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As of Wednesday, I am fully vaccinated! T-11 days to full immunity! I got lucky with the side effects in that I pretty much had none; my arm didn't even hurt as much as with the first shot. (I did have a headache the morning after, but it was the same headache I'd had before I got shot #2.) The poor man waiting out the fifteen minutes in the row in front of me almost fainted, but they were super prepared - there were five medical people on him immediately to make sure he was okay. It seemed like they treat a vaccine fainting reaction similarly to when you nearly faint when donating blood. He was okay pretty quickly, thankfully.
Z, unfortunately, while being statistically less likely to get side effects, got hit by them hard that night and the day after :( Fever and body aches and everything. He is now doing much better and is currently being more affected by getting used to his new glasses - he got his prescription updated after a decade and his eyes changed a lot.
I am counting down the days until I feel safe to go skating again. Till then, I took out my roller skates again when the weather was co-operative. I've been increasingly frustrated with how quickly they started to hurt my feet... so I went fuck it and modded them myself. I have not been desperate enough to take a craft knife to the sides yet, but it turns out that you can just use a hair dryer to soften them. I made something to help expand them where they need expanding, but it was hard to get it in and the inside doesn't really heat up, at least with the hair dryer I have, so I, uh, just wore my thickest socks and laced it on my foot. While they still need more work, my right foot is no longer in spiking pain after less than fifteen minutes and I can practice mohawks and three-turns for longer, so. Progress!
A mysterious package arrived on my doorstep earlier this week. I was confused because the only package I'm waiting on is from Russia (it has been in St. Petersburg for a month! At least they finally processed it through the shipment office two weeks ago) and this was from a US book store. Turns out my mom bought me a new book as a surprise 🥰 She saw the subject - daily life in the Edo period through actual documents of the time - and knew I would love it. Can't wait to read it!
My mom also encouraged me to sign up for in-person commencement when I was hesitating - they only let me know last-second that I was even eligible to sign up as a December graduate, and the safety protocols sounded a bit obnoxious. But oh well, it's one event. I do wish they weren't so disorganized, though. They asked us to fill out this form and then it was that form instead, the hooding ceremony is on Saturday whoops no it's on Friday morning hope you don't mind lol.
Anyway... I rewarded myself for finishing another job application last night by getting the new Pokemon Snap. The game is too addictive. Some of the pokemon are super cute, and I love seeing them in their nice little fake ecosystems. It's also really fun to throw apples - sorry, fake apples that are totally fluffy and non-harmful - at their heads to make them annoyed xD Research!
Z, unfortunately, while being statistically less likely to get side effects, got hit by them hard that night and the day after :( Fever and body aches and everything. He is now doing much better and is currently being more affected by getting used to his new glasses - he got his prescription updated after a decade and his eyes changed a lot.
I am counting down the days until I feel safe to go skating again. Till then, I took out my roller skates again when the weather was co-operative. I've been increasingly frustrated with how quickly they started to hurt my feet... so I went fuck it and modded them myself. I have not been desperate enough to take a craft knife to the sides yet, but it turns out that you can just use a hair dryer to soften them. I made something to help expand them where they need expanding, but it was hard to get it in and the inside doesn't really heat up, at least with the hair dryer I have, so I, uh, just wore my thickest socks and laced it on my foot. While they still need more work, my right foot is no longer in spiking pain after less than fifteen minutes and I can practice mohawks and three-turns for longer, so. Progress!
A mysterious package arrived on my doorstep earlier this week. I was confused because the only package I'm waiting on is from Russia (it has been in St. Petersburg for a month! At least they finally processed it through the shipment office two weeks ago) and this was from a US book store. Turns out my mom bought me a new book as a surprise 🥰 She saw the subject - daily life in the Edo period through actual documents of the time - and knew I would love it. Can't wait to read it!
My mom also encouraged me to sign up for in-person commencement when I was hesitating - they only let me know last-second that I was even eligible to sign up as a December graduate, and the safety protocols sounded a bit obnoxious. But oh well, it's one event. I do wish they weren't so disorganized, though. They asked us to fill out this form and then it was that form instead, the hooding ceremony is on Saturday whoops no it's on Friday morning hope you don't mind lol.
Anyway... I rewarded myself for finishing another job application last night by getting the new Pokemon Snap. The game is too addictive. Some of the pokemon are super cute, and I love seeing them in their nice little fake ecosystems. It's also really fun to throw apples - sorry, fake apples that are totally fluffy and non-harmful - at their heads to make them annoyed xD Research!
