- After a stalwart attempt to stay bug free, last Saturday I succumbed to the evil virus of doom, and was out for the count for a good bit of the weekend. The good news is that I kicked its butt very quickly. I always try to be gentle on recovery, so I think that helped. My family would get overambitious and want to eat things not friendly after being sick and kept regressing, but my firm insistence on crackers for days after has been a boon. I just try to only eat a tiny bit more every day and stop if I feel like it's going to make me feel worse. No one has shown symptoms for the past week so I think my militant sanitation helped! Because norovirus is a PAIIIN to kill. It even laughs in the face of antibacterial gel.
- My daughter's return to school did not go as smoothly as the sanitation efforts. School had been closed due to icy roads on Monday so she did not return until Tuesday. The transition has been hard, with multiple calls and text most of the week, and having to pick her up on Tuesday. It's hard for me to walk the tightrope of understanding and validation, while emphasizing to a kid who is socially behind her peers that just because she doesn't enjoy it, she can't just disrupt her class. The school tries their best, but there are cracks too. They often use ableist language, and compare her to other ND peers instead of simply putting her in a program that fits her needs. I finally had to bring up that if the pattern continues, we need to review her IEP. That's really all I can do based on the laws here to make sure she is provided with an education.
- This week has me feeling a bit dysregulated myself, and I noticed cracks showing in my behavior and focus. I think this weekend I will play some soft music, do some chores slowly, and get back on to Disco Elysium. I feel I am fairly close to solving the case but not sure how many twists and turns are left. I also have this book called The Baker's Year I want to read some of. It's broken down by month so I am hoping 2026 is the year I read a chapter per month to experience the book as the author did. But fingers crossed because I'm never good at the whole read a little bit every x amount of time. I'm a binger usually.
- I got kudos from a colleague at work the other day and it made me really happy. I'm working on a dream project. As in, I get to redesign an existing software that they are completely refactoring from scratch, so no legacy code or quirks to worry about! Locking in and working on that has helped me a lot!
- Current Obsessions: Tweaking my workout schedule, Moomins, crème brûlée flavored black tea.
An ideological consequence of industrial capitalism was the shaping of a more rigorous notion of female inferiority. It seemed, in fact, that the more women’s domestic duties shrank under the impact of industrialization, the more rigid became the assertion that “woman’s place is in the home.”
– Angela Y. Davis (Women, Race & Class)