This is the blog of Kelly Jennings, science fiction writer.
For today, I'm trying really hard not to doom-scroll.
For tomorrow, I plan to stay off the internet except for work, and to track my kid as he flies back from the West Coast (where he and the boyfriend have been attending a wedding). I will read and I will grade papers and I will breathe very, very deeply. I may take a Xanax I have squirreled away for an emergency. There is also chocolate.
See you on the other side.
The internet has now been out at my house, and in a two block radius around my house, since Thursday afternoon. (Almost three days now, but who's counting?)
AT&T sends me useless updates, or lying updates, every 24 hours or so. They have no idea, currently, when I will once again have internet service.
As I said elsewhere, I am finding out what people did before the internet. A lot of reading and baking, apparently. I read an excellent book by Isaac Fellman all in one day, and two books by Naomi Novik, and I have baked apple crisp and banana muffins, and am currently making baguettes.
My kid says at least I can't doom scroll. There is that.
Once again, I have had to drive up to my miserably hot office to access the internet and grade my students' submissions.
At least it's cool enough today that I can open the window and get the temperature in here down from 74 to 70. But still, UGH.
AT&T says they have no idea when internet will be restored to my area.
The internet has been down at our house, and in a three block radius around our house, since yesterday.
This is torture.
I've had to come up to my very hot office at dawn to grade. UGH.
