Darkness knows itself by name

[sovay]

I don't have COVID-19. But I had to get up at sleepless o'clock to be tested and it rendered the rest of the day effectively useless for anything beyond telecommunicating with the follow-up doctor in the afternoon, who did not at that time have my test results but was pretty sure from my symptoms and my accounting of the last month that I just had a respiratory crud. Then I had an asthma attack in the evening from our new upstairs neighbors' weed smoke drifting down the stairwell into my office—which really makes me feel safe about our pandemic air quality—and there is now a faint smell of burning electronics in our apartment, even though all of our computers appear to be safe. It was not the motor of the box fan which I had to prop in my office window in order to get the smoke out into the falling snow. I desperately want to be doing something with my brain, but I think what I may need to do with it is go to sleep.

Comments

[chanter1944]

You do not have Covid-19. Yay! Also whew!

Oh good, I'm not the only one who's of the opinion that pot smoke *stinks!* That stuff reeks horribly, and most of the people I know don't find it nearly as mildewed skunk spray foul as I do.

[ashlyme]

I find it rank, and I write as an abuser of tobacco. And probable hypocrite. :)

[sovay]

I find it rank, and I write as an abuser of tobacco. And probable hypocrite.

Heh. I can't breathe around cigarette smoke, either, but I have counterproductively nostalgic reactions to the smell of a few brands, because for much of my childhood my grandmother smoked Benson & Hedges and sometimes Kents. When it was possible to catch drifts of strangers' smoke and not immediately worry about catching anything else with them, every now and then I would walk through a cloud and for a second she would be there.

[ethelmay]

I don't mind a whiff of it in the open air, but not being able to get away from it is terrible.

[sovay]

I don't mind a whiff of it in the open air, but not being able to get away from it is terrible.

I appear to have developed an actual allergic/asthmatic* reaction to it in the last year, so my feelings have moved toward the negative and my body now reacts to the smell as if to the smell of coffee, i.e., it registers instantly as toxic.

* When last we checked, I don't have asthma per se, I have allergies so bad they effectively began to mimic asthma, but since I have now been on one regular and one rescue inhaler for it for nearly a year, this is a bit of an academic distinction by me. Really we need to move, which for financial and other reasons cannot happen any time soon.

[sovay]

You do not have Covid-19. Yay! Also whew!

Thank you!

That stuff reeks horribly, and most of the people I know don't find it nearly as mildewed skunk spray foul as I do.

I used to find a range of it aesthetically inoffensive and a range of it aesthetically gross, but now that it causes me literal and immediate difficulty breathing, I'm a lot less friendly to the entire concept.