Done This Week
Jan. 26th, 2025 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksGot the surgical clearance appointment done, but I’m still waiting on the blood work results. Got the EKG at least, which I had to look up the terminology for. Basically fine, apparently, but not so you could tell by reading several phrases that sound absolutely dire without explanation.
This is going to be the longest two weeks of my life. Every day, I wait to hear that some political decision has been made that will make my surgery illegal. I understand that actual laws, as opposed to just executive orders, take time. I understand that challenges can get laws blocked pending review.
But I also recognize that lots of companies and organizations are preemptively complying and/or using the new administration as an excuse to drop policies they never really cared about anyway. So you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t trust that the normal mechanisms will protect me even temporarily. I don’t even trust that having private insurance, ie money, will protect me.
Because they’re entirely mask-off at this point--it was never just about children, it was never just about tax dollars, it was never just about freedom of speech. Which we knew--anyone who wasn’t a hopeless fool or a disingenuous ass knew that none of those supposed limits would hold. But still.
Sorry. That’s not really “done this week” except insofar as what I did this week was panic.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 36 hours, with one day off but also some time on Saturday to restart after a planned power outage
Gardening: more weeding
Reading: re-listened to beloved The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente while driving, listened to Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (my old guy coworker references the classics, and I figured it was time to try this out, liked it more than I expected for something so very much Of Its Time in many ways)
Listening: RATKING by Brimheim (another KEXP recommendation)
Aftermarket Parts: reserved a rental car for traveling, printed backup maps, surgical clearance appointment and corresponding bloodwork
Clock Mouse: 1344 words, and maybe I’ll spend my recovery week doing some planning...
This is going to be the longest two weeks of my life. Every day, I wait to hear that some political decision has been made that will make my surgery illegal. I understand that actual laws, as opposed to just executive orders, take time. I understand that challenges can get laws blocked pending review.
But I also recognize that lots of companies and organizations are preemptively complying and/or using the new administration as an excuse to drop policies they never really cared about anyway. So you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t trust that the normal mechanisms will protect me even temporarily. I don’t even trust that having private insurance, ie money, will protect me.
Because they’re entirely mask-off at this point--it was never just about children, it was never just about tax dollars, it was never just about freedom of speech. Which we knew--anyone who wasn’t a hopeless fool or a disingenuous ass knew that none of those supposed limits would hold. But still.
Sorry. That’s not really “done this week” except insofar as what I did this week was panic.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 36 hours, with one day off but also some time on Saturday to restart after a planned power outage
Gardening: more weeding
Reading: re-listened to beloved The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente while driving, listened to Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (my old guy coworker references the classics, and I figured it was time to try this out, liked it more than I expected for something so very much Of Its Time in many ways)
Listening: RATKING by Brimheim (another KEXP recommendation)
Aftermarket Parts: reserved a rental car for traveling, printed backup maps, surgical clearance appointment and corresponding bloodwork
Clock Mouse: 1344 words, and maybe I’ll spend my recovery week doing some planning...
