I survived the first week back at work!

• I regret to inform you that I've become a person who voluntarily gets up at 5:45 in the morning so that I can be on the tram at a time where it's maybe me and six other people. This is who I am now. Sorry to destroy any illusions you had about me in this way. Not found a way to get home that's equally quiet unless I decide to walk, but I've not hit that anxiety spike yet, so! Waiting for my brain to get accustomed to it and my panic levels to get to a lower level.


• It's really nice being back at work and seeing people! I like that! My coworkers are cool and I'm slowly relearning how to talk to people who don't live with me! And the library is a lot quieter than it usually is, which both makes sense and is uncanny. It doesn't help that they've taken out the bits of my job that I like the best, though. Ideally there's not supposed to be much chatting to customers, shelving books during office hours, or processing and desk work. And I'm fine with less desk work because now I don't need to feel guilty that I'm writing reviews (... or dreamwidth posts...) on the clock or whatever, but. It feels weird to be essentially traffic control for 90% of my shift! And like, it's not a problem? Really? But it definitely feels odd.


• (Me and one of my coworkers have a very gallows humour not-a-joke going about how if our households get covid, it's going to be because we (as in me and her) were exposed at work. Super great!)


• We have officially hit the point where seeing my coworkers without their masks on feels INCREDIBLY scandalous.


• There have been 400-450 documented covid cases on campus. That's proportionally not a massive number I know (the uni has about 35k students between all of the UK campuses), but if anyone knows how to convince my anxiety of that I am ALL EARS. Especially because the student accommodation is being put on lockdown with very little warning, and that's terrifying.


• There's covid testing on campus, and I think someone labelled the testing site as "[Building] Carpark" which everyone reads as "carpark next to [building]" and while that's logical, nope! Incorrect! This is why we have 5-10 people an hour asking us where the testing is!


• Also the building flooded again. The plant room has had a secret leak for... A year, maybe? And no one has found what's causing it, so the office of the manager of my manager's manager keeps getting water-damaged. Whoops.


• So... Yeah! I'm fine, I'm about as anxious as expected and immensely grateful for every single hour of my shift that involves little-to-no human interaction. \o/