Today the CDC considers me fully vaccinated, and I got a negative result back from my last PCR test and don't plan to get any more. Congratulations to me. I'm having the longest period in the world (surprise, the endometrium is part of the immune system!) but aside from that, all is well. I've changed my icon to "squirrel peeking out through a fence" because I guess I can go out but am not sure how life works now, and it seems like a good time to stop reflecting my state's one-dose vaccination stats in my subject lines too (though I'm still watching them).
As for actual policies: the bug and I are going to stop controlling each other so closely, with a lot more activities being "use your best judgement" -- including basically anything with fully-vaccinated people. That's a huge relief. I think we could both use some independence back. The only things we're definitely not doing yet are the gym, indoor dining, movie theaters, public transit. We'll keep watching the case counts... which are plummeting, along with Rt, for both state and county, and therefore fun to watch.
In the meantime, taking stock. Taking notes on what I want back and what I don't. Trying to figure out how many friends I actually lost in all that mess -- for inner-circle friends the answer is either 2 or 3, for ambient electron-cloud friends it's very hard to say. I think we're going to see a lot of people not coming back to all the same hobbies and places they used to.
I'm doing some acro with the Monk next weekend to see where that all stands.
I brought Helios into my house to look around and meet the cats and snuggle briefly on all the surfaces, and that was amazing.
Norwood has his first post-covid first date on Wednesday and is going to have a whole lot more, which I'm mostly feeling prepared for after a year of feeling bad that he couldn't date. And soon we're going to go back to weekly shorter dates instead of the biweekly longer ones. (Being allowed to get hotel rooms means we'll actually be able to have dates near me sometimes rather than always driving to his state, which will be easier on me. Although, strangely, I really enjoyed the drives both down and up this weekend -- I was wide awake, the roads were nice, the sun was out.)
Maybe to nobody's surprise, I'm not focusing on work very well right now. Meh. Work. Something will happen.
As for actual policies: the bug and I are going to stop controlling each other so closely, with a lot more activities being "use your best judgement" -- including basically anything with fully-vaccinated people. That's a huge relief. I think we could both use some independence back. The only things we're definitely not doing yet are the gym, indoor dining, movie theaters, public transit. We'll keep watching the case counts... which are plummeting, along with Rt, for both state and county, and therefore fun to watch.
In the meantime, taking stock. Taking notes on what I want back and what I don't. Trying to figure out how many friends I actually lost in all that mess -- for inner-circle friends the answer is either 2 or 3, for ambient electron-cloud friends it's very hard to say. I think we're going to see a lot of people not coming back to all the same hobbies and places they used to.
I'm doing some acro with the Monk next weekend to see where that all stands.
I brought Helios into my house to look around and meet the cats and snuggle briefly on all the surfaces, and that was amazing.
Norwood has his first post-covid first date on Wednesday and is going to have a whole lot more, which I'm mostly feeling prepared for after a year of feeling bad that he couldn't date. And soon we're going to go back to weekly shorter dates instead of the biweekly longer ones. (Being allowed to get hotel rooms means we'll actually be able to have dates near me sometimes rather than always driving to his state, which will be easier on me. Although, strangely, I really enjoyed the drives both down and up this weekend -- I was wide awake, the roads were nice, the sun was out.)
Maybe to nobody's surprise, I'm not focusing on work very well right now. Meh. Work. Something will happen.