[plague diaries] settling in

[kaberett]

I have been muttering for some time now, to people for whom it's relevant, that I'm not going to trust the vaccines until we've made it through a winter season with reasonable vaccination rates and seen how they hold up.

I'm trying not to let Delta leave the agoraphobia feeling too vindicated, but in combination with ZOE estimating that local vaccination rates are 51% for two doses and 58% for one dose... well.

But. This means that we actually are looking at at least another six months of This, or should be planning as though we are, and that means it's time to have a serious think about reoptimising furniture layouts for both of us working from home for a while yet, not least because a good third of the sofa has been taken over by Thesis Nest largely because I can't keep all this shit on my desk as currently set up because... that's A's office, at the moment, and "oh we can share a desk" was fine when he wasn't expecting to be using it much buuuut it's been, what, eighteen months or thereabouts since he started working from home full-time?

So.

I was going to spend some of this evening measuring things up and drawing myself sketches and maybe poking IKEA, but instead I had a migraine. But. There's something I've been contemplating this week.

Comments

[watersword]

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how I can get a Real Desk Chair into this space, because the couch is not meant for forever, but I'm not sure it's physically possible.

[chiasmata]

Yeah. The university is, I think, intending staff to start coming back in from next month. The hospital whose building my team is housed in is still shrugging its shoulders and saying maybe they’ll have us back at Christmas, which I’m glad about because that better fits my personal assessment of the risks of Returning.

[oracne]

Getting a desk at home sounds like an excellent plan.

[kaberett]

Oh, I have a desk at home! It's height-adjustable, and I've got bits for my monitors to sit on and an appropriate chair and all that -- it's just that while it can fit multiple monitor set-ups for two separate people, it doesn't leave much space over for me to stash my various stationery, which is currently as a result spread out across quite a lot of the sofa... there is definitely scope for streamlining!

[silveradept]

Having to find a place for one's home office is important, especially when there more people needing a home office than initially thought.

Also, vaccination and infection rates in our locality are the kind of things that make someone feel like optimism that people will do things that help themselves and others is foolish.