Today is Saturday, April 25th 2020
My coworker got his COVID-19 test results back this morning and they are like mine, negative.
Excellent news to start off the weekend with!
This doesn't mean we can't contract Coronavirus, but we are in the clear.
I can go back to work on Monday.
In the back of my mind I think the worst may still be on its way. Especially if the President of the United States doesn't understand the meaning of sarcasm.
I really hope it's not just me who thinks Donald Trump is a baby in a playpen, learning how to talk. Touching things that interest him and saying whatever noise comes out of his mouth first.
Then taking the interesting things and putting them into his mouth.
My husband made me eggs this morning and I ate them with two slices of toast and some cantaloupe for breakfast. Afterwards I forced myself to go outside and start raking the leaves in the backyard.
Yard maintenance is hands down the worst of my first world problems. Our backyard is so wide we share the fence with four other homes. I wouldn't call all of them 'neighbours' though.
While I was outside I called my colleague who covered for me this past week at the office, to see how she felt about things. FaceTime is great for quickly catching up with someone. It's 100x better than a phone call when you can, at least I highly recommend it.
Sending a text message is only good for quick announcements,
- telling someone you're on the way
- also known as, letting your boss known you're running behind, or
- if you're on a bad date and need to be rescued
- asking someone a question you don't need to know the answer to immediately
A video chat is superior because you don't need to imagine the tone of the dialogue
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the only time we would Skype is when we wanted to chat to our family and friends who lived in other cities, or back home while we're on vacation somewhere.
Communication tools are suddenly being worshiped.
As I look over at the kitchen window where the plants live, I see the Poinsettia my aunt gifted us at Christmas turning brown. Leaves, formerly green have dried and fallen off onto the windowsill. Below it on the hardwood floor is my Aloe Vera, looking worse if I'm being honest.
I don't know whether to cry or laugh. Yesterday I threw the lemon tree into the green bin.
I take a closer look at the aloe and determine it needs more sunlight. And I'm not going to cry.
My solution to the pandemic is 1. wash my fucking hands 2. laugh my fucking ass off and 3. bring my houseplants back to life. Am I losing it?
The trouble is, we are treating this as a threat to public health and nobody knows when restrictions will end but everybody seems to have some sort of symptom! I think these could be related to the weather, the seasons changing and possibly something called hay fever?
I'm taking a break now, it's almost 4:20.
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25.4.20
24.4.20
Self-Isolation: Day 8
Today is Friday, April 24 2020
Waking up alongside the bright orange sun makes me smile.
My COVID-19 test results turned out negative. My nose is somewhat runny however I'm not considering this as a symptom of COVID-19 at this point. My colleague who tested the same day has not received his COVID-19 test results.
Each day, my commute to work would start with the University of Calgary radio station - CJSW.
I love listening to the disc jockeys explain why they choose specific songs. CJSW is an excellent place to hear songs you might not hear too often, and you also learn about artists who don't ever get the chance to be heard on the radio. That's probably the best/coolest part.
I'm listening now.
Currently, Seven Day Fool is playing.
Not only do I love this song but now I'm starting to think about how great a fit it is
Do you have a favourite day of the week?
Mine used to be Tuesdays since it was after Monday and we all know how manic Mondays can be. Then in college my favourite day became Thursdays since it was Student Night and that meant crazy deals on triple-highballs at the campus bar. #ThursDen (as in the University of Calgary's watering hole, "The Den.") Those were some of the most embarrassing nights of our lives.
Since March we have had major changes in our routines. We've had no choice but to adapt and adjust.
Seven days seem to blend together these days. Even though it has only been seven weeks, or eight now I'm not even sure - we must exude love. We must continue to show just how loving we can be.
We are living in the textbooks of the future right now.
Even though we can't physically hug, we can send hugs virtually through GIFs and emojis.
It's almost too easy to share love these days. Send someone a video clip or a song.
Make a playlist, like this Classic Metal Mixtape for 4/20 by CC Getty.
{19:50} I'm listening to it now.
Hit The Lights by Metallica is playing.
As my head bangs back and forth someone tells me to eat dinner.
I have the best husband in the whole world.
Thank you for the opportunity to protect and scribe.
Until tomorrow.
Waking up alongside the bright orange sun makes me smile.
