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castalieHello, flist. I wrote this last night but apparently fell asleep before I could hit send, meant to post it before work, then forgot. This is the perfect example of how I'll find myself with a post ready to go live and no update on my LJ for days. So, quick, coffee break before my next online meeting and let's post this.
Having a leisurely walk in Paris (or any kind of walk, really) is a luxury these days since we mostly stay home and that particular outing was especially enjoyable. I actually took that shot (metro station at the Tuileries) because I wanted to share it with you. There, sometimes I take pictures for the sole purpose of online sharing. I'm still working from home, no surprise here and as I was enjoying a nice little latte, I was trying not to have murderous thoughts for some people at work (not my coworkers, thankfully). Work is still pretty dense, I guess I'm not getting bored? (Between you and me, I wouldn't mind just a little bit of boredom). February, 2nd was was the Chandeleur so we made our traditional crêpes - that was super lovely.
Obviously, I'm still watching k-dramas, I mean, when am I not, these days? But! I did pause my k-drama to catch up with the new season of Prodigal Son. I really enjoyed those first episodes, they were pretty wild and very on-brand for Prodigal Son. I think it bodes well for the rest of the season :)
Oh, and yesterday was a perfect example of your 'Pandemic Sunday' as at any other time we would have gone to the movies or seen an exhibit (it was the perfect type of weather for that, grey and wet) likely followed with a visit to a favourite coffeeshop. Instead it was Jenga at home. We had fun, though ;)
And you can't see it in the pic but I had my first swab test! I started coughing ten days ago and you know how it is, the time when you could just wait before going to the GP is long behind us so I went to see them and, no surprise, I got a one-way ticket to the infamous swab test. (Also, the place where I had it was super sketchy - totally official, mind, but it felt so "suburby"...). Anyway, the results came back negative, it was just your run-of-the-mill bout of bronchitis (early days, even) but seriously, I'm basically home all the time, I've been taking all the bloody precautions we've been advised to from the get to and I get sick? At least it was nothing serious (although I'm still coughing to this day so colour me a bit frustrated. Also tired, you guys. My GP thought I looked pretty tired and I was just "Is there any other way of being these days?").
Apart from this little "adventure", things are still going well - as good as they can under the circumstances? No, they're going well. It's a bit difficult telling the difference these days ;)
Hope you're all doing well too, flist *hugs*
Having a leisurely walk in Paris (or any kind of walk, really) is a luxury these days since we mostly stay home and that particular outing was especially enjoyable. I actually took that shot (metro station at the Tuileries) because I wanted to share it with you. There, sometimes I take pictures for the sole purpose of online sharing. I'm still working from home, no surprise here and as I was enjoying a nice little latte, I was trying not to have murderous thoughts for some people at work (not my coworkers, thankfully). Work is still pretty dense, I guess I'm not getting bored? (Between you and me, I wouldn't mind just a little bit of boredom). February, 2nd was was the Chandeleur so we made our traditional crêpes - that was super lovely.
Obviously, I'm still watching k-dramas, I mean, when am I not, these days? But! I did pause my k-drama to catch up with the new season of Prodigal Son. I really enjoyed those first episodes, they were pretty wild and very on-brand for Prodigal Son. I think it bodes well for the rest of the season :)
Oh, and yesterday was a perfect example of your 'Pandemic Sunday' as at any other time we would have gone to the movies or seen an exhibit (it was the perfect type of weather for that, grey and wet) likely followed with a visit to a favourite coffeeshop. Instead it was Jenga at home. We had fun, though ;)
And you can't see it in the pic but I had my first swab test! I started coughing ten days ago and you know how it is, the time when you could just wait before going to the GP is long behind us so I went to see them and, no surprise, I got a one-way ticket to the infamous swab test. (Also, the place where I had it was super sketchy - totally official, mind, but it felt so "suburby"...). Anyway, the results came back negative, it was just your run-of-the-mill bout of bronchitis (early days, even) but seriously, I'm basically home all the time, I've been taking all the bloody precautions we've been advised to from the get to and I get sick? At least it was nothing serious (although I'm still coughing to this day so colour me a bit frustrated. Also tired, you guys. My GP thought I looked pretty tired and I was just "Is there any other way of being these days?").
