Year 2-Day 69 - Malaise..
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shadowkatHumid overcast day. Took a walk around noon, since the Super is supposed to pop up sometime this evening to fix the drain on the bath tub. (It's the old 1920s style drain, that is next to the tub, not in it. I tried explaining it to mother and got a headache.)
It was in the sixities, but perimenopause and humidity are un-mixy things - and I was soaking wet when I came back, so changed. Also due to the shifts in temperature and weather, I'm still getting the sick headaches. Plus hot flashes. I can't decide if I'm hot because of the weather, the air conditioner not being high enough, or the hot flashes. Will state that a cold pack on my chest does help, tremendously.
While I took said walk, I took photos of flowers again. I like taking photos of flowers - it cheers me up.
1. Work nonsense
I spent most of my day spinning my wheels with illogical folks. Via either teams or email.
Anyhow, crazy workplace has big town-hall meetings this week on the "big transformation" and the "return to the office" project lifting off in June.
2. Governor and NYS vs. COVID
* Today during his live briefing Governor advised that more people needed to get vaccinated. We have approximately half of the state fully vaccinated now.
* Mayor and Governor both advised that in September - school would be fully back in session with no remote learning. (Mainly because the remote learning bit was hardly equal, there were a lot of kids who were unable to get access.)
"COVID hospitalizations dropped to 1,305, the lowest since November 4. Of the 85,019 tests reported yesterday, 929, or 1.09 percent, were positive. The 7-day average percent positivity was 0.90 percent. There were 303 patients in ICU yesterday, down 12 from the previous day. Of them, 185 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 14 New Yorkers to the virus.
As of 11am this morning, 63.7 percent of adult New Yorkers have completed at least one vaccine dose. Over the past 24 hours, 63,443 total doses have been administered. To date, New York administered 18,441,242 total doses with 54.9 percent of adult New Yorkers completing their vaccine series. See additional data on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
Get vaccinated and get a free State Park pass. Today we announced the "Shot in the Park" incentive—anyone who gets vaccinated between May 24 and May 31 will receive a free two-day pass to any New York State Park. Additionally, 15 New York State Parks will host pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites, offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on a first-come, first-served basis.
Join us virtually tomorrow for a webinar on women's health and the COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, May 25 at 4pm ET, a panel of top New York medical experts will discuss the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine on women's bodies at all stages of life and explore how the vaccine can protect the health of young people. Attendees will have the opportunity to directly ask questions about the vaccine including topics such as fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding and vaccinating youth. No judgment—just an open conversation with experts. You can register to attend the webinar here.
Protect Yourself & Your Family - a Vaccinate NY Women's Health Forum
I don't know if I'll attend that or not. I'm already vaccinated and I doubt they know why some women's periods start after the vaccine and others don't. Which is really all I'm concerned about. Also, two teams events in one day is about all I can stomach. But they really are going above and beyond in their effort to convince folks to get vaccinated. They've bribed them with lottery tickets, park passes, free tickets to ball games, and subway/train passes.
3. Television Sci-Fi Tropes that irritate me...
Someone on FB was curious about the television tropes that irritate me, in reference to a television series which unfortunately had most of them.
* Time travel - I'm picky about time travel. Television writers don't understand it. And I really don't like the trope about folks traveling from a distant dystopian future - to attempt to change said future by fixing the present. (Twelve Monkeys, Mannifest, Outlander, Time Travelers, Timeless, Terminator, etc.) The only series that kind of did this correctly was Sarah Connor Chronicles - where I was able to hand wave it, because it was so well written and showed how it basically just created another time line. The only other thing that handled this correctly was Endgame. Actually, I thought it handled the science better than Sara Connor - mainly because they asked people who specialized in quantum physics. If you attempt to change the future by going back into the past - all you do is create a parallel time line. You can't change something that has already happened - and when you go back in time, your future becomes the past. Time isn't linear either.
It's a trope that irritates me. And I think has been overdone by television writers who know less about quantum physics than I do, which is saying something. Also this was borrowed from comics - which did it first. X-men did it in the 1970s with Days of Future Past. Actually the X-men comics have done it repeatedly. One of the few films that did it well was the X-men Film - Days of Future Past, but again because they understood the concept that it creates a parallel reality of sorts. If you are a comics fan, you probably have seen this trope done to death. If you are a sci-fi fan, ditto.
* Benevolent or not so Benevolent aliens infecting people and giving them super-powers as a result. Another overdone comic book trope. Marvel Agents of Shield did it.
* Victorian Steam punk - basically Hugo Wells sci-fi. Which I can kind of hand-wave, but not well. I don't like the Victorians. They've been romanticized, when from what I've seen they destroyed a lot of cultures in favor of their own.
* Humans conducting scientific experiments on super-powered folks or aliens. (Overdone by the X-men.)
* Super-powered or powered individuals and/or aliens being metaphors for racism, or xenophobia.
4. Sinuses are making me crazy. Also I'm edgy waiting for my super. I don't know why anticipating things makes me edgy and nervous. Or anxious. It's silly really. Meditation has helped reduce this - but not completely.
I don't understand myself. Perhaps it's some unresolved trauma from my youth? God knows. I've been hearing the words Somatic Therapy a lot lately. Claudia Black brought it up in an article, and today a therapist on a podcast that I was listening to - brought it up. Both are unrelated to each other. I may look into it. The theory is that we hold the energy from past traumas in our bodies, and it festers if unreleased, leading to pain.
And the trauma may not seem like a trauma to many, but it is to the person who experienced it. Trauma can be any thing really.
Somatic Therapy - I actually kind of saw a mind/body therapist for a bit - helped me a great deal. Got a lot of the energy released.
I heard recently, not sure where - that no one is okay right now. Even those who say they are - aren't really. They are just kind of pushing it to one side, which I've been doing for quite some time now.
