Greetings folks! Welcome to A Song of Zion, our weekly check-in and virtual minyan for Jews on Daily Kos. This is an open thread, and we treat it as a safe space for Jewish folks here. Non-Jews are welcome but we ask that they listen more than speak. No squabbling, please: if you want to fight, please step outside. (H/T wasplover)
Folks may have noticed that there was no post yesterday. The problem is I thought yesterday was Wednesday. I thought that the entire day- despite looking at my calendar multiple time, and attending two scheduled doctor’s visits where I had to write forms which included the date. Before Covid I was very reliable. I always made my appointments early and never missed them. I went most years without a single call-out of work, showed up early every day while working two jobs, and was the first to come in when someone else didn’t. I could juggle easily.
These days I still show up early. I was a half hour early to my first appointment yesterday. But.. I now make catastrophic mistakes at least every few months, like missing an appointment entirely, or showing up early for the completely wrong day or time. I’ve learned to live and die by my phone. Anything that needs to happen goes straight into it. And usually that keeps me on task… Except when I’ve entered it wrong to begin with because I was confused in the first place. I haven’t had Song of Zion in my phone because I thought I could keep track of Thursday. Apparently not. My apologies for letting folks down. It’ll be in my phone for the future.
Missing appointments and messing up days is only the tip of this garbage iceberg for me. I even added a Hebrew name- Aleksandra to try and help me heal, give me a new lease on life. I intend to make a longer post about that and my history with Long Covid in the future. As always, Covid is terrible. Hope everyone out there stays as safe as they can. Hope everyone is well, and hope you all have a great Shabbat.