fluffy rambles: Ugh, sick again

Ugh, sick again

April 3, 2024 10:22 PM (3 weeks ago)

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).

I feel like I need to finish reviewing the current Song Fight, “A Grand Parade.” I did throw together a dumb little song for the next fight (“I Need A Vacation”) yesterday so hopefully that does better than my entries are doing in this one (which is to say, not well). And I’ve got some slipcasting experiments going on right now, and hopefully I’ll have a couple more pots ready for the next kiln firing this weekend although I do have at least one ready to go now.

Meanwhile, sales of my latest album are going pretty abysmally. I hope they pick up during Bandcamp Friday.

Oh, and unsurprisingly, the genetic test the new rheumatologist ordered came back negative, so he doesn’t know what I do have, just more things that I don’t have. So it goes.