{"id":1619,"date":"2023-09-21T11:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:38:56","slug":"virgo-month-of-enforced-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2023\/09\/virgo-month-of-enforced-leisure","title":{"rendered":"Virgo month of enforced leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlmhmd\/52426033953\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/52426033953_5a7152c69d_o.jpg\" alt=\"In this color illustrated postcard, a snake is curled around a bottle marked with a skull and crossbones. It is facing a rabbit, which appears to be sick, with its tongue hanging out and lying under a white blanket. The background of the card is light blue, with a portion of a gold circle in the lower right-hand corner and gold rays eminating from it across the card. The snake and rabbit are on a red background. In the upper right corner, behind the rabbit there is a gold spider web.\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/52426033953_5a7152c69d_o.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/52426033953_5a7152c69d_o-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/aug00b.html\">Virgo Month of Leisure<\/a> is wrapping up, an on-again off-again so-called holiday which I usually &#8220;celebrate&#8221; by doing something very complicated or time-consuming because I am me. This year I got COVID. And as these things go I was very lucky.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucky that I knew when I got it (at the library, from someone coughing on me) and so I was able to stay home and not infect anyone else\n<li>Lucky that I had tests at home and was able to confirm that I had it.\n<li>Lucky that I had access to both telemedicine and my local doctor so I was able to get Paxlovid even though I&#8217;m only somewhat eligible.\n<li>Lucky that I didn&#8217;t have Paxlovid rebound and found the metallic taste in my mouth manageable.\n<li>Lucky that my friends and neighbors stepped UP so I wanted for nothing except better health.\n<li>Lucky that my infection was brief (maybe four days of feeling pretty terrible) and didn&#8217;t include a scary cough and\/or breathing problems because I am extremely anxious about that sort of thing.\n<li>Lucky that I had a lot of tests at home so I could test a few times and know I was safe to go out once my symptoms (fever, aches, lethargy) subsided.\n<li>Lucky that I was feeling mostly better by my actual birthday and, despite having to skip getting together with Jim over Labor Day weekend, we did have a very nice make-up birthday weekend the next weekend and fit in all of our favorite things.\n<\/ul>\n<p>The woman I got it from is likewise okay though she had a much rougher time of it. While I certainly have a lot of complaints about how COVID response is being handled nationally (go get your vaccination! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covid.gov\/tests\">free tests available September 25th<\/a>!) my local response both personally and institutionally was not bad. I am happy to be better just in time to wave goodbye to the Virgo Month of Leisure. Better luck next year, me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2023\/09\/virgo-month-of-enforced-leisure\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Virgo month of enforced leisure\"><p>So the Virgo Month of Leisure is wrapping up, an on-again off-again so-called holiday which I usually &#8220;celebrate&#8221; by doing something very complicated or time-consuming because I am me. This year I got COVID. And as these things go I was very lucky. Lucky that I knew when I got it (at the library, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[634,83,4,284,544],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-covid","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","tag-virgo","tag-virgomol","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}