Dream job

[metawidget]

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.

Comments

[blogcutter]

I hope your return to your substantive job goes well - are there new people there who've arrived while you were on secondment? Office life has certainly been transformed for many folks over the past few months.

As far as dreams go, I too get recurrent dreams about forgetting I'm enrolled in a course. Sometimes it's a case of I've missed several classes (for whatever reason) and am trying to plan how to catch up but don't know what room the class is in (or what day or time slot) and also don't know where I can find that out! Seems to be one of those semi-universal anxiety dreams a lot of people have.

[metawidget]

We have a new person in the section but nobody in my unit… and going by your experience my forgotten-school dreams will be with me for some time ;)

I suspect I'll spend some time getting up to speed and also some time getting technology working for me, but I'm hopeful my reintegration will go well. I hope all the disruption will make adopting new good habits easier!