Week 75

I feel a bit flattened by the week. Not least the heartbreaking and horrifying news from Afghanistan and Haiti. Hard things happening in the lives of colleagues and friends and neighbors. Zoom meetings for the majority of every work day this week. Negotiating and renegotiating boundaries and feeling like I’m disappointing people.  

I’m trying to practice grace and renegotiating deadlines, mostly with myself. I’m celebrating the colleagues whose babies were born this week. I’m grateful for support from connecting with friends recently. With my public health hat on, I'm grateful UCSF has extended work-from-home until March of 2022, in recognition of how Delta has changed things, even if SF is currently trending in positive directions.

Theo’s daycare is closed next week, and we are driving to my in-laws in Boise for a week of vacation. Between heat and smoke we are keeping plans flexible, although we are aspiring to a few nights of adults-only backpacking. If all we do is sit on the couch and read books it will nevertheless be a wild success.