Apr. 30th, 2020

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Yeah, so I am not great at regular daily updates. Ah well. Anyway, since I last posted there have been things! And stuff! Most of which were fairly everyday and boring, but, y'know, I will mention them because this is my journal and I do what I want. *wry*

Monday: Rental company office 9am-5pm. Continued data entry for old tour information. Also distributed all the move-out packets into the mailboxes of one of our three big apartment buildings. This took MUCH LONGER than it should have, because I was removing all junk mail at the same time. I filled three large trash bags worth of paper, which I carted down the hall to the ground floor recycling bin. OUCH.

Tuesday: Moved my container garden outside for keeps! I also did my annual spring cleaning laundry, which involves stripping not just my sheets but also my comforter, my mattress pad, and my mattress protector and dumping them in front-loader washing machines -- and my winter coat, and my little fleece blanket for good measure. It runs about twenty dollars to tack those on to my normal three loads, but it needs doing and now I have a very clean, fresh bed. :)

Wednesday: Grocery day. I should perhaps mention here that I have been comfort-rereading the Books of the Raksura (or at least the ones my library has in ebook form (and has available; one has been checked out this whole week, argh)). I have also been reading some regency urban fantasy gay romance books (the A Charm of Magpies trilogy) by K. J. Charles, since the first book is currently free on Amazon and dammit, I needed to know what happened next. And I put away some laundry.

Thursday: Back at the rental company office. More data entry, more move-out packets. But the packets are finally all distributed! ...Which, of course, means that tomorrow we start sending out emails saying "Hey, your move-out packet is in your mailbox/in your apartment, please read it and follow the instructions" and also adding something about "if you're not in Ithaca right now, here is how to return your keys and here is what you need to do to make sure we send your damage deposit return check to where you will be at the end of your lease".

I also finished putting away laundry, and listened to episode 165 of the Magnus Archives ("Revolutions") which is mostly a very long poem. That was... well, it was odd. There is a strong pattern to these various "hellscape" statements, which is that because they are all one thing, and that thing turned up to eleven (or more), they don't have the same effect as the previous season statements. This is because there's no contrast left. I hope this turns out to have thematic significance as the season progresses, in the sense that a world that's entirely FEAR isn't actually that great for the Fears themselves -- sort of like an ocean of junk food instead of properly spaced out nutritionally balance meals. Or something like that, I dunno.

Anyway, spoilers )

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I am probably getting too meta.

Also, I am going to make dinner now. :)
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Given that I have lost a fair bit of income due to Covid-19 and my consequently reduced hours both at Not the IRS (for the tail end of regular tax season) and at the rental company office (ongoing, no specific end in sight but I assume we'll be running short hours through June at least), tonight I updated my health insurance application via New York's state health marketplace website.

It looks like I am once again poor enough to be on the state-subsidized Essential Plan rather than a regular insurance plan with Advanced Premium Tax Credit. The switch will take effect on June 1. (I really should have done this last week, in which case the switch might have gone into effect on May 1. *sigh* Hindsight!) This is good for my budget... and honestly, probably good for my health care in general, since the Essential Plan offers good coverage whereas on my own I was using one of the mid-range silver plans with a worryingly high deductible.

(Can we please have single-payer health care already???)

Anyway, I made my best guess at my new, reduced annual income for 2020 and uploaded a bunch of payslips to show my loss of hours and money, since the health plan people want some proof that I'm not pulling numbers out of thin air.

In other financial news, my stimulus payment arrived today so I have written a check for my May rent. I texted Landlord Dude a couple days ago to let him know I'd be a few days late, but he should have my money by May 5. He was fine with that, which does not surprise me because I suspect some of his other tenants need rent reductions or greater grace periods. I have enough savings to get by paying in full through December, but I would really rather not rely on that because it's taken me a long time to build my savings account back up to a non-terrifying level after my years of un- and under-employment.

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Anyway, that is quite enough adulting for one day. I am now going to make myself a Black Russian and do nothing productive whatsoever for the rest of the evening. :)

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Elizabeth Culmer

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