Timelies all!

Today ended up being more interesting than expected. I got Mr. S dressed and ready to go in front of his Chromebook, but only got the "the host will let you in shortly" message for all of his first class, and into the second. Then I checked my e-mail to find out that the school's internet and phone lines were out because of a Comcast outage. Mr. S ended up watching random stuff on YouTube for a while. Eventually there was a second e-mail saying that they were sending the teachers home to use their internet there, and that classes would start at 11:25 am. So he got a few classes in, but ended up watching more YouTube than he really ought to.

I routinely see Jessica’s grandparents’ grave on walks around my neighborhood (it is visible from the sidewalk) and always think of them and her fondly.

Oh, my heart. I was just thinking of Granny earlier today.

Come to find out, my mayor has shingles right now! And it sounds terrible, in his eyes and ears both. He just had bad Lyme disease not that long ago, too. Yikes.

Yikes, def don't want shingles. Jealous of the people younger than me who never had chickenpox, won't get shingles, and had the HPV vaccine too!

I still have never finished my Hep B shots, or whichever hepatitis it is that was 3 shots. I think Hep C was the gamma globulin golfball in the buttcheek; that was fun. In short: single shot yes please.

I think yeah Hep B. Hep A is two shots, and I think mine were separated by about 8 years because oops. And my yellow fever has now expired. But I did manage to update my tetanus/pertussis/diphtheria one while getting my flu shot in October! Whew.

Damn it, we let one get away!

Mwah ha ha!

I got my 2nd Hep A shot about 6 months after the first. I should look into the shingles vax.

I can't remember *why* my doctor said getting the shingles vaccine wasn't a pressing concern, but I came away understanding it was something he thought I should do around 60 rather than 50.

Got my first shingles vaccine and it was miserable. Sore for a week. Literally.

Second one is coming up and I’ll be happy to get it over with.

It beats the hell out of shingles.

I have a list of post-50 medical things I’ve been putting off that I’ll be scheduling after I get the COVID vaccine. I should probably make sure the shingles vaccine is part of it.

I do wonder what the world is going to look like after COVID. Will entire swathes of industries keep working from home? What will that mean for industries that support commuters, like business-adjacent restaurants? Will conferences and other business travel remain virtual, with the knock on effects on the travel industry? Will retail workers get more respect and maybe some decent benefits? Will the US end up (finally!) reworking its approach to health care? Will we ever get those hundreds of thousand of jobs back? Will long COVID change the way we cope, as a society, with chronic illness? Will I remember how to sit in a business skirt? How badly will Zoom’s stock price dip? What happened to the bag of almonds I left in my office drawer? Has it achieved sentience and taken over the whole floor of the building?

I have questions.

I had a new version of the college anxiety dream. This time, it was the morning of graduation, and we have all been gathered into pods of ten to do various tasks all around campus. In one station, I spilled a whole bunch of water, and while ai was trying to find towels to clean it up, I lost my pod! So I was running around, trying to find my pod, I ran into another pod, and tried to get the leader to help. He just kept saying that there were no leaders, he was just an ambassador?? We did run into my pod, and they took us to the library. There was much whispering and conferring among the ambassadors, and they finally announced that we would need to re-take the SAT right then, before we graduated, because we had all taken the wrong one! But they were super disorganized and there were no test booklets and we were also not very distanced, both for cheating and COVID purposes. And no one could explain to me why or if it would affect my GPA.

You guys are making me want to make some "skyline" for dinner soon. I need to figure out which recipe apes it best...