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So, in regards to Microbiology: I am apparently the Voice of the Students, as no one wanted to email anyone about what was happening. Rather than stick my head in dirt, I emailed the teacher and the director of online studies and around 8:30 A.M. the next day I got a call from the microbiology teacher. I guess she sees me as the de facto leader of the brigade against her and wanted parlay. Either way, we chatted for a good 20 minutes about what we wanted in regards to the class, what I thought we could improve on, and I found it to be an overall diplomatic and worthwhile event. I then went and got a 84 on my microbiology exam, which I find to be just okay enough. I'm a pretty big snob about getting all As, but with this class I'll take whatever passing grade I am gifted.

I dragged my body out of bed today at a reasonable time (8 am) to do my Soviet Workouts with Alex, then afterwards I was quickly shipped off to a funeral that thankfully only lasted about 45 minutes and I was back at my apartment after 2 hours. I'm looking forward to tomorrow, where I can relax with him all day and not have to worry about a funeral interrupting me, maybe we can even go to the park.

He and I like to go to the nicer part of town often just to walk on the bike paths to get a semblance of exercise other than deadlifting multi-gallon jugs, and we passed a place that was surprisingly busy. I gasped a lot and pointed at it like a child while Alex, being a native of the city, explained that it was a restaurant modeled after Blade Runner. I don't like Blade Runner, I think it's overhyped, but the set design is fantastic in my opinion as well as the lighting and worldbuilding, and for that I like the ~aesthetic~. I didn't want to get too close to it because there were a lot of people skirting PPE guidelines, but I got a blurry photograph on my ancient phone of the logo.



Don't ask me what that says.

I also found this much nicer picture on google of what this place looks like. It is nauseatingly bright.

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The past day has, as I mentioned, been dedicated to schoolwork. We have a terrible microbiology teacher who focuses on the minutiae of details instead of the big picture; I couldn't tell you anything about what we learned, honestly, only trivial facts that have nothing to do with the coursework as a whole. I've done a lot of emailing but I doubt she will do anything as she mostly has gotten defensive at the fact most of the class is failing. As if that is our fault, not hers. I get mad just thinking about it, so I don't even know why I've written about it more here!

I rage cleaned my tiny bathroom after I got an email telling me and the other students to more or less suck it up. Because my hair has gotten so long from quarantine I put a bandanna around my forehead to keep my hair back, in which Alex immediately has begun calling me 'Daniel-San'. I think I'm hitting more of a Jack Dawson a la Titanic hairstyle lately, which I'm enjoying and it's not like I'll be getting a haircut anytime soon.
 

Texas is beginning to reopen for Some Reason, but our mayor has been cool enough to force a mandatory mask policy. Of course, men with too many guns and Punisher stickers on their Jeeps are bawling about "muh freedoms" when that was enacted. Freedom to not wear a mask and catch Covid and die, I guess? The states is quickly winning the Darwin Awards, what with all the stupid protestors and people saying its infringing on their rights to wear PPE in public. I've felt particularly dismal about this pandemic after seeing the South act ... Like the South, but I'm also just cranky today from Microbiology.

Apologies for the cranky post, I'll try to be less bitchy in future iterations of my days.
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I hauled my ass out of bed to do a funeral today on my day off, which I was already cranky about ... but such is my luck I stepped in a fire ant hill at the service and got swarmed. I remained as poker faced and professional as possible as I shuffled off behind the hearse where no one could see me and proceeded to scrape the ants off my legs, socks, and shoes, with my wallet until my limbs were sufficiently bitten up and red, then dumped water all down my legs. I slid back into the service, sockless (the ants had Overtaken them and I had to abandon them into a bag in the car), and finished it off. Family didn't seem to notice. Grief blinds you in many ways; sometimes, it's convenient for the funeral professional who is getting attacked by insects.

I am apparently having a Very Good reaction, so says my medical professional boyfriend. He's fussed over me the minute he heard I got swarmed, producing hydrocortisone, benadryl, and reese's cups as soon as he picked me up from work. He's a water sign and a natural worrywart so he's been taking this a lot more seriously than I have. Instead of having dozens of pus-filled blisters, I just have slight redness and bumps.

Texas is full of surprises.

I came home and iced my legs while playing Animal Crossing, then switched over to sadly pawing through my 1930s cocktail book and imagining my prohibition party when Covid has been quelled. Under the cut are some ads that tickled me:


Read more... )

I have to drag myself out of my comfy bed tomorrow at 6-ish so I can transport a body to the local airport to be shipped off, then Tuesday I have another funeral to work on. I love my job, don't get me wrong, but business is booming for all the wrong reasons and it's getting to be overwhelming.
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 Stolen from [personal profile] annofowlshire , hope you don't mind

1. Are you an Essential Worker?

Yes, mortician.

 

2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?

Like … 2. Alex used to be a bartender and I just shove anything into my mouth that is in front of me and edible/drinkable.

 

3. If you have kids... Are they driving you nuts?

No, my plants have been quiet. Too quiet.

 

4. What new hobby have you taken up during this?

Trying to get back into reading, but I taught my boyfriend how to cross-stitch. He loves it.

