Television and sigh COVID
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shadowkatBeautiful day, also cool, not too hot and not too cold (except inside my office, where I found myself wearing the union sweatshirt hoodie that they gave me way back in 2021. First time I wore the thing. It's huge, black, and very comfy. Well, I was cold, down to my fingertips, until that is - a hot flash came along and made me hot again. My internal heating and cooling system has been on the fritz for a while now. I'm either really hot, or weirdly cold. It's annoying.)
Sky was blue. It was sunny. And I was stuck in an office with no windows trying to stay awake, and focus on work. But my brain just kind of meandered. (Management should die a long slow death in a closet.)
According to mother, my brother is livid that they forced me to go back to work after only five days, and just because I wasn't running a fever.
Apparently his daughter keeps testing positive for COVID. She tested today and was still positive for COVID, so she's deferred her International Law Final to August. (I guess she'll take it remotely in the states. It's not in-person anyhow - it's down by computer and is eight hours.) But she is feeling better at least, and the scare is over - just kind of knocked for a loop.
I've not taken another test - and I don't see the point. I'd have to come in anyhow. They only let you stay out if you have symptoms and a fever. (Because they are idiots.) Plus, I don't have that many tests available at the moment. One of my at home test boxes didn't come with any cotton swabs, it had everything but the swabs. So I ordered eight more tests, and another box before that. The government tests are reliable at least.
I've also upgraded to a KN95 mask now. And bought more. As have many of my co-workers. Most don't wear masks at all. Also, more and more folks aren't wearing them on the subways and trains.
NYC is on high alert now - not that anyone seems to care - although I did notice that there are less folks on the trains this week. And less going in and out of the air train building.
***
Television Cancellation List...
Latest additions: Pivoting (FOX), Our Kind of People (FOX), In the Dark (The CW), Roswell, New Mexico (The CW), 4400 (The CW), Charmed (The CW), Dynasty (The CW), Legacies (The CW), Naomi (The CW), The Endgame (NBC), Mr. Mayor (NBC), Kenan (NBC), How We Roll (CBS), Good Sam (CBS), Magnum PI (CBS), B Positive (CBS), United States of Al (CBS), Dollface (Hulu), Queens (ABC), Saved By the Bell (Peacock), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW), Space Force (Netflix), Batwoman (The CW), Pretty Smart (Netflix), The Last OG (TBS), Kill the Orange-Face Bear (TBS), Raising Dion (Netflix), On the Verge (Netflix), The Real (syndicated), Locke & Key (Netflix), DailyMailTV (syndicated), Archive 81 (Netflix), Maury (syndicated), The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix), Nick Cannon (syndicated), The Good Dish (syndicated), Judge Jerry (syndicated), Flip or Flop (HGTV), Muppet Babies (Disney Junior), Gotham Central (HBO Max), The Big Leap (FOX), Ordinary Joe (NBC), Adults Adopting Adults (A&E), The Wendy Williams Show (syndicated), Another Life (Netflix), Promised Land (ABC), Love, Victor (Hulu), The Boondocks (HBO Max), Saints & Sinners (Bounce TV), American Rust (Showtime), Bringing Up Bates (UPtv), Work In Progress (Showtime), Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (Peacock), Bull (CBS), Gentefied (Netflix), I Know What You Did Last Summer (Amazon Prime Video), Hawkeye (Disney+), Head of the Class (HBO Max), After Life (Netflix), The Dr. Oz Show (syndicated), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix), and Gabby Duran & the Unsittables (Disney Channel).
And the rest can be found HERE - the CW went nuts, I think they are struggling to keep the lights on over at CW, hence the cancellation craze.
Shows that I watch which were cancelled, neither surprised nor really upset me that much, they were kind of winding down or felt concluded. Or I'd given up on a lot of them after five episodes.
Meanwhile there's the shows that cannot seem to die.
Me: Grey's Anatomy was renewed for a 19th season.
Mother: You are kidding me.
Me: Really not. So too was NCIS for a 20th season.
Mother: I stopped watching it - it reminds me of your father, and I get depressed. If that makes sense.
She used to watch NCIS with my Dad, who can no longer follow it now.
***
Mother has gotten nostalgic, or morbid. She's scanning the obituaries for all the people she knows, or looking up their death notices to see if they are still alive. She even calls the ones that are. Then regales me with stories of how folks she once knew, and I vaguely knew, died or their kids died.
Mother: It doesn't really upset me that much.
Me: No, I think you get some odd satisfaction from it - hey at least I'm alive and my kids are!
Mother: This is true. (giggles).
Me: You also remind me of your own mother. Granny used to do this too. I have deja vue. She'd read obituraries to me over the phone. You've inherited her morbid tendencies.
Mother: (giggles) I am her daughter.
Sigh.
**
Work is slow, and I'm debating taken the 27th off - assuming I can. I'm in a holding pattern, waiting on other people to provide me with stuff. It's hurry up then wait. Coordinating other people is frustrating.
