wfh
on monday morning my boss texted me and said they're doing major construction outside the office building, so he's wfh and i'm welcome to if i want. so i did.
on tuesday, the office manager texted me and said they're still doing the construction so i can continue to wfh if i want. so i did.
now it's wednesday and i always wfh on these days because i have telehealth therapy at 2pm every wed.
so it's been 5 days (incl. the weekend) of not-going-to-the-office and 3 days in a row of wfh and it's an interesting trial period b/c i've also been wondering if i should ask to wfh more than once a week again, because next month i'm supposed to start taking immunosuppressant drugs for my arthritis and i am afraid of getting sick -- i mean, i'm afraid of getting covid again and getting long covid even worse.
and the thing is that on wednesdays i usually don't get anything done. i consider wednesday to be my do-nothing day, i just lie on my production log and spend most of the day reading fic. and i think that's ok, because i'm trying hard the other 4 days of the week when i'm in the office.
but if most of the week -- or even all of it -- is wfh, then obviously i need to figure out how to be productive at home. so yesterday i filled out my google calendar, because usually i rely on the case management software calendar (very bad and horrible to use) and a whiteboard calendar i keep updated on my desk, but when i'm at home that's obviously not very workable.
and i switched out my chairs. i got a new weird ADHD chair and though i love it in concept, it hurts my ass because the posture it forces requires me to put all my weight on my sit bones. and that helped too.
i suppose i can figure out ways to be more productive at home, but that doesn't solve the main issue of wfh full time which is that i'll be so incredibly isolated.
i have one friend, L, who I see once every 2 weeks or less often if we reschedule, to have movie night. i occasionally hang out over the phone with my friend P who lives on the other side of the country. KN & KH are trying to rekindle a friendship with me but they have a child and a nice middle class family lifestyle that i don't think i fit in anymore, to say nothing of the fact that KN completely and irrevocably firebombed my ability to trust & confide in her when she reacted so poorly about me becoming covid cautious.
i spend nearly all of my time in my apartment, except for when i go to work, and then i avoid speaking to people as much as possible b/c making work-appropriate smalltalk with so many people, day in and day out, makes me want to tear my hair out & i already have my hands full & my brain overflowing trying to fucking deal with the avalanche of cases that they keep assigning us.
also i get most of my exercise at work by taking little walks around the building when i'm on break. i would NEED to find a way to replace that if i were at home.