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Not the Covid
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Still feeling like shit, this morning before I go to work I do the test.
It's not Covid.
My head is clotted, filled with green lumps that come up every time I blow my nose or expectorate. My thinking - appropriately cloudy, as if I were trying to join thoughts through a dense cloud of frog spawn. Which lightly throbs and occasionally is blown out my nose or coughed into a Kleenex. These are not things to be trifled with.
Go to Volunteer, wear a mask.
Today is Volunteering, apparently now I'm on the "schedule" for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. They tell me the salary. Lol.
I have been a long time away from the retail end of things. This will financially help me out only in proving my destitution, which - really, I was trying to get away from.
Anyways, it's a short term gig, "contract", until they clear up the backlog, the Volunteers alone aren't cutting it, so - head down for the next few weeks, try and get it done so I can be off to do other things...
Normalizing LGBTQ
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And, while I've nothing against the diversity of sexual expression, I can't help but wonder at all this "normalizing" of LGBTQ.
I think it's important to accept people regardless of their sexual orientation, don't get me wrong. But to "normalize" it? Meh. And why should - really - anyone's sexual orientation or predilection be any of my business?
It used to be we "normalized" things like owning a house, having a job, children. And we accepted people who chose differently. But it seems that as this becomes less and less of a possibility we've come to embrace "the alternatives" as the new normal - which they are not, they are compromises to an increasing fractured and divisive economy and society. Which - to an extent - might explain the rise of the far right in the USA and elsewhere.
Wanting to own a house, settle down, have children? This is the new "perversion".
And - note - it's in every wealthy persons interest to "normalize" settling for less - lower wages, higher prices - anything that brings money into their pocket has to be legitimized and regarded as "normal".
Work, Volunteering
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Work, at 3 days a week, enough verging on too much but there are the bills of winter still overhanging.
Volunteering, an unstoppable tide of kitchen kitsch, dishes, cups, pots, pans, a 40 foot trailer unloaded - this is never ending, the avalanche of disposable goods...there is no need for humanity to manufacture another thing - another coffee mug, another plate. We have it all. The manufacture of said goods should be prohibited.
Asking my workmate he estimates a third of all donations end up in the landfill.
This is - in my observation - a gross underestimation. More like a half. Two thirds even. And it's not that there is a lack of quality in the donations (often there is) - it's often just the sheer superabundance of repetitive items.
Like branded coffee mugs. Unless your brand is "Nike" or "Adidas" or "Gucci" or "Starbucks" don't put it on a coffee mug. It's not promotion, it's manufactured rubbish.
I could go on.
Anyways, the volunteering has led to another commitment - they need to hire someone - 2 days a week - why not? I need the cash. And so my schedule is filling up.
The boy, on his way to pick up his sister in Vancouver and take her on the big tree planting adventure - stops by in Nelson Wednesday/Thursday. There's not much going on in town these days, we go for dinner, catch up, I'm envious of their impending adventures, half thinking I want to tag along, it's been awhile, make it a proper family adventure...
Not now - right now - there's other things that beg my attention.
And now, something new, a persistent, phlegmy cough, runny nose, congested sinuses, foul breath, could it be the plague? I'm saying probably not, there's a lot of other things going around, in any event, even if it is the world is still turning and no restaurant is shutting down for this again, there will be no time off allocated, and so it's just be miserable and shake it off.
The weather, unusually dry, cool, but spring is not far off - in 2 weeks we'll have extraordinary weather, in 4, 5 weeks will begin the fires and heat domes, all while trying to persuade ourselves "this is the new normal", and it is, but it's not normal at all...not at all.
And so - for the moment - that's it.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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Saw this with the boy. Amusing, but no "Being John Malkovich". And Nicholas Cage has done a much better job of being himself in other movies - like "Mandy". Better than expected, but - not much.
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