**
Also I managed to completely forget the Senator from Kentucky's name. I think my mind mentally blocked it out finally. With any luck Booker will beat them both.
Sky was blue. It was sunny. And I was stuck in an office with no windows trying to stay awake, and focus on work. But my brain just kind of meandered. (Management should die a long slow death in a closet.)
According to mother, my brother is livid that they forced me to go back to work after only five days, and just because I wasn't running a fever.
Apparently his daughter keeps testing positive for COVID. She tested today and was still positive for COVID, so she's deferred her International Law Final to August. (I guess she'll take it remotely in the states. It's not in-person anyhow - it's down by computer and is eight hours.) But she is feeling better at least, and the scare is over - just kind of knocked for a loop.
I've not taken another test - and I don't see the point. I'd have to come in anyhow. They only let you stay out if you have symptoms and a fever. (Because they are idiots.) Plus, I don't have that many tests available at the moment. One of my at home test boxes didn't come with any cotton swabs, it had everything but the swabs. So I ordered eight more tests, and another box before that. The government tests are reliable at least.
I've also upgraded to a KN95 mask now. And bought more. As have many of my co-workers. Most don't wear masks at all. Also, more and more folks aren't wearing them on the subways and trains.
NYC is on high alert now - not that anyone seems to care - although I did notice that there are less folks on the trains this week. And less going in and out of the air train building.
***
Television Cancellation List...
Latest additions: Pivoting (FOX), Our Kind of People (FOX), In the Dark (The CW), Roswell, New Mexico (The CW), 4400 (The CW), Charmed (The CW), Dynasty (The CW), Legacies (The CW), Naomi (The CW), The Endgame (NBC), Mr. Mayor (NBC), Kenan (NBC), How We Roll (CBS), Good Sam (CBS), Magnum PI (CBS), B Positive (CBS), United States of Al (CBS), Dollface (Hulu), Queens (ABC), Saved By the Bell (Peacock), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (The CW), Space Force (Netflix), Batwoman (The CW), Pretty Smart (Netflix), The Last OG (TBS), Kill the Orange-Face Bear (TBS), Raising Dion (Netflix), On the Verge (Netflix), The Real (syndicated), Locke & Key (Netflix), DailyMailTV (syndicated), Archive 81 (Netflix), Maury (syndicated), The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix), Nick Cannon (syndicated), The Good Dish (syndicated), Judge Jerry (syndicated), Flip or Flop (HGTV), Muppet Babies (Disney Junior), Gotham Central (HBO Max), The Big Leap (FOX), Ordinary Joe (NBC), Adults Adopting Adults (A&E), The Wendy Williams Show (syndicated), Another Life (Netflix), Promised Land (ABC), Love, Victor (Hulu), The Boondocks (HBO Max), Saints & Sinners (Bounce TV), American Rust (Showtime), Bringing Up Bates (UPtv), Work In Progress (Showtime), Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (Peacock), Bull (CBS), Gentefied (Netflix), I Know What You Did Last Summer (Amazon Prime Video), Hawkeye (Disney+), Head of the Class (HBO Max), After Life (Netflix), The Dr. Oz Show (syndicated), Cowboy Bebop (Netflix), and Gabby Duran & the Unsittables (Disney Channel).
And the rest can be found HERE - the CW went nuts, I think they are struggling to keep the lights on over at CW, hence the cancellation craze.
Shows that I watch which were cancelled, neither surprised nor really upset me that much, they were kind of winding down or felt concluded. Or I'd given up on a lot of them after five episodes.
Meanwhile there's the shows that cannot seem to die.
Me: Grey's Anatomy was renewed for a 19th season.
Mother: You are kidding me.
Me: Really not. So too was NCIS for a 20th season.
Mother: I stopped watching it - it reminds me of your father, and I get depressed. If that makes sense.
She used to watch NCIS with my Dad, who can no longer follow it now.
***
Mother has gotten nostalgic, or morbid. She's scanning the obituaries for all the people she knows, or looking up their death notices to see if they are still alive. She even calls the ones that are. Then regales me with stories of how folks she once knew, and I vaguely knew, died or their kids died.
Mother: It doesn't really upset me that much.
Me: No, I think you get some odd satisfaction from it - hey at least I'm alive and my kids are!
Mother: This is true. (giggles).
Me: You also remind me of your own mother. Granny used to do this too. I have deja vue. She'd read obituraries to me over the phone. You've inherited her morbid tendencies.
Mother: (giggles) I am her daughter.
Sigh.
**
Work is slow, and I'm debating taken the 27th off - assuming I can. I'm in a holding pattern, waiting on other people to provide me with stuff. It's hurry up then wait. Coordinating other people is frustrating.
**
Also I managed to completely forget the Senator from Kentucky's name. I think my mind mentally blocked it out finally. With any luck Booker will beat them both.
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Date: 2022-05-19 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-05-20 06:35 pm (UTC)The CW's future does really feel shaky at this point. I don't know what will happen to them long term.