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Plague 2020 #7
Jul. 23rd, 2020 03:57 pmLess than a month since my last post! Go me! I am back at work full time now and finding it tough. In fact, I left at noon today, decided to take a few hours sick leave just to have some time alone in the house with nothing to do. E will be late today and I just needed to be alone. Which is actually kind of ridiculous since I'm alone in my office most of the day, but you know. I need some downtime to myself. And I'm fortunate enough to be able to take it.
At work we are hiring a new person to do my job. This will make the 8th fulltime person on our team. I'm part of the hiring committee and next week we interview 6 people. We've set up a large conference room with half a dozen separate desks, and everyone will be masked. So that should be fun, and by fun I mostly mean exhausting.
The following week we are going on vacation to the Arbuckle "Mountains." I put mountains in quotation marks because they are ancient, tiny things. We've driven through them (they're about half way to Dallas from where we live) multiple times, but never really spent any time there. So I found us a little cabin on 6 acres near the town of Sulphur. We will go to some touristy spots, but hope that in the middle of the week there will not be large crowds. We'll bring face masks, but we will probably be the only people who wear them in the middle of rural Oklahoma. We'll probably bring most of our food so we don't have to go to local shops. Maybe we'll get take out one or two nights, but certainly we won't be eating in any restaurants, which is too bad, because half the reason to take a vacation is so that I don't have to cook every damn night.
Eating out is what I miss most. We used to eat out most Friday evenings and every Saturday morning. Occasionally a second night during the week. But I cooked every damn dinner otherwise, and I really looked forward to a night off a week. Oh well. I'm fully aware how fortunate we are and how good we have it compared to so many, but I still miss eating out.
At work we are hiring a new person to do my job. This will make the 8th fulltime person on our team. I'm part of the hiring committee and next week we interview 6 people. We've set up a large conference room with half a dozen separate desks, and everyone will be masked. So that should be fun, and by fun I mostly mean exhausting.
The following week we are going on vacation to the Arbuckle "Mountains." I put mountains in quotation marks because they are ancient, tiny things. We've driven through them (they're about half way to Dallas from where we live) multiple times, but never really spent any time there. So I found us a little cabin on 6 acres near the town of Sulphur. We will go to some touristy spots, but hope that in the middle of the week there will not be large crowds. We'll bring face masks, but we will probably be the only people who wear them in the middle of rural Oklahoma. We'll probably bring most of our food so we don't have to go to local shops. Maybe we'll get take out one or two nights, but certainly we won't be eating in any restaurants, which is too bad, because half the reason to take a vacation is so that I don't have to cook every damn night.
Eating out is what I miss most. We used to eat out most Friday evenings and every Saturday morning. Occasionally a second night during the week. But I cooked every damn dinner otherwise, and I really looked forward to a night off a week. Oh well. I'm fully aware how fortunate we are and how good we have it compared to so many, but I still miss eating out.
