I think the situation is wearing on everyone, eroding work practices. We have a staff Zoom call every two weeks and the last one was focused on how people were working - reminders of our core hours (citing staff not responding to requests/messages until 11:00 at night), wearing respectable clothing for calls with members, what was in the background during such calls and so on. There's an "official" background for calls that uses our color and logo (on my one attempt, I had a wall of books, which I think is respectable enough). We've lost people - one job eliminated, two people fired ... for cause, I think. I find it easier to stay on track coming in to the office and want to keep doing so. (Excitingly, I've had FOUR co-workers in the office this week - three on Monday, one yesterday!)
In my news, my vaccine injection site is very painful ... I rolled over on it during the night and came awake from the pain. I was warned that the side effects might be worse after the second shot.
My phone cable arrived in Vacaville (15-20 minutes from me) late last night and got to West Sacramento (45 min-1 hr from me) this morning. So that's efficient.
My analyst is AWOL for our Zoom therapy session today. It’s causing me a great deal of anxiety.
EDIT: And posting here made him call me!
Has she arrived? I hope you can let the anxiety go.
Vaccine dose #1 all done!
In lighter news, the Minnesota DOT had an online poll/contest to name their snowplows. Somehow, the #1 choice was not a surprise.
Absolutely, msbelle. Do you want them to be true or should we make up wacky stuff?
Smonster, I think you have the most I've seen.
I am proud to carry on the legacy of “Six Degrees of Grandma Lilla,” my paternal grandmother.
Oh! Also meant to say that I’m glad people are appreciating the playlist I made… I’m planning to keep it a living document and add songs that make me think of her and/or wish I could play for her. I like to think they have Spotify in The Good Place.
Y’all, I cannot get going today. I had to take Frankie to the vet yesterday (kidneys are fine, little jerk ate something destructive apparently) and I was fine yesterday but I have an emotional hangover today.
Glad he called, Scola!
Yay, Jess!
All those snowplow names are terrific! Um, I only looked at the top 8, but they are gold
Wednesday my therapist tried to call me 15 minutes into the meeting that I'd had to cancel our session in favor of. And his phone blocks his cell #, so I can't call back and don't know if he was unaware of the schedule conflict and just running really late, or if he picked that time to call about rescheduling for some insane reason. Oh well, if I don't hear from him by Monday afternoon I'll call the administrative office again about rescheduling.
I miss having an effective therapist who was organized.
There seem to be numbers of people who won't wear a mask because they're not afraid of a virus ... but for some reason feel it necessary to go out armed. Which has its own problems.