But only for a moment.
A week ago I performed the online self assessment for Coronavirus through Alberta Health. And yesterday I got the good news by automated phone call from AHS COVID.My COVID-19 test results turned out negative. My nose is somewhat runny however I'm not considering this as a symptom of COVID-19 at this point. My colleague who tested the same day has not received his COVID-19 test results.
Each day, my commute to work would start with the University of Calgary radio station - CJSW.
I love listening to the disc jockeys explain why they choose specific songs. CJSW is an excellent place to hear songs you might not hear too often, and you also learn about artists who don't ever get the chance to be heard on the radio. That's probably the best/coolest part.
I'm listening now.
Currently, Seven Day Fool is playing.
Not only do I love this song but now I'm starting to think about how great a fit it is
Do you have a favourite day of the week?
Mine used to be Tuesdays since it was after Monday and we all know how manic Mondays can be. Then in college my favourite day became Thursdays since it was Student Night and that meant crazy deals on triple-highballs at the campus bar. #ThursDen (as in the University of Calgary's watering hole, "The Den.") Those were some of the most embarrassing nights of our lives.
Since March we have had major changes in our routines. We've had no choice but to adapt and adjust.
Seven days seem to blend together these days. Even though it has only been seven weeks, or eight now I'm not even sure - we must exude love. We must continue to show just how loving we can be.
We are living in the textbooks of the future right now.
Even though we can't physically hug, we can send hugs virtually through GIFs and emojis.
It's almost too easy to share love these days. Send someone a video clip or a song.
Make a playlist, like this Classic Metal Mixtape for 4/20 by CC Getty.
{19:50} I'm listening to it now.
Hit The Lights by Metallica is playing.
As my head bangs back and forth someone tells me to eat dinner.
I have the best husband in the whole world.
Thank you for the opportunity to protect and scribe.
Until tomorrow.
23.4.20
Self-Isolation: Day 7
Today is Thursday, April 23rd 2020
It's official - for seven days we have been at home, self-isolating.
I took down the sign in the window at our front door.
Anxious to hear back from Alberta Health about my COVID-19 test results.
Fuck it.
I didn't get laid off. I continue to work-from-home, self-isolation in Calgary is a blessing. Compared to the seriously vulnerable communities, those already at risk, we have nothing to complain about. Alberta Health is doing their job and so should we. But we're not really doing anything.
We can do better as I touched on yesterday - but we have to do more.
We simply must provide access to testing everywhere in this country.
{10:08 a.m.}
AHS COVID displays on my Samsung Galaxy S7
Incoming call, I answer.
It's an automated message for (insert my legal name here)
"The results of your COVID test are N E G A T I V E"
That's it?
Thank God, I mean, but, I mean, that's it?
According to my calculations, COVID-19 testing in Alberta takes approximately 7 days from requisition to results. I must continue self-isolating for 10 days or until symptoms stop (whichever is longer). This is the recommendation I received after a nurse phoned me on Friday last week following my COVID online self-assessment through Alberta Health.
I still have a runny nose.
Yesterday, I started the day with a headache. This is the main concern with Coronavirus: it is a number of viruses contained in one. We've seen COVID-19 already before.
My husband pours me a bowl of Jordans Morning Crisp this time. He slices half a banana. Fuck Yeah! And all of this seems like such a normal thing to do, but in the background a lot has happened in our lives since Friday the 13th.
I almost feel like that was the last day normal things really occurred.
Millions of Canadians have since lost incomes.
Even if the layoff is considered temporary, we have to think big picture. The majority of people will not look at our Prime Minister, or security of any kind, (emotional, financial, social, economical, etc.) the same way again. Asking for change all this time and only now do we clue in - we didn't get our shit together... last year? Now how does the government suddenly think they know, when, and how we're safe to resume work at full-speed?
Thankfully we have the boss, Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
I heard her say, "we are our best defense."
She's the only one we really trust.
Some of you know we got married about 8 weeks ago. You could say we're honeymooning in our home. Our friends have started to receive 'Thank You' cards in the mail - sending us well wishes via text message. We've remarked how lucky our wedding went off (without a hitch, ha!). Our last time together in a large group before gathering restrictions were put in place, was our wedding reception on the Leap Year Day.
