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Vac[cin]ation
Jun. 12th, 2021 12:45 pmLast weekend, I went back to Cleveland for the wedding of my friends Markos and Michelle. Was a very happy occasion, they're clearly a great match.
This was also my first time seeing my parents and brother in person in well over a year. Plus was my first experience with pandemic travel, and traveling alone is always a bit surreal these days. (Very grateful to Julie for holding down the fort.) Felt pretty out of place at the wedding for playing things very safe COVID-wise in circumstances where that probably didn't matter (both in terms of the overall risk probably being low given my vaccination and reduced overall prevalence, and the fact that wearing a mask some of the time at an indoor event with food and whatnot is probably not much of a mitigation when everyone else is clearly done with that). The numbers, the are getting good in Cleveland, and even better in the Boston area. Anyways, it was my first weekend that was really relaxing in over a year, which is kind of alarming.
In another week, my parents and brother will be visiting our area for a low-key family vacation. So that should be good.
I've been feeling more burned out at work and putting more effort into steering my career. My overall ability to learn and focus, while okay, is not currently great. It's hard to say how much of this is gradually increasing burnout continuing to gradually increase and how much is the pandemic grind. It's a stressful year. But I have been on my current team/project a long time. I get the same feeling about parenting. The new normal will be very different, but some of that will just be a five-year-old is very different from a four-year-old, and it will be hard to tell which is which.
This was also my first time seeing my parents and brother in person in well over a year. Plus was my first experience with pandemic travel, and traveling alone is always a bit surreal these days. (Very grateful to Julie for holding down the fort.) Felt pretty out of place at the wedding for playing things very safe COVID-wise in circumstances where that probably didn't matter (both in terms of the overall risk probably being low given my vaccination and reduced overall prevalence, and the fact that wearing a mask some of the time at an indoor event with food and whatnot is probably not much of a mitigation when everyone else is clearly done with that). The numbers, the are getting good in Cleveland, and even better in the Boston area. Anyways, it was my first weekend that was really relaxing in over a year, which is kind of alarming.
In another week, my parents and brother will be visiting our area for a low-key family vacation. So that should be good.
I've been feeling more burned out at work and putting more effort into steering my career. My overall ability to learn and focus, while okay, is not currently great. It's hard to say how much of this is gradually increasing burnout continuing to gradually increase and how much is the pandemic grind. It's a stressful year. But I have been on my current team/project a long time. I get the same feeling about parenting. The new normal will be very different, but some of that will just be a five-year-old is very different from a four-year-old, and it will be hard to tell which is which.
