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how cold? ice cold
Jul. 30th, 2021 06:40 am1.
( spoilers for last book in Coldfire trilogy )
2. In Sexual Anarchy, Showalter suggests that in the face of religious doubt, the Victorians turned to work as a replacement for the opiate of religion, that they used work as a way of avoiding the big questions of introspection and existential horror (201). I've been thinking about that ever since I read it especially since my relationship to and feelings about work have changed so drastically over the pandemic.
I think there's a lot to unpack in my relationship to work, and a lot of it stems from my Protestant upbringing (thanks, Puritans!), but that connection is one I've long recognized and done a lot of thinking about already. This one not so much.
One thing the pandemic did was force inactivity and stillness on me in a way that I had not experienced before. My health did that as well; treatment for mono is literally resting.
Before the pandemic, I constantly worked. My mental health suffered if I didn't work. I always felt antsy and anxious by the end of summer break because it was too long. I was ready to get back to work and external routine. Too much downtime made me feel unmoored.
But that forced reset made me see the value in not working, in prioritizing using my time in other ways. And when I read that passage in Sexual Anarchy, it really resonated with me because I can see that's one of the things I was doing with work--using being busy as a distraction from those big questions of introspection.
Wow, that's a lot of navel gazing. So what are your thoughts onyaoi work? LOL
3. Last night the AC broke, and our AC guys came out within a hour or so of being called. I cannot stress how grateful I am to have found skilled technicians who are reliable. One of the things I have quickly learned as a new homeowner is that (at least in this area) it is really difficult to find plumbers, electricians, and other technicians who are willing to come out here. It is really frustrating. Every single time we have had a problem, these people have been out here in a matter of a few hours and fixed it quickly and for relatively inexpensively. So grateful.
This time, some wires burned up out at the breaker, tripping the breaker which fortunately worked as it was intended and prevented a fire. The people who built this house were so fucking stupid. They used a wire that was too small for the breaker so eventually over time (and it did last like a little over a decade), it just gave out. So he fixed the AC for short term and is coming out and replacing the breaker and putting in a wire of the proper size this weekend so that won't happen again.
( spoilers for last book in Coldfire trilogy )
2. In Sexual Anarchy, Showalter suggests that in the face of religious doubt, the Victorians turned to work as a replacement for the opiate of religion, that they used work as a way of avoiding the big questions of introspection and existential horror (201). I've been thinking about that ever since I read it especially since my relationship to and feelings about work have changed so drastically over the pandemic.
I think there's a lot to unpack in my relationship to work, and a lot of it stems from my Protestant upbringing (thanks, Puritans!), but that connection is one I've long recognized and done a lot of thinking about already. This one not so much.
One thing the pandemic did was force inactivity and stillness on me in a way that I had not experienced before. My health did that as well; treatment for mono is literally resting.
Before the pandemic, I constantly worked. My mental health suffered if I didn't work. I always felt antsy and anxious by the end of summer break because it was too long. I was ready to get back to work and external routine. Too much downtime made me feel unmoored.
But that forced reset made me see the value in not working, in prioritizing using my time in other ways. And when I read that passage in Sexual Anarchy, it really resonated with me because I can see that's one of the things I was doing with work--using being busy as a distraction from those big questions of introspection.
Wow, that's a lot of navel gazing. So what are your thoughts on
3. Last night the AC broke, and our AC guys came out within a hour or so of being called. I cannot stress how grateful I am to have found skilled technicians who are reliable. One of the things I have quickly learned as a new homeowner is that (at least in this area) it is really difficult to find plumbers, electricians, and other technicians who are willing to come out here. It is really frustrating. Every single time we have had a problem, these people have been out here in a matter of a few hours and fixed it quickly and for relatively inexpensively. So grateful.
This time, some wires burned up out at the breaker, tripping the breaker which fortunately worked as it was intended and prevented a fire. The people who built this house were so fucking stupid. They used a wire that was too small for the breaker so eventually over time (and it did last like a little over a decade), it just gave out. So he fixed the AC for short term and is coming out and replacing the breaker and putting in a wire of the proper size this weekend so that won't happen again.
