Bow Tie Tuesday

[fflo]

Here 'tis, BTT already.

It's a Monday on a Tuesday at my work, and my it was jumping in big-time.  Lots still to do tonight.

I just ate the rest of my pot roast.   Have a bandaid on a palm from a shower door cut---so many skin breaches in the pandemic for me, weirdly---and (cuzza bandaid/cut) don't feel like (the involved) washing (of) the soaking pot, wherein I'll be backing a mac-and-homemade-veggie-chili hot dish I made all the ingredients for yesterday (and ate a quickie version of, just stirring the chili into some macaroni noodles).  Otherwise I'd have saved the roast beef & had a brief time of leftovers of two big pots of homemade multi-ingredient nosh.

Tired now.  Could go right to sleep.  Think I can get away with just one more major work thing tonight.  Well, two, really.  But one's almost done, I think.

Contemplating seeking formal accommodation to (have the option to?) keep working from home when we're all supposed to go back at the beginning of March.  The expectation for me is 3 days a week in the office, so that I'd be setting a good example for the people in my department, who have to come in 2 days a week.  And then stay as far apart from each other as possible.  But not with everyone with masks on, at our desks.

I want to let myself feel good about taking care of myself, and that's a constant challenge for me.  It's exhausting to be continuously re-tuning the caution dial in this virus thing.  I'm the one who needs to decide for me, and that's good, but of course it involves what other people are and aren't doing & are and aren't requiring & are and aren't considering necessary, all while the next variant of concern is out there.  B2's the one you read about now, if you're feeling like reading (a.k.a. are masochistic).  We're all beyond tired of this, but there's no correlation between that and the threat level, other than the way people's being tired of it makes them/us decided Fuck it and take chances more freely.  That's understandable, but it's not a good reason for loosening up.  Neither is the much-referenced (wishful thinking) "We can't go on like this forever"/"We can't wear masks forever."

Part of my stress is a lack of faith that my employer's decisions about requirements are primarily and resoundingly based in protecting workers.  Yeah, I know--- join the club.

Comments

[maju01.livejournal.com]

S is expected to be in the office at least one day every two weeks starting soon (I don't remember when) but she is fighting it because of the same issues you mention: what other people are and aren't doing re masks, vaccination, etc., and what her employer is or is not doing re ventilation in the building.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

It's a strain, trying to figure out what to do and what not to, and how, and when.