But how else do we deal? Public screaming?
It was in the sixities, but perimenopause and humidity are un-mixy things - and I was soaking wet when I came back, so changed. Also due to the shifts in temperature and weather, I'm still getting the sick headaches. Plus hot flashes. I can't decide if I'm hot because of the weather, the air conditioner not being high enough, or the hot flashes. Will state that a cold pack on my chest does help, tremendously.
While I took said walk, I took photos of flowers again. I like taking photos of flowers - it cheers me up.
1. Work nonsense
I spent most of my day spinning my wheels with illogical folks. Via either teams or email.
Anyhow, crazy workplace has big town-hall meetings this week on the "big transformation" and the "return to the office" project lifting off in June.
2. Governor and NYS vs. COVID
* Today during his live briefing Governor advised that more people needed to get vaccinated. We have approximately half of the state fully vaccinated now.
* Mayor and Governor both advised that in September - school would be fully back in session with no remote learning. (Mainly because the remote learning bit was hardly equal, there were a lot of kids who were unable to get access.)
"COVID hospitalizations dropped to 1,305, the lowest since November 4. Of the 85,019 tests reported yesterday, 929, or 1.09 percent, were positive. The 7-day average percent positivity was 0.90 percent. There were 303 patients in ICU yesterday, down 12 from the previous day. Of them, 185 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 14 New Yorkers to the virus.
As of 11am this morning, 63.7 percent of adult New Yorkers have completed at least one vaccine dose. Over the past 24 hours, 63,443 total doses have been administered. To date, New York administered 18,441,242 total doses with 54.9 percent of adult New Yorkers completing their vaccine series. See additional data on the State's Vaccine Tracker.
Get vaccinated and get a free State Park pass. Today we announced the "Shot in the Park" incentive—anyone who gets vaccinated between May 24 and May 31 will receive a free two-day pass to any New York State Park. Additionally, 15 New York State Parks will host pop-up COVID-19 vaccination sites, offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on a first-come, first-served basis.
Join us virtually tomorrow for a webinar on women's health and the COVID-19 vaccine. On Tuesday, May 25 at 4pm ET, a panel of top New York medical experts will discuss the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine on women's bodies at all stages of life and explore how the vaccine can protect the health of young people. Attendees will have the opportunity to directly ask questions about the vaccine including topics such as fertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding and vaccinating youth. No judgment—just an open conversation with experts. You can register to attend the webinar here.
Protect Yourself & Your Family - a Vaccinate NY Women's Health Forum
I don't know if I'll attend that or not. I'm already vaccinated and I doubt they know why some women's periods start after the vaccine and others don't. Which is really all I'm concerned about. Also, two teams events in one day is about all I can stomach. But they really are going above and beyond in their effort to convince folks to get vaccinated. They've bribed them with lottery tickets, park passes, free tickets to ball games, and subway/train passes.
3. Television Sci-Fi Tropes that irritate me...
Someone on FB was curious about the television tropes that irritate me, in reference to a television series which unfortunately had most of them.
* Time travel - I'm picky about time travel. Television writers don't understand it. And I really don't like the trope about folks traveling from a distant dystopian future - to attempt to change said future by fixing the present. (Twelve Monkeys, Mannifest, Outlander, Time Travelers, Timeless, Terminator, etc.) The only series that kind of did this correctly was Sarah Connor Chronicles - where I was able to hand wave it, because it was so well written and showed how it basically just created another time line. The only other thing that handled this correctly was Endgame. Actually, I thought it handled the science better than Sara Connor - mainly because they asked people who specialized in quantum physics. If you attempt to change the future by going back into the past - all you do is create a parallel time line. You can't change something that has already happened - and when you go back in time, your future becomes the past. Time isn't linear either.
It's a trope that irritates me. And I think has been overdone by television writers who know less about quantum physics than I do, which is saying something. Also this was borrowed from comics - which did it first. X-men did it in the 1970s with Days of Future Past. Actually the X-men comics have done it repeatedly. One of the few films that did it well was the X-men Film - Days of Future Past, but again because they understood the concept that it creates a parallel reality of sorts. If you are a comics fan, you probably have seen this trope done to death. If you are a sci-fi fan, ditto.
* Benevolent or not so Benevolent aliens infecting people and giving them super-powers as a result. Another overdone comic book trope. Marvel Agents of Shield did it.
* Victorian Steam punk - basically Hugo Wells sci-fi. Which I can kind of hand-wave, but not well. I don't like the Victorians. They've been romanticized, when from what I've seen they destroyed a lot of cultures in favor of their own.
* Humans conducting scientific experiments on super-powered folks or aliens. (Overdone by the X-men.)
* Super-powered or powered individuals and/or aliens being metaphors for racism, or xenophobia.
4. Sinuses are making me crazy. Also I'm edgy waiting for my super. I don't know why anticipating things makes me edgy and nervous. Or anxious. It's silly really. Meditation has helped reduce this - but not completely.
I don't understand myself. Perhaps it's some unresolved trauma from my youth? God knows. I've been hearing the words Somatic Therapy a lot lately. Claudia Black brought it up in an article, and today a therapist on a podcast that I was listening to - brought it up. Both are unrelated to each other. I may look into it. The theory is that we hold the energy from past traumas in our bodies, and it festers if unreleased, leading to pain.
And the trauma may not seem like a trauma to many, but it is to the person who experienced it. Trauma can be any thing really.
Somatic Therapy - I actually kind of saw a mind/body therapist for a bit - helped me a great deal. Got a lot of the energy released.
I heard recently, not sure where - that no one is okay right now. Even those who say they are - aren't really. They are just kind of pushing it to one side, which I've been doing for quite some time now.
But how else do we deal? Public screaming?