I don’t normally write about politics, but the events of Wednesday’s insurrection in the Capital leave me with a pretty dire desire to vent, and I might as well take advantage of the platform I have here to do so. What happened Wednesday isn’t really surprising at all if you’ve been following current events of […]
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Quarantine: Weeks 10-13
I received the news this week that my quarantine will soon be over—my Bureau is finally beginning to phase people back into work next week. I have very mixed feelings over this. It will be nice to be on a regular routine again, and have some sense of productivity, but I will miss my afternoon […]
Quarantine: Weeks 5-9
Day 64: I’m going slightly mad… About a month into Quarantine, sanity slowly started to erode as extreme boredom set in. I started to run out of home projects to work on, as well as the motivation to do anything but sit on the couch and consume a steady stream of musicals and sci-fi. Les […]
Life in the time of Coronavirus
I’ve been very on-edge over the last week with the development of the Coronavirus pandemic. The WHO officially declared it a Pandemic today. At work, they’ve been frantically searching for volunteers to staff the call centers downstate and perform other epidemiologic work according to individuals’ skill sets. The Governor, in addition to declaring a State […]
The week in review: 2/2/20-2/8/20
We live in exciting times… The past 7 days have seen another scandalous Superbowl Halftime Show, the Great Iowa Caucus Counting Debacle of 2020, a prediction for an early Spring by the world’s favorite weather-casting rodent, and a SOTU address by the world’s least favorite rodent. Here’s the highlight reel: And somewhere in there, […]
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