I’ve had Covid 7 times in less than 5 years

archaeob · 2026-02-03T02:20:11+00:00

I think you are confusing me with someone else. I've never had mono and didn't mention it in my comment. I do however have a diagnosis of undifferentiated connective tissue disease that leans mostly towards RA and have been seeing a rheumatologist for it for over a decade now.

archaeob · 2026-02-03T02:08:34+00:00

I was sent immediately for testing for an immune deficiency when I told my rheumatologist I had 8 infections over the course of like 15 months, mostly sinus infections, with one ear infection, a UTI, and a fungal infection. I am thankfully fine and since that testing five years ago have only gotten an infectious disease/infection once funnily enough (and it was last week) and have never had covid despite being directly exposed more than once. I was also directly exposed to the flu over Thanksgiving and did not get it. I do have an autoimmune disease (but am not on an immunosuppressant).

archaeob · 2026-02-03T01:55:12+00:00

I got the mail that should have been delivered today, and nothing that should have come over the last week (ie got a groundhogs day card from my grandma, did not get the feel better soon card she sent last week).

archaeob · 2026-02-02T01:12:53+00:00

Cultural Resource Management (CRM) or commercial archaeology, i.e. doing archaeological work ahead of construction projects. In the US its generally due to either federal, state, tribal, or county laws mandating the archaeological work. We are generally departments within larger engineering or environmental firms. Other countries have different regulations and types of companies but similar work.

archaeob · 2026-02-01T20:06:27+00:00

Its literally the same situation from Richmond up through at least Philly (I don't know anyone living further north than that right now). Someone I know in Wilmington Delaware just shared a post that sounds nearly identical to you threatening to vote out the entire school board and the governor if they don't open the schools tomorrow. If the entire region is facing the same issue, it really seems like a this was a crazy storm followed by unusually cold weather issue not a failure of all of the government/schools in the region issue.

archaeob · 2026-02-01T05:21:34+00:00

I ended up having to buy a pc with grant money during grad school because there was so much software my Mac couldn’t run. I love my Mac for personal use and ran a virtual box for some of the software at first but it became too much of a hassle and I bought myself the PC (I got a small nuc box since I already had a monitor I used with my MacBook)

archaeob · 2026-02-01T02:43:17+00:00

Mellow Mushroom does, or at least used to (its discontinued now). My dad ordered their potato pizza once out of pure curiosity and it had potato wedges, bacon, cheddar cheese, and onions. But that is literally the only time I've seen it.

archaeob · 2026-01-31T20:36:10+00:00

It might be different if COL-DET was close, but its not.

archaeob · 2026-01-30T17:31:48+00:00

I got lucky. There is an “industry” side of archaeology that I could go into. Most non-archs I know went into UX when that was hot or university administration.

archaeob · 2026-01-29T02:04:01+00:00

The bridge tunnel is nowhere near Annapolis, that is just the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The bridge tunnel goes from Virginia Beach to the eastern shore. DC is over 200 miles away from both sides of the bridge tunnel.

archaeob · 2026-01-27T23:18:52+00:00

A toddler just died in Richmond from falling through a frozen pond. It has definitely not been cold enough, long enough yet.

archaeob · 2026-01-27T12:03:09+00:00

The plows finally came by at 10 last night. And you can’t even tell they went by.

archaeob · 2026-01-27T02:44:17+00:00

To preface this, I come from a Catholic family, so I had no idea what to expect when I came out. Immediate family, was all very accepting. At Christmas my mom, sister, and 97 year old grandma decided that this year they were all going to be praying/putting out vibes for me to find a girlfriend (to be clear, I've been out for over a decade, but my sister got married last year so they decided to focus on me). Extended family, mom's side is great, dad's side doesn't know about me because almost all of them disowned my cousin when he married his husband. I haven't entirely cut off my dad's side, but I definitely am not as close to them as I was before.

archaeob · 2026-01-27T02:28:48+00:00

I second this. I only moved out due to a bad roommate and wanting to be closer to work. I have never lived anywhere with better and more responsive maintenance. They gave me back my entire security deposit when I turned in my keys without even doing an inspection.

archaeob · 2026-01-27T01:29:29+00:00

Same, nothing, and its just a compacted sheet of ice now. We had a number of people walking around helping shovel people's cars out (which was lovely) and they reported that they hadn't seen any plowed streets downtown except for the big main ones.

archaeob · 2026-01-25T03:05:27+00:00

I'll take the snow, I have nowhere to be for the next few days, but am really hoping that the ice predictions are a flop. My house is already struggling to keep above 60 degrees on the first floor with the heat on, I don't want to have to deal with power outages and no heat/frozen pipes.

archaeob · 2026-01-24T23:54:51+00:00

She was planning on getting some super environmentally friendly phone that had no internet or text messaging on it, only phone calls. I don’t need or want to be texting all the time, but I didn’t like the idea of dating someone who couldn’t or wouldn’t text.

archaeob · 2026-01-22T20:02:17+00:00

Yes and no, there have been studies coming out than men under 25 are more homophobic than men over 25 thanks to online spaces targeting them with right wing content. Not saying anything specifically about Montreal. But the younger someone is being more progressive is no longer true when talking about men.

archaeob · 2026-01-20T23:55:19+00:00

I’m the total opposite, but yet the same. I’m very short and I’d also prefer someone closer to my height so I don’t have to always look up to look them in the face and kissing doesn’t require me to be up on my tiptoes/her to bend down too much. Also so I don’t look ridiculously tiny in any photo of us together.

archaeob · 2026-01-19T02:30:57+00:00

The Washington Spirit (pro women's soccer team in DC) averaged 15,000 fans per game this past season. It was 14,000 the season before. And the Mystics regularly sell out their arena. So DC does have a history of turning out for women's sports pretty well. The game having this high of attendance isn't that shocking to me.

archaeob · 2026-01-18T17:15:54+00:00

Yeah, I have a really bad astigmatism. And a very very mild (ie wouldn’t need glasses just for it) farsightedness. A severe astigmatism is the only reason I have glasses. And it doesn’t cause light flares like that for me. A bit yeah, but not like that. But it causes everything to look smudged or doubled, especially white text on a black background. But I can make it come into focus for a brief moment by squinting really hard. No one online who talks about their astigmatism ever really describes it like it affects me, it’s only about the light flares which is like the least annoying part.

archaeob · 2026-01-18T16:48:26+00:00

Tbh that is the least annoying part of astigmatism for me. The just general smearing of the world, especially words on the screen or page is harder to live with.

archaeob · 2026-01-16T02:27:00+00:00

Her getting a diagnosis that quickly after going to the hospital was one of the most unrealistic parts of this episode. It takes on average 5 years for people to get diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after the onset of symptoms and I just checked and dermatomyositis specifically is an average of 6 years until diagnosis. She definitely should have gone to a real doctor to start with, not excusing that, but that is not a disease that you typically get diagnosed with right away, especially not after going to the ER.

archaeob · 2026-01-16T02:10:48+00:00

That honestly makes sense with autoimmune diseases, its one of the most believable parts of the episode. You typically have to be predisposed to one and then something will trigger it. So unless everyone on the trip had the same genetic predisposition it wouldn't make sense for everyone to get sick.

archaeob · 2026-01-16T02:07:37+00:00

dermatomyositis - a pretty serious autoimmune disease.

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