed.