Couch 217: The Order of the Phoenix couch

Lemoncake · Jul 14, 2020 at 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by SheHulk07

Yesterday I broke down crying because of how bad my anxiety got by the end of the day. Hid in the bathroom to try to get space from everyone.

Possible trigger:

Told H I can't do this anymore. Don't think he figured out what I meant but I was talking about SI.

Finally managed to calm myself down after an hour and was able to get my homework done.

Is H still in your home?

Can you call any family members/friends for help right now?

Lemoncake · Jul 14, 2020 at 01:13 PM

Well done Una on the showering.

Lemoncake · Jul 14, 2020 at 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

13 years/89000 miles on my car.

Just finished a 90-minute Zoom lecture on Cleopatra to 200+ lifelong learners. Exhausted, I want to take the rest of the day off.

Congrats @@.

That is super impressive.

ArtleyWilkins · Jul 14, 2020 at 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

I am watching Handel's Agrippina from this fall - met opera.

Nice! I spent about 6 weeks with my sister, and she and I did a great deal of Met watching. Her old college roommate was with the Met for 25 years, so we have fun hunting the chorus to see if she was in that particular production.

Hubby is still furloughed - almost 4 months now - hotel industry is really struggling to get restarted, particularly ones that rely on conference groups. Our state is going backwards due to our stupid governor, so it may be several more months.

Dad is still in hospice and has made it much longer than we ever expected - we're sort of in a holding pattern. I can't see how he's made it this long, and honestly, I don't think he expected he'd make it this long. He's ready to go. I've come home but fully expect I'll be returning shortly (and honestly hope that is the case for his sake - he didn't want it to go on like this.)

Trying to figure out how the heck to teach when we can't get firm plans from anyone above us. It's a mess.

ArtieTheSequal · Jul 14, 2020 at 01:38 PM

My h is still not working either, thankfully he's been getting the federal pandemic unemployment which I think is ending soon, so we've been trying to save as much as we can for when that goes away. they've stopped our OT at work for the most part, so i'm not making anything extra anymore. my state's covid rates have been soaring lately which is so disheartening and scary, despite masks being mandatory in several counties. It's really hard to stay positive when it seems that there is no end in sight to this and instead of things getting better, they're just getting worse and worse.

atisketatasket · Jul 14, 2020 at 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

Ive done quite a bit already today. Took a shower (thats the 2nd one in a calendar week - that might be a record for this actual decade

), will mail my taxes in a minute (filled them out this am, did them online yesterday), did my grocery shopping online and just took delivery.

So them im gonna have lunch, and then do chores til its naptime, i guess!

I’m finally rubbing off on you!

ArtieTheSequal · Jul 14, 2020 at 04:06 PM

break time yay i've been assigned to the hi-touch messages for the past 3 days and my shoulders are up around my ears this afternoon. working on these accounts is stressful. I think I'm having a margarita for dinner! I have an almost-empty bottle of the Costco variety in my fridge that I got for Christmas.

stopdog · Jul 14, 2020 at 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins

Nice! I spent about 6 weeks with my sister, and she and I did a great deal of Met watching.

If you get a chance to see the production of Akhnaten - I highly recommend it and I am not a Philip Glass person. It is magnificent. I saw it in a theater when they showed it live from the met and then again on our pbs station - great performances I think. I don't think it is on the app yet but am looking forward to it when it is.

atisketatasket · Jul 14, 2020 at 06:29 PM

First princess-y student arguing with me about a grade this summer--a grade that loses her .125% off her final grade. Easily offset by extra credit, and she still has a perfect score in the course so far.

It's particularly annoying because when a course is on a specific subject...why would you write an answer to a question on a totally different subject? She says I should have specified the subject in the question. Um...it's a course on that very subject. Does she not remember what course she is in?

ETA: I did my fake therapist apology at her: "I'm sorry you feel disappointed..." I've learned something! (Yes, she said she was disappointed in me.)

chihirochild · Jul 15, 2020 at 09:29 AM

Camping with J

Couch 217: The Order of the Phoenix couch

LonesomeTonight · Jul 15, 2020 at 11:26 AM

Have fun, Chihiro!

LonesomeTonight · Jul 15, 2020 at 11:27 AM

I basically spent that whole session sobbing to Dr. T about various things as he empathized. I think it helped to get all that out, but I'm sort of exhausted now.

Though I have to say, his comment of "Even the 1918 influenza eventually ended. Not well, but it ended" was maybe not the best (his point was that was before biochemistry and stuff existed).

atisketatasket · Jul 15, 2020 at 11:47 AM

Yeah, but it didn't end through human agency. The virus disappeared and jumped to pigs. And it's now H1N1, which is just a seasonal flu virus except for the brief pandemic in 2009 with comparatively few deaths, and for which there is a vaccine. So it did actually end pretty well, imo.

Maybe a better way for him to put it would be if we didn't have so many developments in modern medicine and science since then, COVID in 1918 would have been a lot worse than the Spanish flu was. So we're really actually ahead of the game.

And because I feel like this whole post is too Dr. T in tone, here's some good news about a COVID vaccine.

stopdog · Jul 15, 2020 at 11:59 AM

Life has always been dangerous and no matter what we all die in the end one way or another.
I have less faith in a vaccine right off the bat than I do in just staying back from others. There have been some horrible rushed vaccine situations. I will not be in the batch of people who get a vaccine right off the bat - not until it has been out for a couple of years.

LonesomeTonight · Jul 15, 2020 at 12:00 PM

Wait, that eventually became H1N1? Didn't know that. I think by "didn't end well" was that the second wave was deadlier than the first, which he's brought up before. He's not exactly he cheeriest T... (I still think of the time, pre-pandemic, when he made the comment that we all ultimately die alone.)

stopdog · Jul 15, 2020 at 12:02 PM

I agree - we do all die alone. I guess I don't find it upsetting as a concept.

atisketatasket · Jul 15, 2020 at 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

Wait, that eventually became H1N1? Didn't know that.

Yup. Obviously in 1918 scientists couldn't get a genetic sequence of the virus, but in the 1990s they managed to find some still-frozen lung tissue in a 1918 victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost in which the virus hadn't decayed and were able to analyze it. It was the same strain as H1N1, which had been identified separately since 1918 as affecting pigs.

ETA: Looks like my school is starting to fold: now all classes with over 100 enrolled are automatically becoming remote (i.e., Zoom). Our staff scheduler expects that they may move down the ladder to lower-enrollment classes and do the same thing there.

unaluna · Jul 15, 2020 at 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

Life has always been dangerous and no matter what we all die in the end one way or another.
I have less faith in a vaccine right off the bat than I do in just staying back from others. There have been some horrible rushed vaccine situations. I will not be in the batch of people who get a vaccine right off the bat - not until it has been out for a couple of years.

Im always first for my flu vaccine, but not for a covid vaccine.

SD, youve been staying back in the couch library anteroom since before it was a thing! Youre prescient!

LonesomeTonight · Jul 15, 2020 at 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

Life has always been dangerous and no matter what we all die in the end one way or another.
I have less faith in a vaccine right off the bat than I do in just staying back from others. There have been some horrible rushed vaccine situations. I will not be in the batch of people who get a vaccine right off the bat - not until it has been out for a couple of years.

I'm putting more faith in them finding better ways to treat Covid. They've already made some progress with that, in terms of stuff like remdesvir (sp?), blood thinners in some cases, recognizing and treating cytokine storm, using positioning before ventilators, etc. That would make it less deadly at least. A vaccine would be great, but they never found one for HIV (granted, that's a very complicated virus), and they've found treatments that have made it more of a chronic condition than a death sentence.

atisketatasket · 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

SD, youve been staying back in the couch library anteroom since before it was a thing! Youre prescient!

Stopdog is actually a cat. They invented social distancing.

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Lemoncake Luna's offical mini me. Member Since May 2017 Location: Cafe Nervosa. Posts: 9,691 (SuperPoster!) 6 10.2k hugs given	Jul 14, 2020 at 01:13 PM #242 Well done Una on the showering. __________________ "Love, like life, flows Through the heart. Feel the thrill of the flow And say nothing."

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,217 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,754 hugs given	Jul 14, 2020 at 04:06 PM #247 break time yay i've been assigned to the hi-touch messages for the past 3 days and my shoulders are up around my ears this afternoon. working on these accounts is stressful. I think I'm having a margarita for dinner! I have an almost-empty bottle of the Costco variety in my fridge that I got for Christmas.

chihirochild Magnate Member Since Feb 2017 Location: North America Posts: 2,360 7 4,865 hugs given	Jul 15, 2020 at 09:29 AM #250 Camping with J

LonesomeTonight Always in This Twilight Member Since Feb 2015 Location: US Posts: 20,730 (SuperPoster!) 9 74.9k hugs given	Jul 15, 2020 at 11:26 AM #251 Have fun, Chihiro!

LonesomeTonight Always in This Twilight Member Since Feb 2015 Location: US Posts: 20,730 (SuperPoster!) 9 74.9k hugs given	Jul 15, 2020 at 11:27 AM #252 I basically spent that whole session sobbing to Dr. T about various things as he empathized. I think it helped to get all that out, but I'm sort of exhausted now. Though I have to say, his comment of "Even the 1918 influenza eventually ended. Not well, but it ended" was maybe not the best (his point was that was before biochemistry and stuff existed).

LonesomeTonight Always in This Twilight Member Since Feb 2015 Location: US Posts: 20,730 (SuperPoster!) 9 74.9k hugs given	Jul 15, 2020 at 12:00 PM #255 Wait, that eventually became H1N1? Didn't know that. I think by "didn't end well" was that the second wave was deadlier than the first, which he's brought up before. He's not exactly he cheeriest T... (I still think of the time, pre-pandemic, when he made the comment that we all ultimately die alone.)

stopdog underdog is here Member Since Sep 2011 Location: blank Posts: 34,722 (SuperPoster!) 12 1 hugs given	Jul 15, 2020 at 12:02 PM #256 I agree - we do all die alone. I guess I don't find it upsetting as a concept. __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.