Believe it or not, this story has a happy ending. There is a saying I have invoked a number of times in the years since I heard it: “we live in our blind spots.” The hilarious irony of this for me, because it seems I can’t go more than a day or two without a […]
This past weekend marked 6 months since I moved here. Friday or Saturday, it was, depending on how you decide to measure. I am content to say “the weekend entire,” since the actual process itself took several days anyway. It’s hard to describe how different the last year of my life has been compared to […]
I want to say “look where we are” here. The trouble with that, if we’re being entirely honest, is I can only really look at where I am. I can count on my fingers, literally my fingers, the number of people I know that I’ve seen in person in the last year. I have purposefully […]
Taking my trash out this morning was awesome. For one thing, I don’t think I mentioned, yesterday was my first day out of the walking boot since my ankle surgery. My big walk was from my parking space back to the apartment, about two blocks. I think when I go to the store today I […]
I started making my bed in the morning. This is a bigger change than you might think. For years now I have actively disdained the idea of making your bed at all. This is an argument I have had with multiple people on multiple occasions. “I’m just going to mess it up later that same […]
There is a theory that our universe is actually an enormous computer simulation created by beings in some other, outer universe. I’m starting to think there may be something to that, because a six month run of comically-unlikely occurrences have ended up with me living on a streetcorner that, by any reasonable measure, seems suspiciously […]
It’s over. The movers came. The movers packed. The movers moved. The movers unpacked. The movers left. Tomorrow is getting the internet set up. My office. The kitchen. Putting together furniture. Buying lamps – more about that a little later. Well, hopefully tomorrow. There’s a good chance I’m going to sleep for about a week. […]
Almost there. Last night, at the height of the packing insanity, Nick mentioned something to me, that when I went to get the keys today I should bring something with me, one quick thing I could put in there to make it feel like home right away. At the time I wasn’t sure what he […]
I got my first shot today. The experience was, I think, about as positive as it could be. I had to go to HUP – specifically to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine – so I could get my shot in what was, it turned out, a repurposed employee café on the 15th floor. I […]
A word, here, about the long term. I am starting to get suspicious of how things are going now. This morning I got an automated notice from my primary: hey, let us know if you want a vaccine. As soon as we can we’ll let you know when you can sign up, but don’t exactly […]