Well we are on full time work from home now until indefinitely. Great for our physical health not great for my mental health. I am allowed to continue using the work gym — a service that I pay for — and will probably up my attendance to 3x a week. I’m going to tweak my schedule in other ways, like doing my runs in the morning, to help proactively avoid some of the issues I tend to run into when full time WFH.

Issues like? Why shower, you’re not leaving the house today so why bother. Why get dressed, no one will see you today, why bother. It’s great that many people have the executive functioning and overall mental strength to continue these sorts of self care routines when no one else is there to see them, but historically, I don’t. I’d love to believe I’ve become a healthier person mentally since the last time I fell into those traps but the last time was definitely still within the past 3 years so, proactively changing my schedule to help force some of that will certainly not harm me.

Right now, my in person TX interview is still on. I hope it stays that way. I want to be my most charmingest for this, and no one is at their most charmingest when they’re talking on the phone.

Yours in resignation and while eating many chicken wings (f you, I went hard on leg day today and squatted the most I’ve ever squatted),

Refugee