One year ago today I started “working” from home. By a weird coincidence, tomorrow I get the first dose of the vaccine. What a year it has been. If I’d have known it would last this long I would not have written the six month review (see here). Then again, I don’t think anyone thought it would last this long. But I guess the end is in sight, what with the vaccines and all. Word on the street is we’ll be back at work on June 1st. But I do not want to go back to all that negativity and backstabbing, so after I am fully vaccinated, I am not going to volunteer that information. If I am asked by my boss I will, but any other co-worker who inquires can go fuck themselves. Sorry, didn’t mean to sound so combative, that’s how much I am dreading returning to the office.
The second six months have been a little different from the first,
however. I added a second snack cake choice to the breakfast menu:
And I lost about half the weight I gained the first six months.
But I am still not showering
as often and in fact broke another length of time without a shower record (seven
days!). And I not slept a full night in my bed this entire year (I‘ve just
stayed on the couch) and I have not eaten yogurt (I do not particularly enjoy
either the taste or texture of yogurt but it makes for a cheap and convenient breakfast
that I can eat at my desk. And seeing as I wasn’t at my desk, no yogurt for me
this year!) and I have not gotten my hair cut (well, actually, there was one unfortunate
incident involving my bangs and a couple glasses of wine, causing me to be
guilty of a TUI – Trimming Under the Influence!).
I know that was a weirdly
random (randomly weird?) list and all very trivial, thereby proving that not much
has changed in the year of lockdown. See, I knew one day I would find the
silver lining in my miserable, lonely, boring life – a worldwide lockdown didn’t
affect me one bit! Well, that is not entirely true – I now own more rolls of toilet
paper than I ever have before:
