Year 2- Day 132 - Back in the Office

Last week, this week, and next week - I'll only be in the office one day, and have 4 day work weeks. Also, I'm busy again - at least. I like being busy - it's when I'm not busy that I can drive myself nuts worrying about not having enough work. This fear comes from PTSD from previous jobs - where I got laid-off repeatedly due to lack of work. There were two in a row. Once, isn't a big deal, but multiple times kind of ingrains a certain terror of it happening again.
( Working life )

COVID

How COVID has changed my working life and work place in five sentences or less?
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The commute is similarly changed. But I'm not restricting myself to five sentences.
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According to the news - New York City is still considered a high risk area, and masks therefore are required indoors. Me and my little group of co-workers took this to heart. We're all vaccinated, but still wearing masks.

Delta variant is the reason why.

College buddy resurfaced after I sent her a photo from London - she's worrying about the Delta Variant as well - also fully vaccinated.

BYT told me that the vaccine gave her a bout of vertigo that lasted three days, along with severe exhaustion. She also still has a few lingering symptoms of COVID. But thankfully, not the tinnitius. Just the heart palpitations and the shortness of breath.

At least three of my co-workers are driving to work now - and avoiding the commute altogether - like many others, I suspect.

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New York has 75% of adults vaccinated with at least one dose. Which is rather ambitious. We're still trying to get the pesky 3.4 million nitwits to do it. And the 75% is annoyed - actually that may not be the right word - fed up with the 3.4 million or 25%. They were talking about it on the news this morning - about the "party poopers".

The Governor has now mandated that all health care workers must be vaccinated. If they aren't - they can't work. Not just tests, actually vaccine.
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Family

Anyone know how to get a Student Visa for Britain? My brother is having a tough time getting one for his daughter - and we're afraid she won't be able to go. The kid is wicked bright - and she's excited about this program and the classes, and kind of bored of the school she's currently in. I don't want her to lose this opportunity. I'm praying she gets to go, and it goes well.

I'm praying for a lot of things right now. I'm praying for my mother's hip replacement surgery to go well. It has to. It just has to.

Mother: If anything should happen to me - I do not want you to blame yourself or tear yourself apart.
Me: Well, it's hardly my fault - if anything happens. I have no control over your surgery. And my being there isn't going to change anything. All I'll do is make you more anxious.

I'm too much like my father - I'm not a health care provider or nurturer.
I get a deer in the headlights look in regards to hospitals. And there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can be.

Meditation does help. It provides a kind of zen mentality. I'm getting better at listening.

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Television

I tried Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe: Revelation tonight, and was rather surprised by it. I'd heard that Sarah Michelle Gellar was voicing Tela, but I thought - oh supporting character or He-Man's friend or side-kick.

But, nooo...she's the lead. There's this huge twist in the first episode and by the second, the whole series is turned completely upside down. In short, Smith does to Masters of the Universe, what they recently did with She-Rah. He subverts it.
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I was surprised by what he did with it. I didn't like the original 1980s/1990s cartoon, but this is interesting, and Gellar delivers fighting quips well.

Leaving you with a deer's rear-end.