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Nov. 20th, 2020 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobel::falls over exhausted::
IFOPA (international community of people with fop and their families and also researchers and generally anyone involved with something fop-related) is having virtual conference this weekend (today tomorrow Sunday). Much zoom. Much videos. Much exhaust. Headache for half of today. Really wanted booze but it seemed like bad idea given headache.
Trying to walk my mom through figuring out whether she’s gotten a Facebook invite that she's expecting, didn't help. I had the foresight to say I wouldn’t be available for tech stuff during any of the sessions, so she just ambushed me afterwards instead. I always make the mistake of thinking it's just one quick thing to answer, then it turns into a whole saga of trying to figure out where she is and what she's seeing and it's just a pain. And she also wanted me to report on how my convention sessions went and what all did I learn and argh.
Also at least half my aides are going home for thanksgiving. Which is very annoying.
I'm generally indifferent about thanksgiving in general (the food is yay but no reason to limit it to one Thursday; the pilgrim-Indian-BFF narrative that modern thanksgiving is based on, that I grew up learning in school, is a thin cutesy veneer over a stegosaurus-sized pile of steaming 💩 that is the actual history, so I can't enjoy that and don't want to celebrate it; and I'm hella introverted. So I usually do tday stuff with my mom because it is hella important to her, but because COVID I'm not comfortable sharing a meal (I'm probably one of like twenty Americans following cdc advice lol). My introverted ass is quite okay with that.
But having aides gone is simultaneously annoying and understandable. I can't make them not want to do thanksgiving with their families, even in pandemic, but I don't magically stop needing to pee on holidays. And this year it's not just gone for the weekend, but a bit longer because COVID testing and quarantine buffer and such. I don't really have much leverage to say "no you can't go"; I can tell them it's inconvenient but if I say "you can't go you have shifts" I worry that they'll just up and quit, and then I'll be even more up a creek.
(also whyyyyyyy does my tablet keep all-capsing COVID argh)
::keels over in utter exhaustion::
IFOPA (international community of people with fop and their families and also researchers and generally anyone involved with something fop-related) is having virtual conference this weekend (today tomorrow Sunday). Much zoom. Much videos. Much exhaust. Headache for half of today. Really wanted booze but it seemed like bad idea given headache.
Trying to walk my mom through figuring out whether she’s gotten a Facebook invite that she's expecting, didn't help. I had the foresight to say I wouldn’t be available for tech stuff during any of the sessions, so she just ambushed me afterwards instead. I always make the mistake of thinking it's just one quick thing to answer, then it turns into a whole saga of trying to figure out where she is and what she's seeing and it's just a pain. And she also wanted me to report on how my convention sessions went and what all did I learn and argh.
Also at least half my aides are going home for thanksgiving. Which is very annoying.
I'm generally indifferent about thanksgiving in general (the food is yay but no reason to limit it to one Thursday; the pilgrim-Indian-BFF narrative that modern thanksgiving is based on, that I grew up learning in school, is a thin cutesy veneer over a stegosaurus-sized pile of steaming 💩 that is the actual history, so I can't enjoy that and don't want to celebrate it; and I'm hella introverted. So I usually do tday stuff with my mom because it is hella important to her, but because COVID I'm not comfortable sharing a meal (I'm probably one of like twenty Americans following cdc advice lol). My introverted ass is quite okay with that.
But having aides gone is simultaneously annoying and understandable. I can't make them not want to do thanksgiving with their families, even in pandemic, but I don't magically stop needing to pee on holidays. And this year it's not just gone for the weekend, but a bit longer because COVID testing and quarantine buffer and such. I don't really have much leverage to say "no you can't go"; I can tell them it's inconvenient but if I say "you can't go you have shifts" I worry that they'll just up and quit, and then I'll be even more up a creek.
(also whyyyyyyy does my tablet keep all-capsing COVID argh)
::keels over in utter exhaustion::
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Date: 2020-11-26 12:47 am (UTC)Your tablet is taking orders from the AP style guide and I don't think you should have to put up with that linguistic conformity!
<3 re aides.
Hope your headache, at least, has passed and your mother finds a copy of a helpful book under her pillow. (Not actually an endorsement.)