Tired (didn’t get to sleep until some time after the sun rose), depressed, and getting absolutely nowhere in any regard. These iron infusions really don’t seem to be doing me any good at all, not any closer to answers there, and all the anemia stuff is putting everything else on hold. Plus quarantine and the effects thereof mean I can’t even think about possibly trying to get a job until it’s all over, and probably very, very well afterward, because there will be a large influx of people who lost their jobs because of it and will be looking for new jobs, and most, if not all, of them would be more appealing candidates than me, so I shouldn’t bother even considering it as a possibility until well after all the hubbub’s died down. Don’t know if I’ll ever even be in a position where I can consider it anyway. I suspect the rest of my life will be about the same as my life has been since college - just being a lazy layabout still living with and almost completely dependent on my parents and not actually doing much besides existing.
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"