Sick Day (Sick Week) Media

I mentioned a few days ago that I have a cold. It's a doozy... I'm still testing negative for covid, and I don't think it's the flu either, since I haven't had any body aches or fever particularly.

It's been at least five years since I had a cold. As this virus heads into almost a week, I'm looking forward to it finding its way to the end, where it will maybe just be a nagging cough. That would be great at this point!

Here's what I've been reading, watching, and listening to during the week, when I'm not trying to sleep or taking a bunch of different medications I normally wouldn't:

• Podcasts: Normally I'm not a big podcast listener, but being sick is one of those times when they work for me! (Though sometimes I fall asleep while they're running.) I've listened to the most recent episodes of If Books Could Kill and You're Wrong About, and two of Dave Roberts' Volts (the ones on The Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities and Lessons from a Life in Progressive PR
  
• Movies: I rewatched Being There for the first time since the early 1980s. Late 1970s nostalgia! Ah, simpler times.
• Television: I watched all eight episodes of The Bear, plus the most recent episodes of Abbott Elementary and Saturday Night Live. Tonight I'm going to record the Rosa Parks documentary on MSNBC. Plus my usual daily diet of Jeopardy and All in with Chris Hayes.
• Social media: I'm still reading Twitter as it dwindles and transmogrifies. My own experience of it is relatively unaffected because I'm a small, unimportant user and I only view tweets from accounts I follow in reverse chronological order, never using the recommended algorithms or trending topics. But even so, I can see there's less on there of interest to me, and a lot of it is people talking about Twitter. My Mastodon account, which is on a local Twin Cities instance, is cool so far, and I just got a Project Mushroom account, which also runs on Mastodon, but is closed off from the rest of the Fediverse, at least so far. PM is made up of climate activists around the world, with thousands more being added all the time. I've also gotten an account on a platform called Post, but I don't like it how it seems and I don't know if I'll stay.
• Books: I'm rereading (for the first time) Lyda Morehouse's four-book AngeLINK series. They're early 2000s cyberpunk that I remember seemed predictive of where some things have gone since they were written, and I wanted to see how they have held up. I'm on the third book, currently.
  

Well, it's time for another dose of some medication or another.