Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
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Day 177: Back at the hospital again, but for entirely mundane reasons: time for my annual physical. I continue to be medically unremarkable. Everything looks good, all tests in normal range, nothing to report, you’re healthy, go home, come back in a year. Sounds good to me! Also, today’s pre-Halloween week work shirt: big cute (and sometimes beribboned or beflowered) skulls.
Day 176: Work shirt number two for pre-Halloween week – skulls and crossbones.
Day 175: Work shirt number one (not counting yesterday, since I worked from home and wore a t-shirt) for pre-Halloween week – dancing skeletons.
Day 174: Throughout the unpleasant adventures of the past few years, we’ve been very good about ordering our free COVID-19 home tests. We’ve also been good about avoiding risky situations, and so have so rarely felt ill that we’ve not used very many of them. So today, even after double-checking against the FDA’s list of updated expiration dates, I pulled out a pile of test kits that have expired. Glad we had them, glad we didn’t need (many of) them, and glad that we still have some that are good just in case we do need to test.
Day 173: Trying another one of the treats we brought back from England. We actually got two flavors; orange for me and mint for my wife. The orange was a nice strong orange flavor that we both liked. The mint was also very strong (“imagine an Altoid wrapped in dark chocolate”), which my wife liked but I didn’t even bother trying (I don’t like mint).
Day 172: We went by IKEA this morning, and discovered that there’s currently a space theme in the kid’s sections, with lots of cute goodies. All we came home with was one of the little green aliens (visible at the top right of the photo), but I thought some of my friends might be interested.
We were disappointed to discover that since the last time we were at IKEA, they’ve joined the realm of stores that are almost entirely self-checkout. That’s going to reduce how likely we are to shop there in person.
Day 171: Almost two years in, and today’s all-staff training/community development event was the first time I set foot in the school’s gym. Partly this is because I have very little interest in most sports stuff. Partly it’s because last year sometime in a presentation about plans for upcoming capital projects (big expensive things like new buildings), the need for a new gym space was stressed in part because this building is in such poor shape it could spontaneously collapse at any moment. That’s paraphrased, and probably wasn’t put quite so starkly, but I wasn’t the only person who came away from that presentation with that impression, so it was darkly amusing that this was the chosen location to gather all of the college’s staff for this event.
Day 170: Generally I try to be fairly straightforward, but sometimes you just have to give your spouse a pretty obvious Hint.
Day 169: McDonalds for dinner tonight, and saw that they had two new (limited time only) flavors of dipping sauce for their McNuggets, so of course we had to try them. “Sweet and Spicy Jam” was just what it said, and the mysterious “Mambo” was a little less sweet and notably spicier, with a pretty strong kick. Both were actually pretty tasty, but the Sweet and Spicy Jam was our preference.
Day 168: Two big projects, one for work (a presentation to faculty) and one volunteer (a website launch), both due on Friday. I pretty much feel like I don’t stop moving; a full day at work, and then puttering on my computer after dinner and until bed in the evening. I know a few of my friends involved with the same volunteer project are in much the same boat. Going to be glad to hit the weekend!