Cait vs. the Brain Weasels
We got an announcement today that our mandatory twice weekly covid testing will be dropping to a single weekly test over the summer, concurrent with uploading our vaxx cards to the Uni's system with an eye towards phasing out required testing for people who got their shots. This is exciting because I will be reclaiming like 45 minutes of my week back, and I don't know why that seems like a big deal but it does.
We've also been doing our "return to site" planning with the goal of everyone being onsite full-time by the time the fall semester starts. This past year I've been going in for half-days a couple times a week so I am ramping up my onsite time. One thing that has made me twitchy is lunchtime because, you know, you take your mask off to eat. So I have been carefully picking times to hastily eat lunch by myself in solitude. But given the new CDC guidance (which, huh?), uni policy is people can take their masks off *except when in instructional spaces but to be respectful of everyone's choices.
Like, the anxiety dreams of forgetting masks and such have disappeared since I got my shots, but masks are still my security blanket? That...maybe I have to wean myself off of?
But this has also been such a weird and traumatic year and I'm trying to figure out what makes me feel comfortable and safe. Emphasis on trying.
We've also been doing our "return to site" planning with the goal of everyone being onsite full-time by the time the fall semester starts. This past year I've been going in for half-days a couple times a week so I am ramping up my onsite time. One thing that has made me twitchy is lunchtime because, you know, you take your mask off to eat. So I have been carefully picking times to hastily eat lunch by myself in solitude. But given the new CDC guidance (which, huh?), uni policy is people can take their masks off *except when in instructional spaces but to be respectful of everyone's choices.
Like, the anxiety dreams of forgetting masks and such have disappeared since I got my shots, but masks are still my security blanket? That...maybe I have to wean myself off of?
But this has also been such a weird and traumatic year and I'm trying to figure out what makes me feel comfortable and safe. Emphasis on trying.