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A Return to the New Normal
Jun. 13th, 2021 07:06 pmChecking in. Life, as it tends to, has continued on, and things are for the first time in a year and a half, beginning to resume pre-pandemic activities. It's been a weird month.
- Roller derby is (kinda) back - we're starting slow, no contact for the first month, with plans to gradually re-introduce contact in the following month. We're skating outdoors and wearing masks when possible, but mostly relying on the efficacy of the vaccines that have been widely available since mid-April and the fact that the case rate in CA has dropped precipitously as a result. I'm still feeling a bit like a feral cat whenever I go out, but it's been so, so good to see my friends again.
- Writing is happening - I've been making actual progress on my BB fic, hopeful that this means I'll have it finished in time for the deadline. Fingers crossed. I'm making Fraser suffer many indignities, it's fun.
- New job has been challenging. It started okay, then they asked me to do something new on a tight deadline and I had an absolutely miserable week that made me want to quit everything, and then there was this last week, which was notably better. I don't know. Hopefully it continues to get better. Keeping my eyes open for other jobs that might pop up in the meantime, because that seems like the sensible thing to do.
- Took my first concrete steps towards making a return to hockey by buying myself a new pair of ice hockey skates. I last played in high school, literally 20 years ago now, and after watching absolutely ridiculous quantities of NHL hockey over the long months of The Plague Year, I found myself feeling a pretty strong itch to go back to it. I'm tentatively planning to join a local beer league in the fall, ideally one with a schedule that meshes well with my roller derby commitments, provided I can assemble all the gear I need by then, and the job situation is stable enough to support the cost. I'm sort of hoping the decade+ of roller derby will translate into decent skating skills that will compensate for how absolutely terrible I'm going to be at puck handling at first.
- Roller derby is (kinda) back - we're starting slow, no contact for the first month, with plans to gradually re-introduce contact in the following month. We're skating outdoors and wearing masks when possible, but mostly relying on the efficacy of the vaccines that have been widely available since mid-April and the fact that the case rate in CA has dropped precipitously as a result. I'm still feeling a bit like a feral cat whenever I go out, but it's been so, so good to see my friends again.
- Writing is happening - I've been making actual progress on my BB fic, hopeful that this means I'll have it finished in time for the deadline. Fingers crossed. I'm making Fraser suffer many indignities, it's fun.
- New job has been challenging. It started okay, then they asked me to do something new on a tight deadline and I had an absolutely miserable week that made me want to quit everything, and then there was this last week, which was notably better. I don't know. Hopefully it continues to get better. Keeping my eyes open for other jobs that might pop up in the meantime, because that seems like the sensible thing to do.
- Took my first concrete steps towards making a return to hockey by buying myself a new pair of ice hockey skates. I last played in high school, literally 20 years ago now, and after watching absolutely ridiculous quantities of NHL hockey over the long months of The Plague Year, I found myself feeling a pretty strong itch to go back to it. I'm tentatively planning to join a local beer league in the fall, ideally one with a schedule that meshes well with my roller derby commitments, provided I can assemble all the gear I need by then, and the job situation is stable enough to support the cost. I'm sort of hoping the decade+ of roller derby will translate into decent skating skills that will compensate for how absolutely terrible I'm going to be at puck handling at first.