 

5. How many grocery runs have you done?

At least once or twice a week. I make a lot of instant pot food that lasts us quite a while, and if not that then Alex will make Korean food of some variety.

 

6. What are you spending your stimulus check on?

Entirely on my mortuary education. :(

 

7. Do you have any special occasions that you will miss during this quarantine?

My best friend’s wedding, my and my bf’s birthday… Amongst regular holidays.

 

8. Are you keeping your housework done?

When I am home I’m choking down Embalming Tomes, so it’s not as clean as it should be.

 

9. What movie have you watched during this quarantine?

TOTAL RECALL AND IT WAS SO STUPID AND GREAT. Also Hausu!

 

10. What are you streaming with?

Roku, and whatever I can get my mitts on.

 

11. 9 months from now is there any chance of you having a baby?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

12. What's your go-to quarantine meal?

Ramdon (Ramen/Udon, it was in Parasite but Alex and his family have been making it for years), pork and cabbage over rice, uhhhhhhhhhh Air……..

 

13. Is this whole situation making you paranoid?

I HAVE SEEN TOO MANY DEAD PEOPLE

 

14. Has your internet gone out on you during this time?

Consistently and it’s making me insane

 

15. What month do you predict this all ends?

A while, but I think orders will be taxed around mid-late summer… I hope

 

16. First thing you’re gonna do when you get off quarantine?

Go thrift shopping! Oooohh I miss it…

 

17. Where do you wish you were right now?

In the forest, alone, on a mountain, with Bigfoot. No human contact. No COVID. Just ticks and Lyme disease.

 

18. What free-from-quarantine activity are you missing the most?

Concerts and skate parks and seeing friends…

 

19. Have you run out of toilet paper and hand sanitizer?

Nope, I’ve had a stock for a while. I only ran out of paper towels when my garbage disposal broke a few weeks ago

 

20. Do you have enough food to last a month?

Hell no, I’m in the US. Do you think anyone has money?


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Me and my boyfriend were gym bros before this whole quarantine thing began. He used to be a personal trainer before he entered healthcare, so he's been coaching me through deadlifting. I need it when I'm hoisting 400lb+ bodies on gurneys.
But now that the petri dishes called gyms are closed, we have been doing SOVIET WORKOUTS: AKA, lifting gallons of water, boxes of multi-gallons, and bags of potatoes. We do it in the corner of the patio looking like a bunch of buffoons, but will we look like buffoons when we can physically punch the Covid away, or shake it down for its lunch money?

I've been obsessed with myulchi bokkeum lately; miniature Korean anchovies fried with soy nuts. It's apparently a drinking snack, but I just have been shoving it down my gullet at every opportunity. I'm not Korean, but Alex is half so I get to try all these unique foods from his mom when I visit. Nothing else can make you feel like a human vulture when you floss, picking tiny fish bones out of your teeth.

We've been with Alex's parents a lot, lately; Being a male-male couple deep in the heart of Texas, with him being half Asian during a time of anti-Asian racism because of the corona, his parents have been worried about an increase in hate crimes and want us to stay with them. When in stores with Alex, people have visibly eyed him as if he had a miasma of Covid around him; it doesn't help that his allergies are horrible and make him sneeze up storms. Luckily no one has started anything with us, but I've been on guard. SIGH.

When our apartment together is ready after all this Covid nonsense, we're going to be having a prohibition party to break in the new chapter in our lives and ... Y'know. Entertain the masses. We spent some time looking at alcohol in an old recipe book for the party and I'm tickled by some of the advertisements.



Pictured: Me
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Listen, we all miss the old days of LJ. You know what I mean, you're here after all. We all miss just talking about our boring lives without having to make the quick witticisms of 140-count social media constraints. We all like talking about the grocery store, or going to Applebees, or a book we finished, and right here is a way to ramble for days about the White Peach Sangria drinks at Applebees. Or whatever else there is to talk about.

So, you all are gonna be subject to me here. Where I talk about my cross stitch, or a cool bug I found, or if a corpse puked on me today at work. I've been wanting to get into journaling but I had no reason to until I just decided to Just Do It (tm).

Since everyone is talking about the quarantine, let's talk about that: As a mortician, I'm considered essential. I'm still going into work, which is whatever since money, but I'm getting jealous of all my friends who have free time for things like Animal Crossing and sleeping in until 9. (I, for reference, have to wake up at 7 AM).
I'm pretty lucky to have today and tomorrow off, though -- I'm chugging through Tom Nook's loans at a moderate speed and when I'm not doing that, I'm doing a cross stitch of lemonade for my kitchen. I'm pretty chill with the quarantine; A lot of my hobbies are indoors, so it's not like I'm missing out. Me and my boyfriend, Alex, have been spending most of our time with videogames, crafts, TV, or him studying for his licensing exam while I lounge nearby enjoying that I'm not going to be dealing with academia until the 6th, where I'm going to be finishing the last half of my mortuary degree. Hurray, Anatomy II and Microbiology! 

I plan on journaling regularly to get my thoughts down. Even if it's just talking about some dumb thing I did or watched, it's nice to look back, right?!

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