After a couple of weeks on early shift I was starting to lose all sense of time and reality, so I'm glad to be back on a somewhat more friendly schedule.
I've been a bit dubious about the concept of purposefully taking time off during lockdown as we've been increasingly encouraged to do. However, I took the bank holiday this Monday and I do actually feel refreshed for it? The sheer normality of a bank holiday weekend, when you have no plans? Just doing a bunch of spring cleaning, overdue paperwork sorting, walks in the sunshine, writing fic, crafting and catching up - virtually - with friends was apparently just what I needed. So now I'm actually looking forward to my week off in June which is definitely an improvement!
My lockdown hair is now long enough I can actually get it into a pony tail when I need to, which is a vast improvement on the stubby bunches I had for a couple of weeks, it still needs several hair clips but at least it stays off my face now. Also the additional length means it mostly sits fine loose again so that's one level of unnecessary stress gone, thankfully.
It looks hopeful that we might actually be able to visit people again from this weekend on? Outdoors, and only one person at a time, but nonetheless talking to people in person outwith a professional context! (My work situation is pretty fortunate for many reasons, chief among them on the mental health front is that there's a garden at work - so those of us who live alone have been able to get some outdoor time on nice days sitting in the grass 2 metres apart, chatting nonsense. Nonetheless, being able to do that with non-work people is still super exciting to me.) Perhaps there will be picnics?! If the weather holds my week off might involve outdoor coffee dates with friends? (One at a time! Two metres apart! But still, possible socialising!)
I've been a bit dubious about the concept of purposefully taking time off during lockdown as we've been increasingly encouraged to do. However, I took the bank holiday this Monday and I do actually feel refreshed for it? The sheer normality of a bank holiday weekend, when you have no plans? Just doing a bunch of spring cleaning, overdue paperwork sorting, walks in the sunshine, writing fic, crafting and catching up - virtually - with friends was apparently just what I needed. So now I'm actually looking forward to my week off in June which is definitely an improvement!
My lockdown hair is now long enough I can actually get it into a pony tail when I need to, which is a vast improvement on the stubby bunches I had for a couple of weeks, it still needs several hair clips but at least it stays off my face now. Also the additional length means it mostly sits fine loose again so that's one level of unnecessary stress gone, thankfully.
It looks hopeful that we might actually be able to visit people again from this weekend on? Outdoors, and only one person at a time, but nonetheless talking to people in person outwith a professional context! (My work situation is pretty fortunate for many reasons, chief among them on the mental health front is that there's a garden at work - so those of us who live alone have been able to get some outdoor time on nice days sitting in the grass 2 metres apart, chatting nonsense. Nonetheless, being able to do that with non-work people is still super exciting to me.) Perhaps there will be picnics?! If the weather holds my week off might involve outdoor coffee dates with friends? (One at a time! Two metres apart! But still, possible socialising!)

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Date: 29 May 2020 03:07 pm (UTC)Yeah, my annual leave starts next week and I've been told to take it. So, on the one hand, yay! On the other, one of my manager's reasons for why we should all take our summer holidays is that it might be harder to get time off later in the year, so...yikes.
It looks hopeful that we might actually be able to visit people again from this weekend on?
I'm just back from my first post lockdown meet up with two of my friends (they're one household) and while it was brilliant and cheering and all that, I cannot in good conscious recommend going on a two hour hike on one of the hottest days of the summer with two lads who have been doing nothing but getting fit for the last nine weeks while you have spent the same time living off gin and jaffa cakes.
Enjoy your week off!
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Date: 30 May 2020 11:02 am (UTC)Things are opening up here, too, and it's very strange. I have FOGO.
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Date: 31 May 2020 11:27 am (UTC)I made the mistake of going to a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon, and I both regretted my life choices and hated humanity afterwards. Too many people. D: Do not want. I think things are more open in England - all the devolved national administrations eseentially said, 'ha, ha, nope, it's not safe yet' when things started to loosen down south a couple of weeks back - but up here things loosening off looks like going to a garden centre, or socially distanced picnics by the river or in the park. I did notice a lot more people just wandering around so I think there was maybe an expectation that more things would be open now?
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Date: 31 May 2020 11:38 am (UTC)On the one hand, I hate all humanity and wish to punch it a lot in the face. And on the other, I cannot wait to get back in the pool - my knee is borked as hell, it needs hydrotherapy. It's all very complicated inside my head.
*sighs*