Lisa Sieverts

Currently reading: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker 📚

Currently reading: Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs 📚

Dependence or independence? I look for a healthy mix #mbnov

I love traveling by train. Someone once said that when you travel “your soul moves at the speed of a camel.” Thus part of jet lag is that you’ve left your soul far behind. WIth a train, it catches up faster. #mbnov

My memory seems like a slippery, wriggling fish, sometimes silvery bright, sometimes dull. I easily remember my delicious tea – Sea Smoke – from this morning. But when showering, did I already wash my hair? #mbnov

Currently reading: Ulysses by James Joyce 📚

Finished reading: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 📚

Yesterday I ran 5k and it didn’t seem all that far. Two years ago, I attempted a baby Tri-athlon. I did OK on the swim and the bike portions, but basically walked the entire 5k. So yesterday was a nice personal milestone on my health and endurance journey. #mbnow 🏃‍♀️

Run for an entire 5k. Slow but steady. It was early on a grey, cold morning, but not spooky at all. 🏃‍♀️ #mbnov

I guess I’m going to give up on pretending to work today. It’s Friday, it’s my 6th day in a row in the office, and clearly my brain is fried. #mbnov

The pandemic is leading to some wear and tear on my soul. Luckily, today, I get to go down to town (15 miles away) and very carefully get some car work done and buy take-out dinner. Cases are rising in our state! #mbnov

Say Saying Said. There are so few opportunities for speaking person to person these days. Yesterday I counseled a friend in project management. We met outside, sipping coffee, enjoying sunshine while chatting. I hope she found what I said useful. #mbnov

Finished reading: Inland by Tea Obreht 📚 I didn’t love it, mostly because I liked none of the characters, except perhaps Burke the camel.

I’m reading a book called The Guest Book. I can match each character to a member of my family. This one, elderly, was born the same year as my mother. That one is the age of my aunt. And this one is my own age, exactly. I’m finding that it invades my dreams. #mbnov

Currently reading: The Guest Book by Sarah Blake 📚

Somedays I have to force myself to work. But I find that I can get right to it if I do a few things right. First, do no more than 5 minutes of email in the morning. Save the beautiful, productive, AM hours for real thinking work. Then the rest of the day goes smoothly. #mbnov

The word bind makes me think of bindweed, a weed that infested my Idaho garden and was so difficult to eradicate. #mbnov

I find that when I consciously inflate my lungs as I breathe, I am calmer and more mindful. #mbnov It’s interesting how often I forget to do this.

I haven’t had much time for puzzling over puzzles. I do enjoy a good word game, and recently spent some time on a pretty Apple game called tint. #mbnov

There’s that period play, She Stoops to Conquer. I never understood that title. #mbnov

This could be a near miss and I could be wrong but I do believe Biden will be the winner once all the votes are counted. I have to say I am praying for this outcome. #mbnov

I’m staying calm and planning not to be astonished by the electrion results, whatever happens #mbnov

Anyone remember my Python project? I had to give it up BUT I’ve just discovered that the local Makerspace is offering a 10-session Python class for non-programmer beginners. I signed right up. So maybe I will be able to automate scraping those 400 addresses.

I’m trying so hard to concentrate because I have a lot of prep to do for a class I’m teaching on Thursday. But the state of the world and the state of my brain are making this difficult. Breathe and be mindful. #mbnov

Note this is a pre-print article: Neuropathology and Virus in Brain of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Non-Human Primates | Research Square

Here, we show for the first time, microhemorrhages and neuropathology that is consistent with hypoxic injury in SARS-CoV-2 infected non-human primates (NHPs). Importantly, this was seen among infected animals that did not develop severe respiratory disease.