busybee fluffy rambles

So, there was a COVID outbreak at my choir. At first it seemed like it was isolated to folks who participated in one extracurricular thing after the last rehearsal, but it turns out that it’s been affecting a lot of folks. We were going to have a talent show and fundraising auction this Friday but that’s been postponed until May. So it goes.

Anyway this morning I woke up coughing, and while that cleared up quickly I’ve been feeling pretty under the weather all day, with occasional respiratory stuff and general fatigue/malaise.

As usual, home rapid tests are turning up negative, but for whatever reason I’ve never had a positive rapid test even when I very clearly had COVID, so I don’t know what’s up with that.

I’m hoping that this is a fluke and I’m not actually coming down with COVID for a third goddamn time, and that I’ll be well enough for our big Benaroya Hall concert next Friday, but I’m not terribly optimistic about that right now given how things like this always go. In the meantime I am, of course, isolating. Fortunately I’m pretty well-stocked on groceries right now so I don’t think I’ll need to get anything delivered (although I did order a bunch of cough drops just in case).

Being unemployed is pretty great. I’m getting way more stuff done now than when I was being paid to do things.

It’s amazing how not having an 8-hour soul-sucking void every day leaves me with plenty of energy to do stuff that I enjoy doing.

For example, I’m having great time gardening (well, cultivating a meadow, really), doing pottery, and generally enjoying my life. This has had other great effects, like my kitchen is the cleanest it’s been since filming Lo-Fi Beats to Grind Coffee To, and I’m having the energy to work on music and open source stuff again (including Publ).