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It's getting to the point that I now know folks who have had COVID in just about every section of my life. Super's wife informed me today that she and her husband both had COVID in January, and she lost her sense of smell for several months. Didn't smell anything at all.
(Actually that's often what I would do whenever I got the sniffles or felt poorly, smell myself, to ensure I didn't have COVID.)
Super's wife was up to check out the ceiling in my living room. I had some water rain down from it this morning from the apartment above - apparently due to a leak on the sixth floor - she said water was coming in through the wall and on down, the fifth floor apartment's rug was soaked. It was a clogged flu.
She didn't remember to bring her mask, she was for a bit using her t-shirt, I told her not to worry about it, I had my mask on, and we were both vaccinated, and I'd gotten the booster. She said that one of her friends had gotten COVID twice now, once before he got the vaccine and once after, and he even wore a mask. (I think he failed to social distance, and folks around him weren't always wearing them.) Then of course, mother tells me that her friend thinks her husband died because of the vaccine. (I doubt it. The man had skin cancer, beat that, had asymptomatic COVID, beat that, and had heart surgery, which lead to complications and pneumonia. He got the vaccine shortly after the heart surgery.)
Me: Do the upstairs neighbors have a bike?
Super: No. But they have a big dog and a small dog. And they like to jump.
ME: Ah, that would make sense.
Super: Also bark - one night it woke us up at 3AM. Someone opened their window and screamed at them to shut the dog up. He apologized to me and said they'd trained them to be quiet, but the dog had been startled when they got in real late one night from vacation.
Me: I haven't complained - I just yell at the ceiling occasionally, which oddly appears to work.
Super (laughs): Oh thank you. She's a lawyer. They both lawyers. Spend lots of time in court.
ME: Well, so am I. Lawyer that is. Although don't practice. (looks up realizing they have the same floor plan I do, but two of them, with two dogs, both working remotely during COVID). Apparently they aren't making much as lawyers. (I'm probably making more than they are. Interesting. And I don't have to deal with court. Living in a small one bedroom apartment with two people and two dogs. Plus construction above me. Hmm, I'm probably smarter. Well, I don't own two dogs (one huge) in a small apartment in NYC, so that's obviously a given. Why people own huge dogs in this city is beyond me. Small dogs I can understand, big ones? Frigging hell - live in the country.)
Super also informed me that 17 people had moved out this week, and 17 had moved in. Most in any of the years she's been here. COVID, the gift that keeps on giving. Also, People are crazy. But we already established that.
Thing about going to law school? Or rather a perk of going to law school and passing the bar, is you will never be intimidated by a lawyer again in your lifetime. See? You know that it's all smoke and mirrors or bravado. Any respect I'd had for the profession kind of died in law school or shortly thereafter in the workforce. Twenty some years of negotiating contracts with lawyers will do that.
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Worked late, until 6:30 or thereabouts. I didn't complain - considering I took about an hour or two around 12:45-2:30 to do laundry. I did work in between, but was admittedly distracted.
My attention keeps wandering, even while writing this...
Random Photo of the Day..
(Actually that's often what I would do whenever I got the sniffles or felt poorly, smell myself, to ensure I didn't have COVID.)
Super's wife was up to check out the ceiling in my living room. I had some water rain down from it this morning from the apartment above - apparently due to a leak on the sixth floor - she said water was coming in through the wall and on down, the fifth floor apartment's rug was soaked. It was a clogged flu.
She didn't remember to bring her mask, she was for a bit using her t-shirt, I told her not to worry about it, I had my mask on, and we were both vaccinated, and I'd gotten the booster. She said that one of her friends had gotten COVID twice now, once before he got the vaccine and once after, and he even wore a mask. (I think he failed to social distance, and folks around him weren't always wearing them.) Then of course, mother tells me that her friend thinks her husband died because of the vaccine. (I doubt it. The man had skin cancer, beat that, had asymptomatic COVID, beat that, and had heart surgery, which lead to complications and pneumonia. He got the vaccine shortly after the heart surgery.)
Me: Do the upstairs neighbors have a bike?
Super: No. But they have a big dog and a small dog. And they like to jump.
ME: Ah, that would make sense.
Super: Also bark - one night it woke us up at 3AM. Someone opened their window and screamed at them to shut the dog up. He apologized to me and said they'd trained them to be quiet, but the dog had been startled when they got in real late one night from vacation.
Me: I haven't complained - I just yell at the ceiling occasionally, which oddly appears to work.
Super (laughs): Oh thank you. She's a lawyer. They both lawyers. Spend lots of time in court.
ME: Well, so am I. Lawyer that is. Although don't practice. (looks up realizing they have the same floor plan I do, but two of them, with two dogs, both working remotely during COVID). Apparently they aren't making much as lawyers. (I'm probably making more than they are. Interesting. And I don't have to deal with court. Living in a small one bedroom apartment with two people and two dogs. Plus construction above me. Hmm, I'm probably smarter. Well, I don't own two dogs (one huge) in a small apartment in NYC, so that's obviously a given. Why people own huge dogs in this city is beyond me. Small dogs I can understand, big ones? Frigging hell - live in the country.)
Super also informed me that 17 people had moved out this week, and 17 had moved in. Most in any of the years she's been here. COVID, the gift that keeps on giving. Also, People are crazy. But we already established that.
Thing about going to law school? Or rather a perk of going to law school and passing the bar, is you will never be intimidated by a lawyer again in your lifetime. See? You know that it's all smoke and mirrors or bravado. Any respect I'd had for the profession kind of died in law school or shortly thereafter in the workforce. Twenty some years of negotiating contracts with lawyers will do that.
**
Worked late, until 6:30 or thereabouts. I didn't complain - considering I took about an hour or two around 12:45-2:30 to do laundry. I did work in between, but was admittedly distracted.
My attention keeps wandering, even while writing this...
Random Photo of the Day..