Lisa Sieverts

Currently reading: What Could Be Saved: A Novel by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz 📚

Finished reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚I don’t know what genre to put this in. Mystery? Fantasy? It’s elegantly crafted and in a way is about writing: what does it mean to be in a character’s head? I liked it.

Weirdly warm, misty afternoon for a long walk

Long covid is destroying careers

Long covid is destroying careers, leaving economic distress in its wake

Good article, but this statement makes it sound way too easy to recover: “Employers and patients need to understand that many long haulers should return to work on a limited, part-time basis, perhaps working from home, while they slowly work on building strength, he said.” In my brother’s experience, there’s no way to “slowly work on building strength.”

Washington Post no paywall

I deleted TikTok on my phone. Yay, me! It’s unbelievable what a time suck it had become. “I’m too old for TikTok!” “I won’t spend more than two minutes looking at TikTok!” Yeah, right. The only way to protect myself is to completely remove the temptation.

Currently reading: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 📚

Finished reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚I enjoyed it just as much as the first one in this series. A teenage “witch” growing up in Nigeria, fighting evil and developing self-awareness.

Currently reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚

I forgot my Apple Watch today for the first time in years. So what’s the point of exercising since I won’t get credit for it? 😂

Good podcast about chronic illness in general

Long COVID and the Blind Spots of American Medicine

Apple Podcasts Link

I basically got nothing done today but I did buy these nifty winter boots. That metal plate is a mini-crampon that can be flipped out when I need more traction here in the land of ice and snow.

Currently reading: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 📚

Currently reading: Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor 📚

Finished reading: Slade House by David Mitchell 📚Loved it, even though it verges on horror. I had the experience that happens to the characters – losing myself in time while the story/orison was told, but luckily the author didn’t steal my soul, I think.

For patients with long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome may offer a guiding star | New Hampshire Public Radio

Finished reading: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor 📚a fun YA read with great characters

Uh oh. I bought myself one of those Ember mugs that keeps your beverage at the perfect temperature for hours. Now I can drink an entire pot of black tea in the morning. #overcaffeinated

She’s checking to see if possibly this spot will be warm enough for her