Last summer I took a class on the history of witchcraft prosecution, and this summer I’m taking one on cults and new religious movements (both of which, oddly enough, feel very relevant to the precarious position women and anyone with a uterus find themselves in right now). My uni doesn’t exactly have a horror curriculum, so when there aren’t creative writing classes to take, I’m hobbling together horror-adjacent classes wherever possible. Now that I’m feeling mostly better, this weekend I will be doing some writing–for the class I’m taking this semester. Thankfully, the vaccines/boosters work as intended. well, a mask isn’t magic when you’re the only person wearing one. I never stopped wearing them, but when you’re stuck in a doctor’s waiting room for five freaking hours in a tiny waiting room full of unmasked jerks. Let me just say that I appreciate everyone who is still wearing masks–and especially people who wear good quality N95 and KN95 masks that fit well. While my experience this time around has been incredibly different (30 hours of medium-level body aches/fever vs 2+ weeks of severe body aches/fever, plus double pneumonia and three days in the hospital), there’ve been studies about the effects of cumulative COVID infections that doesn’t exactly fill me with excitement. We have both suffered from long COVID (in very different ways) since our first go-round in November/December 2020, back in the pre-vaccination days. So far he’s still testing negative, and I’m quite grateful for that. My husband is upstairs, trying to avoid my germs. For July in Philadelphia, it’s a surprisingly decent day–and when I say “surprisingly decent,” I mean that the humidity isn’t high enough to make you want to hide out in the freezer. So much for the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.Ĭurrently, I’m sitting on my couch, binge-watching disaster movies and recovering from my second bout of COVID-19. I guess being stripped of your rights, dignity, and privacy will do that to a person. That has certainly redirected quite a bit of my energy into political issues. What I never truly believed is that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. It’s difficult to think too much about writing a novel or submitting short stories to anthologies and magazines when you’re trying to finish up a master’s degree. I knew 2022 was going to be a quiet publishing year for me.
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