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'rona life, Day 2
May. 26th, 2022 12:15 pmOk technically this is "Day 1" of ten-day quarantine. Whatever.
Yesterday was rough. I was feverish and had the most stabbing headache; it felt like a nail being driven into my ears and temples at random times and made me flinch (good thing there's no one around to see me twitching like an idiot). My eyeballs hurt to move, it hurt to turn my head, my whole head was ouch.
I alternated between feeling ashamed for getting sick, guilty for causing my employer and the rest of the band the inconvenience of having to get a sub with only three weeks of tour left, frustration at not being able to leave the hotel, and sadness for having to miss the entire first week of Costa Mesa next week. Getting messages from misc members of the cast saying, "Wow, you have to STAY there, that SUCKS" wasn't helpful at all (yes, I f*cking KNOW it sucks, thank you for slapping me with it again).
I actually cried a little out of frustration and annoyance (again, don't pity me. I'll get over it.)
I wanted to sleep but couldn't, although I did manage to fall asleep around 10:30.
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Today is a little better. My temperature is still elevated, but yesterday I was up to 101F and now I think it's sticking around 99F.
The stabbing pains are still there but it's just in my temples; the sore throat and pain in other parts of my head seem to have gone away.
I feel less depressed about "missing" Costa Mesa.
By the time we're there I should be feeling better and able to walk around outside with a KN95.
So I should be able to do contactless delivery or pickup of food, groceries, and other goods.
I just can't do any indoor shopping or exploring until Sunday 6/5.
Our tour manager has gotten me a rental car so that I can drive myself to Costa Mesa, separate from the cast, on Tuesday.
I noticed that the car is reserved for a full 24 hours, so I can probably do a contactless pickup of groceries for the week (the one where they put the groceries into the trunk of your car). Very grateful for that!
As for today, I could definitely use some more sleep, but had to be up at 7am for training with TSOLife this morning.
TSOLife does analytics for nursing homes and assisted living (I think I've mentioned it before as one of the jobs I'd applied to).
So far we've had a Zoom chat with the Co-COO, in which she showed us how the company gathers information, shared company history and structure, and made sure that we could access most of the accounts and software we'll need to do our work (as always with stuff like this, there was some tweaking needed with account access and such but she's working on it).
It's still not 100% clear to me how we actually do the work, but it looks like we'll start off being assigned files and then once we get the hang of it we can grab assignments ourselves. It all seems very casual and low-pressure; there are timelines and there's a lot of work to do, but the timelines are reasonable and the work is not going to be dumped on us before we're ready. It looks like there are a lot of ways to ask for help too.
I'm pretty impressed with their analytics and how they use the information that they gather, and can see how it's very much needed in the assisted living industry. Basically the goal is to improve quality of life in a lot of different ways, but mostly by showing the nursing homes which of its residents have the lowest quality of life so that staff can focus on those individuals and do things to help them (suggest activities, arrange visits or trips, add more variety to meals, etc).
Even though the work doesn't pay well, it does seem to be beneficial and worth doing.
A few hundred bucks extra in my pocket in exchange for a little data entry ain't bad, I think.
We are on a lunch break now which ends in about five minutes (I'm on Pacific time so for me it's a snack break).
Then I think we have another hour or two of them showing us how to actually do the job?
And then the rest of my day is empty. Suspect that I will want a nap, and then wake up from that anxious for something to do.
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Training is over for today. It was a good overview of the work, but kind of difficult to get a grasp on the actual process without having access to a lot of the admin areas. They're working on granting us access now, then they'll give us some profiles to try out so we can explore the system, ask questions, etc.
Now it's time for lunch: canned tuna, canned veggies, bread, ho hum. Then hopefully a nap or a movie.
I'll have to start doing little exercises too each day. Sigh.
Yesterday was rough. I was feverish and had the most stabbing headache; it felt like a nail being driven into my ears and temples at random times and made me flinch (good thing there's no one around to see me twitching like an idiot). My eyeballs hurt to move, it hurt to turn my head, my whole head was ouch.
I alternated between feeling ashamed for getting sick, guilty for causing my employer and the rest of the band the inconvenience of having to get a sub with only three weeks of tour left, frustration at not being able to leave the hotel, and sadness for having to miss the entire first week of Costa Mesa next week. Getting messages from misc members of the cast saying, "Wow, you have to STAY there, that SUCKS" wasn't helpful at all (yes, I f*cking KNOW it sucks, thank you for slapping me with it again).
I actually cried a little out of frustration and annoyance (again, don't pity me. I'll get over it.)
I wanted to sleep but couldn't, although I did manage to fall asleep around 10:30.
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Today is a little better. My temperature is still elevated, but yesterday I was up to 101F and now I think it's sticking around 99F.
The stabbing pains are still there but it's just in my temples; the sore throat and pain in other parts of my head seem to have gone away.
I feel less depressed about "missing" Costa Mesa.
By the time we're there I should be feeling better and able to walk around outside with a KN95.
So I should be able to do contactless delivery or pickup of food, groceries, and other goods.
I just can't do any indoor shopping or exploring until Sunday 6/5.
Our tour manager has gotten me a rental car so that I can drive myself to Costa Mesa, separate from the cast, on Tuesday.
I noticed that the car is reserved for a full 24 hours, so I can probably do a contactless pickup of groceries for the week (the one where they put the groceries into the trunk of your car). Very grateful for that!
As for today, I could definitely use some more sleep, but had to be up at 7am for training with TSOLife this morning.
TSOLife does analytics for nursing homes and assisted living (I think I've mentioned it before as one of the jobs I'd applied to).
So far we've had a Zoom chat with the Co-COO, in which she showed us how the company gathers information, shared company history and structure, and made sure that we could access most of the accounts and software we'll need to do our work (as always with stuff like this, there was some tweaking needed with account access and such but she's working on it).
It's still not 100% clear to me how we actually do the work, but it looks like we'll start off being assigned files and then once we get the hang of it we can grab assignments ourselves. It all seems very casual and low-pressure; there are timelines and there's a lot of work to do, but the timelines are reasonable and the work is not going to be dumped on us before we're ready. It looks like there are a lot of ways to ask for help too.
I'm pretty impressed with their analytics and how they use the information that they gather, and can see how it's very much needed in the assisted living industry. Basically the goal is to improve quality of life in a lot of different ways, but mostly by showing the nursing homes which of its residents have the lowest quality of life so that staff can focus on those individuals and do things to help them (suggest activities, arrange visits or trips, add more variety to meals, etc).
Even though the work doesn't pay well, it does seem to be beneficial and worth doing.
A few hundred bucks extra in my pocket in exchange for a little data entry ain't bad, I think.
We are on a lunch break now which ends in about five minutes (I'm on Pacific time so for me it's a snack break).
Then I think we have another hour or two of them showing us how to actually do the job?
And then the rest of my day is empty. Suspect that I will want a nap, and then wake up from that anxious for something to do.
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Training is over for today. It was a good overview of the work, but kind of difficult to get a grasp on the actual process without having access to a lot of the admin areas. They're working on granting us access now, then they'll give us some profiles to try out so we can explore the system, ask questions, etc.
Now it's time for lunch: canned tuna, canned veggies, bread, ho hum. Then hopefully a nap or a movie.
I'll have to start doing little exercises too each day. Sigh.
