Doggone. I just recovered from it a couple-few weeks ago. Sleep as much as possible, stay hydrated, and hang there.
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Thank you all for the sympathy. Honestly, this year has been a rollercoaster for me, and I’d say that the bad outweighs the good. This was really the cherry on top.
I don’t feel very bad. I’ve honestly had worse sinus infections when I was a kid. I tested myself yesterday morning more on a whim, and the result surprised me because I thought it was just a cold or something. I’m more depressed about the circumstances.
I’d been preparing very diligently for an exam to earn my C2 German certificate, which clearly isn’t happening this week. I really wanted to be done with it. Of course this isn’t the end of the world – I can prepare myself even better to take the test in hopefully the not too distant future. But I did lose some money from this, and not being able to go to work in person in the meantime is somewhat limiting.
It’s hard to not blame myself, so I am busying myself as much as I can at home.
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12/7
50 pullups
75 pushups
Something to do this morning. At least this forced time off has enabled me to set up and start working from my new MacBook Pro. I have also been going on long walks.
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My partner had a very similar case last week, felt slightly bad for 3 days then was fine, I hope you have similar outcomes.
Winnie wishes you wellness!
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Thanks, I appreciate you and Winnie! Give her all the pets from me.
To answer your other question: This year I spent 89,000 minutes listening primarily to indie pop, modern rock, compositional ambient, dreamo, and German indie. So, no bubble grunge for me. And you?
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Listened to 65k minutes (13k fewer than last year and 56k fewer than my all-time high in 2019, sadly). Think that’s a function of working at home and not having to have music to distract me. Saw a decent amount of shows though, happy with my music this year.
Top 5 were Indie Rock, Bubblegrunge, Rap, Indie Pop, and Stomp and Holler. I haven’t even bother looking into what Stomp and Holler is, the Front Bottoms are “Folk Punk” among other things so I’m just naively assuming that’s how I got lumped in there.
I’m currently making my way through Paste Magazine’s top 50 albums of the year, I haven’t made it very far, somewhat torturous but will hopefully find a few I like.
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Now I’m curious (I wouldn’t know what that is tbh - any specific bands?)
I attribute most of those listens to Provinz, but I’m also a fan of Yukno and Betterov, for example.
12/8
150 24kg goblet squats
BPA
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12/9
60 pullups
150 dips
20-minute run
100 BPA
I already feel 90% back to normal in everyday life, which makes my situation even more laughable. Ha ha ha. A little winded on the run.
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12/11
VDIP W7D3
Pullups 10,7,8,6
Press 65x3x4
BtN press 50x8x8
3x4 standing ab wheel
5x20 BPA
Dips +15x14,11,10,10
Two sets of tabata running
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12/12
VDIP W7D4
Deadlift 215x3x2
Front squat 100x3x10
SA KB press 14kgx4x6
BB curl 35x36
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12/14
I ran for 20 minutes en route to work and for 10 minutes on my way back.
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12/15
VDIP W8D1
Pullups 9,7,8,9
Bench 102.5x4 (PR),4,3
Push press 70x10,7,8
Standing ab wheel 3x4
5x20 BPA
Pushups 12,9,10,12
PR on bench, largely because I had never tried to bench that weight for reps. I have benched 105x3 before though.
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outstanding. congrats.
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Any bench PR deserves a comment. Well done
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It’s a bench-PR kind of day! Congratulations.
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That is fantastic! Right after being sick to boot!
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Thanks all. I appreciate the comments.
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12/16
AM
VDIP W8D2
SSB squat 145x4,4,3
Deficit RDL 135x3x10
SSB lunge 75x9,8,8
PM
3x400m run: 1:30, 1:25, 1:35. Oof…
Very lackluster day. Everything will be much better when I enter a surplus again… sometime soon. At the very least I did not have to fight tooth and nail against Ticketmaster today for Death Cab/Postal Service tickets, so that is the silver lining amidst my Bad Time lately. Also, I will finally do something social again this weekend.
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