My church opened for walk-in services (previously, it was streaming/online or with a reservation). It's been over a year. Distancing, all kinds of cautions, hand sanitizer before communion (wine in little paper cups that will be burned), but still ... PEOPLE! elbow bumps all around! it was nice ... I put on real makeup and nice clothes. yay!

And the mother of House Moderna is Dolly Parton, in case you forgot.

That's fantastic, Toddson!

That sounds lovely, Todd.

Heading back to my coast today some time. I went to my sister's last Tuesday so I am ready for my own bed. My sister flies out of West Palm Beach Thursday so we'll have some time to play. Thinking of heading down to Miami tomorrow and grabbing some fish tacos. Bit of big city exposure for the mountain girl.

Toddson, I am very happy for you.

Laura, have some fish tacos for me?

"My" yoga studio has said they will not be reopening for in-person classes until we are out of Phase 3, i.e. we don't need masks indoors for group activities. Soooo next year, at the rate Kitsap County's going?

To my great amusement, "Mobile Reefer Service" does not offer home delivery of pot, but 24/7 roadsite repair of refrigerated trucks.

Well, if they want to diversify they'd be even more amusing

awww ... Operation Mallard ... a success

Mmm, fish tacos.

I was influenced by a friend yesterday who posted about mangonadas and I decided I needed to go. Luckily a different friend lives nearby and was willing to meet me and hang out for a bit, so it was delicious AND good times.

Not great—one of my teeth is hurting and I fear when I go to the dentist he will say I need to have a filling or a root canal or something. Boo, stupid teeth grinding!

Boo, stupid teeth grinding!

Dental -ma!

Also, I hear Oregon's got a Covid surge going. So boo to that too.

Matilda's summer job doesn't start until July, so she'll have plenty of time to recover from her June 11th wisdom teeth. Once she starts working she'll be doing 4 hours a day / 20 hours a week all the way up to the beginning of the school year, August 16th. And they better fucking have it in person or I shall lose my mind.

I'm already super grumpy that JZ's job, which had originally committed to WFH to June (starting last March), is now extending to October. I fucking hate the Dean and I hate SFUSD.

In better new, JZ's brother Lukas, and his husband TJ are both out and visiting. They're both fully vaxxed and flew out from NYC. (Lukas couldn't come out initially because his immune system is compromised with his chemo treatments - which have proven completely successful, btw!)

As soon as Matilda gets out of school I'll be driving her over to meet with them, and go JZ's dad's gravesite.

I get my second jab tomorrow. Excited! Though it really won't change my activities that much.

Sounds like the should have the teens (12+) available to be vaccinated within the next few weeks. That would be amazing to have them all done before August.

My job today involves explaining to an author why (the fuck) we cannot use the term "Coloreds" as a racial category. They were specifically discussing South Africa, and used the term "South African Coloreds" as a catch-all term for mixed-race people. And I was like, in the year of our Lord Black Jesus 2021, how have you NOT heard of the term "mixed-race" what the fuck is wrong with you????

Literally never thought that was a thing that would come up in medical editing. (For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race." THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A TRUMP????)