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6 months, more or less
Sep. 17th, 2020 10:27 amPeople keep pointing out that it's been six months since the schools & privileged bits of the US shut down. (Our schools shut on Friday the 13th, with "see you in two weeks!" ridiculous optimism.)
Grauwulf is back in the office full-time (though he's petitioning for a reduced schedule for mental health/meds side-effect reasons.) The Megatherium started virtual school on the Tuesday after labor day and the laptop that had been working beautifully since we started e-school last spring lasted two hours before running a windows update through the second 2-hour block of e-school which subsequently crashed the computer every time we tried to open a google meet for her to go to class. So she spent the last week doing school on my computer, which was less than optimal for several reasons, and we finally got a school-provided chromebook (everyone gets one, we just needed to bump ourselves up in the queue since we had previously thought we could wait until the last distribution.)
I got to the end of my rope with everything (hyper bored/lonely misbehaving child, grauwulf's issues, no alone time, noting everything that needs to be done and then not doing it until there are no surfaces to put anything down on... everyone says "well, yes, pandemic" but something had to give and my brain was the only one I could change) and threaded the labyrinth to the super secret Behavioral Health department to talk to someone about getting ADD meds. I spoke to the same lady who's been working with grauwulf, so I got to say "also I'm married to him, so *waves hands*" which was helpful. I'm on day 3 of attempting 20mg of Adderall (mandatory drug test, no mail re-order, thanks guys) which definitely has pushed the line of "notice you're hyperfocusing on the wrong thing, keep doing it anyway" back in the right direction, but may be a little too much, so it's probably about time to send another message to the doctor about reducing dosage.
But hey, look at me posting. Another week of this and I might even fix that story I want to send in to an anthology. That would be weird.
Grauwulf is back in the office full-time (though he's petitioning for a reduced schedule for mental health/meds side-effect reasons.) The Megatherium started virtual school on the Tuesday after labor day and the laptop that had been working beautifully since we started e-school last spring lasted two hours before running a windows update through the second 2-hour block of e-school which subsequently crashed the computer every time we tried to open a google meet for her to go to class. So she spent the last week doing school on my computer, which was less than optimal for several reasons, and we finally got a school-provided chromebook (everyone gets one, we just needed to bump ourselves up in the queue since we had previously thought we could wait until the last distribution.)
I got to the end of my rope with everything (hyper bored/lonely misbehaving child, grauwulf's issues, no alone time, noting everything that needs to be done and then not doing it until there are no surfaces to put anything down on... everyone says "well, yes, pandemic" but something had to give and my brain was the only one I could change) and threaded the labyrinth to the super secret Behavioral Health department to talk to someone about getting ADD meds. I spoke to the same lady who's been working with grauwulf, so I got to say "also I'm married to him, so *waves hands*" which was helpful. I'm on day 3 of attempting 20mg of Adderall (mandatory drug test, no mail re-order, thanks guys) which definitely has pushed the line of "notice you're hyperfocusing on the wrong thing, keep doing it anyway" back in the right direction, but may be a little too much, so it's probably about time to send another message to the doctor about reducing dosage.
But hey, look at me posting. Another week of this and I might even fix that story I want to send in to an anthology. That would be weird.