Some of our family was unable to leave Asia to make our wedding. Because the borders between Laos and Thailand had already closed, aunts, uncles and cousins could not obtain travel visas to come to Canada. The sad part about this was it would have been their very first time visiting the Great White North. Where did that come from anyway - Great White North?
I guess it could have been Bob and Doug Mckenzie back in the good old days of Second City Television.
SCTV ran between 1976 and 1984 as a Canadian Television Sketch Comedy Show.
The comedy tells the story of a fictitious TV broadcast station (later network) in Melonville. To this day I'm not sure anyone really knows where Melonville was supposed to be. It was a funny show and I think six seasons aired on NBC. During its network run the show received 15 Emmy nominations. Sometimes episodes would compete for the Emmy. I watched a couple clips on YouTube tonight.
Right after, we learned The Calgary Stampede is cancelled for 2020.
It would have started on my birthday this year. But it was the right move.
Thank you for the opportunity to protect and scribe.
Until tomorrow.
It's official - for seven days we have been at home, self-isolating.
I took down the sign in the window at our front door.
Anxious to hear back from Alberta Health about my COVID-19 test results.
Fuck it.
I didn't get laid off. I continue to work-from-home, self-isolation in Calgary is a blessing. Compared to the seriously vulnerable communities, those already at risk, we have nothing to complain about. Alberta Health is doing their job and so should we. But we're not really doing anything.
We can do better as I touched on yesterday - but we have to do more.
We simply must provide access to testing everywhere in this country.
{10:08 a.m.}
AHS COVID displays on my Samsung Galaxy S7
Incoming call, I answer.
It's an automated message for (insert my legal name here)
"The results of your COVID test are N E G A T I V E"
That's it?
Thank God, I mean, but, I mean, that's it?
According to my calculations, COVID-19 testing in Alberta takes approximately 7 days from requisition to results. I must continue self-isolating for 10 days or until symptoms stop (whichever is longer). This is the recommendation I received after a nurse phoned me on Friday last week following my COVID online self-assessment through Alberta Health.
I still have a runny nose.
Yesterday, I started the day with a headache. This is the main concern with Coronavirus: it is a number of viruses contained in one. We've seen COVID-19 already before.
My husband pours me a bowl of Jordans Morning Crisp this time. He slices half a banana. Fuck Yeah! And all of this seems like such a normal thing to do, but in the background a lot has happened in our lives since Friday the 13th.
I almost feel like that was the last day normal things really occurred.
Millions of Canadians have since lost incomes.
Even if the layoff is considered temporary, we have to think big picture. The majority of people will not look at our Prime Minister, or security of any kind, (emotional, financial, social, economical, etc.) the same way again. Asking for change all this time and only now do we clue in - we didn't get our shit together... last year? Now how does the government suddenly think they know, when, and how we're safe to resume work at full-speed?
Thankfully we have the boss, Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
I heard her say, "we are our best defense."
She's the only one we really trust.
Some of you know we got married about 8 weeks ago. You could say we're honeymooning in our home. Our friends have started to receive 'Thank You' cards in the mail - sending us well wishes via text message. We've remarked how lucky our wedding went off (without a hitch, ha!). Our last time together in a large group before gathering restrictions were put in place, was our wedding reception on the Leap Year Day.
Some of our family was unable to leave Asia to make our wedding. Because the borders between Laos and Thailand had already closed, aunts, uncles and cousins could not obtain travel visas to come to Canada. The sad part about this was it would have been their very first time visiting the Great White North. Where did that come from anyway - Great White North?
I guess it could have been Bob and Doug Mckenzie back in the good old days of Second City Television.
SCTV ran between 1976 and 1984 as a Canadian Television Sketch Comedy Show.
The comedy tells the story of a fictitious TV broadcast station (later network) in Melonville. To this day I'm not sure anyone really knows where Melonville was supposed to be. It was a funny show and I think six seasons aired on NBC. During its network run the show received 15 Emmy nominations. Sometimes episodes would compete for the Emmy. I watched a couple clips on YouTube tonight.
Right after, we learned The Calgary Stampede is cancelled for 2020.
It would have started on my birthday this year. But it was the right move.
Thank you for the opportunity to protect and scribe.
Until tomorrow.
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