Yikes, Epic. Change is stupid.

You may remember a year and a half ago, my chorus was supposed to have a concert in March 2020, which they only canceled because the venues shut down. Now, they plan to restart rehearsals August 16, and I thought up to a week ago that I was going to rejoin. But now cases are surging again, and they haven't said anything specific about safety measures. It's Texas, so. Guess I'm emailing and telling them I'm not rejoining yet.

2 of my dance groups are re-starting this week. I've really been looking forward to going back, but I'm just not sure about unmasked dancing (for the vaccinated), but I don't think I would do well dancing with a mask. It's a bit of a quandary.

PBS is using old newsreel segments as filler between shows and one shows people dancing in gas masks during WWII. So it CAN be done, but probably not as enjoyable (although I imagine there's a chance of dancing with someone other than the person you started off with).

askye, I've been really happy with the cloth masks from Vistaprint, of all places. They dry fast and the nose wires actually work (my daughter and I both wear them under glasses). They also sell filters that fit their masks exactly.

My regular yoga class is possibly going back into the studio on the 8th - masked, no more than 12 in the main studio, windows and doors open. I know that the owner doesn't want to shut down again, but I can't see this working after the weather turns.

My regular yoga class is possibly going back into the studio on the 8th - masked, no more than 12 in the main studio, windows and doors open. I know that the owner doesn't want to shut down again, but I can't see this working after the weather turns.

My mom is torn on what to do about her yoga classes, because she's just recently gone back to teaching in person, both in her home studio and at outside locations. She's fully vaccinated, but doesn't want her classes to be a place where the Delta variant gets transmitted, even asymptomatically. So goddamn frustrating.

I feel like (in California) I wouldn't mind so much if it were something solo-ish, like yoga. But all my dancing is partner or group, so just, by definition touching hands and standing close (while breathing hard) with multiple other people. It's been 17 or 18 months though (!!!!!!!), I think I'm gonna have to bring the mask and give it a try.

Epic I went dancing on Friday and even though everyone was vaccinated I still wore a mask. It was sweaty underneath and a little harder to breathe, but mostly fine (the bigger issue being how out of shape I am—I’d sweat less and breathe easier if I had moved my body during the pandemic!)

My mom is torn on what to do about her yoga classes, because she's just recently gone back to teaching in person, both in her home studio and at outside locations. She's fully vaccinated, but doesn't want her classes to be a place where the Delta variant gets transmitted, even asymptomatically. So goddamn frustrating.

Teppy, yeah. This is a lot of what's going through Sue's mind; most of the regular community is either older, dealing with a physical or developmental disability, or both. Her husband's a MD, they've been so careful for so long, but - how much longer can they keep paying for a building they can't use at capacity?

Also, the news from Salt Lake about the aftermath of the thunderstorms last night is breaking my heart: the parking structure at the main branch of the library flooded (two blocked floor drains AND an HVAC return duct collapsed, taking out a fire sprinkler line, so when 2nd East backed up . . . ) and there was about a foot of standing water in the lower levels, which is where the children's library is. In July of '17 the Sprague Library, near our old house, wound up with five feet of water in the basement when Parley's Creek went over its banks during a bad storm, and they just completed renovations in November of last year - the staff must have been beside themselves last night.