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Elizabeth's avatar

I’ve been mostly working from home since March, but every so often, like today, I have to go in for meetings. I couldn’t sleep last night, and it’s been that way every night before I have to go in. I mentioned to my brother how it’s going to be hard adjusting my sleep schedule when work in the office becomes a regular thing again, and he said, “Well, you’ve been going in for high-stress stuff.” (Public meetings where I might be one of the few people wearing a mask in rooms with bad ventilation.) Which is true. My retired parents (in good shape for their age, but still with serious health conditions) live with me, and my nightmare right now is catching covid and passing it on to them.

Most days, when I can hole up at home except for walks outside, I actually feel okay. But when I have to go out and be confronted with people who are acting like everything’s normal, I can’t sleep. 😬

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Geri Diorio's avatar

Are you familiar with William Gibson's most recent two books, The Peripheral and Agency? In those, our world experienced a slow motion catastrophe he calls the jackpot. It's a combination of climate disaster, war, toxic politics, and unrestrained capitalism. We are in the jackpot right freaking now.

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