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Title: Back to reality this week.
Date: 2022-02-28
Device: Laptop
Mood: Not sure.
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This week feels like a return to normality. Not
for any domestic reason, more my upcoming
schedule.
Today has been a pretty normal day (with the
exception that the kid was sick, so not at school,
but it was nice to have him hanging out all day,
even if we did just watch cartoons while I worked
on the couch).
Tomorrow, though, is my first 'real' trip to
London since the pandemic; by 'real', I mean back
to all the old business-travel tropes, and the old
haunts. Train to London, Euston, tube (and, on
Thursday, tube strikes, which is excellent news),
hotel, and dinner at the club with JB, SC, AHM,
and others who I know less well. I'm hoping that I
can convince JB to let me reapply for membership,
as having access to a good club can really make
these trips more bearable.
I'm aware how ridiculously priviliged some of this
sounds, but I guess I've spun that very British
combination of money, luck, class, and accent to
allow me to access these things. I shouldn't have
theurge to *explain* myself on my own journal, but
I do feel slightly uneasy talking about these
things.
It'll be nice to not have to deal with technology
for a few days. I've been struggling with
endless-seeming boring paperwork exercises
recently (recertification, so it's not even
intellectually stimulating), but again I guess
this is back-to-reality. Not all work is fun.
