Working On A Quirky Graph

Brought my mom some lunch today, as well as a break from dogsitting with a strained right shoulder. The best part about living in St. Louis City is the wide variety of amazing local places. There are so very many to choose from, but lunch today came from Gramophone, one of my favorite sandwich places. Mom had the Peoples Pastrami, while I grabbed the Walk This Way. I’m always happy with everything I get there, but I realized I probably wanted the Mississippi Nights Club instead.

ps. that isn’t a picture of our lunch… unfortunately.

I’ve had three glorious days off, where I have done nothing. Nothing I was supposed to, nothing that would help me find a job, nothing besides ones load of laundry and laying about in bed. I’ve spent money where I shouldn’t, I’ve wasted time rereading books and spoiling my cats. It has been really really nice.

Of course, this means I will pay for it later. I will work 5 days straight, not a true hardship I guess, but it will quickly get old. Plus, I have a job interview on Thursday to be a tutor. Which means I should have spent the time brushing up on my skills on HackerRank, but I can’t go back and unmake decisions. I absolutely need to find something to help me use my skills more than I am. Right now I’m not in the office enough and I’m definitely not coding so I need to make some lifestyle choices. I keep reminding myself that coding is like a language skill. If I don’t brush up on it every few days, I will forget what I’ve learned. Of course, this is usually I have at 2 am, while I’m snuggled in my blankets, but it is still a conversation I’m having with myself.

I have been trying to avoid the news as I’m tired of hearing how the current president is deflecting how he lost the election and screwing up the country, but it is so hard to avoid. Simply because we are in the middle of the pandemic and they are getting ready to lock down the country as well as the city. I worry about the local restaurants and how they will survive the winter season. Several have closed over the winter to try and return in the spring, another local bar, the Handlebar, going down last weekend. There are so many who are effected by the shutdowns and the never ending illness. I simply don’t understand how people can walk around without a mask on, putting other peoples lives in danger because they are throwing a temper tantrum.

The best thing that has come from this pandemic is how much amazing information I have opted into as alternatives. Prepping, I guess, in case a real life pandemic occurs and we don’t have grocery options, I’ve been paying closer attention to local farms, like Known & Grown, which gives greater visibility to urban farms and the struggles they encounter. It shouldn’t take an epidemic to clue myself into the world around me, however…