Apart from this little "adventure", things are still going well - as good as they can under the circumstances? No, they're going well. It's a bit difficult telling the difference these days ;)
Hope you're all doing well too, flist *hugs*
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Date: 2021-02-08 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-28 06:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-08 05:16 pm (UTC)I'm basically home all the time, I've been taking all the bloody precautions we've been advised to from the get to and I get sick?
That was my reaction. A couple of weeks ago, I had a seriously dripping nose one day; I was blowing every 5 minutes, and I'm speaking quite literally. I instituted my normal "early cold treatment" and swallowed massive doses of Vitamin C -- 3000 mg every two hours. But I grumbled all day -- "I wear a mask every time I go to town; HOW could I get a cold?"
The next day I was fine, but I made an appointment for a test, anyway; there's so much caution about very minor symptoms. The local pharmacy passed it out in an extendable drawer, and I swabbed myself, then put it in a bio-hazard vial and passed it back. It was negative but, as you say, we just can't "wait and see" anymore.
(So I still don't know what the sniffles were. If it was a cold, it was gone in 36 hours, which just doesn't happen, even with my Vit C treatment. If it was allergies... it's winter, there's nothing growing, and I take allergy pills every day anyway, so what could have triggered it? Is a puzzlement.)
And what I meant to say before that side-track... the saying on the plaque seems very Nicky-like, especially the first three. He doesn't need to "keep calm", because he almost always is, but he might give others that advice. <g>
And once again, my thoughts circle back to The Old Guard. <snicker>
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Date: 2021-02-28 06:34 pm (UTC)the saying on the plaque seems very Nicky-like, especially the first three.
Hey, you're right, it does lol
my thoughts circle back to The Old Guard.
You won't hear me complaining!
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Date: 2021-02-28 08:56 pm (UTC)So, after I commented, I forgot about the plaque, but your reply led me to check it out again... and I want to save it. (It might turn up in a fic someday; I can see Nile giving it to Nicky for whatever occasion she decides is a good excuse.) So I copied your pic, loaded it into Photoshop, and cropped it to save just the plaque.
BUT! Now that I've done that, it appears that there is a sentence under each of the large goals. Unfortunately, the resolution is far too poor for me to decipher them. But you know my reaction to the printed word -- I want them ALL!!! <g> Would you be so kind as to copy them into a reply to this so that I could save them? Whenever you have a spare moment; there's no rush of course.
Thanks
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Date: 2021-02-28 09:15 pm (UTC)No worries! Here it is:
Be kind. Have patience with the world.
Do good. You are so much stronger than you think.
Share love. There is so much beauty in the world.
Keep calm. Trust that everything happens for a reason.
You can find the original here :)
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Date: 2021-02-28 10:23 pm (UTC)Thank you! I've already found and 'cleaned' a suitable frame in Photoshop. Now I can add all the text. I'm saving it as "Nicky's Creed" and have no idea what I'll ever use it for, but it satisfies my soul to do, so.
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Date: 2021-02-09 01:41 pm (UTC)I'm up to date apart from the last ep of Prodigal Son, and am enjoying the new season so far. It's nice to see them all again.
I'm glad you don't have Covid, though yeah, you wonder how any germs can make you sick at all. Hope you're feeling okay apart from the coughing and tired. Though, both of those are a lot on their own.
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Date: 2021-02-28 06:45 pm (UTC)I'm now late again! You'd think that the two-week hiatus would have given me ample time to catch-up, you'd be wrong. And now we'll get a new episode next Tuesday and I'll be even more late. Oh, well, I guess I forese a little PS marathon in the near future ;)