Dream job

I dreamt about getting COVID-19 tests last night… dream me was trying to time the testing so that the period of isolation between test and result I gather you're supposed to do was minimally disruptive. In the dream I wasn't infected but the antibody result was effectively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: 50% chance of antibodies (and the report was in hard cover?!). I also dreamt about panicking briefly after waking from a dream about forgetting I was enrolled in school, and then dream me was happy it was just a dream in a dream and a bit exasperated I was still having those dreams. Um: thanks, brain.

In real life I finished my secondment today with meetings, planning work beyond my being there, knowledge transfer and even a bit of hacking graph theory. I got a nice send-off in the morning huddle and nice messages throughout the day, and saw a few things come together — some due to my work and some thanks to others and nice to witness. Monday I pick up my StatCan gear in distanced fashion and get to work at my substantive job. For a while it looked like I was going to have to wait a while for my gear but I got moved up the list, probably when someone realized this wasn't just an external screen or an office chair but my entire setup that would let me connect to the work network. It's going to feel like a fresh start, coming back in remote mode after six months away. I'll miss my team from secondment but I hope this will be a good second half of the year.