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Like everyone else I’m so over this whole lockdown thing. Here in Sydney, Australia, if you aren’t in a “hot spot” from mid Sept……drum roll….. up to 5 fully vaccinated people who live within a 5km radius of each other can now met up outside. Whoa. And, people in “hot spots” can now exercise outside wearing a mask and only with immediate household members and only within their Local Council Area and only between 5am and 9pm for more than a hour. Whoa.
I’d just like to go to the shops and buy some new trainers. I need to try them on with my orthotics. Last pair of boots I bought online, only choice with stores closed, took 3 attempts and I spent an extra $80 on shipping sending the two pairs that didn’t suit back for a refund. Annoying. Oh and shipping’s takes weeks not days. Haven’t seen our mailman all week so no deliveries (and I’m waiting on 3). sigh.
DD is also frustrated. She is 2nd year Medical Research and spends her days watching experiments and procedures over Zoom. Not quite the same. Also important and valuable internships are non existent so none of them are getting any real lab experience. On the plus side she is thriving and excelling with the distance learning. She had a bad final year of high school and barely scraped into the course. It’s an extremely competitive course as it’s the degree course “under” Medicine. So all the students who missed out on Medicine do this degree as a springboard next into Medicine as their next degree. DD intends to do a PhD.
DH is working from home, in fact he’s decided that he can do his job from home permanently. The group who he is employed with have no physical office anymore, everyone is at working from home and not having to travel into an office everyday, means work can be done no matter where home is. So we might be going to Inverell sooner .….yay.
and the bathroom is finished. Hip hip hooray.
I’d just like to go to the shops and buy some new trainers. I need to try them on with my orthotics. Last pair of boots I bought online, only choice with stores closed, took 3 attempts and I spent an extra $80 on shipping sending the two pairs that didn’t suit back for a refund. Annoying. Oh and shipping’s takes weeks not days. Haven’t seen our mailman all week so no deliveries (and I’m waiting on 3). sigh.
DD is also frustrated. She is 2nd year Medical Research and spends her days watching experiments and procedures over Zoom. Not quite the same. Also important and valuable internships are non existent so none of them are getting any real lab experience. On the plus side she is thriving and excelling with the distance learning. She had a bad final year of high school and barely scraped into the course. It’s an extremely competitive course as it’s the degree course “under” Medicine. So all the students who missed out on Medicine do this degree as a springboard next into Medicine as their next degree. DD intends to do a PhD.
DH is working from home, in fact he’s decided that he can do his job from home permanently. The group who he is employed with have no physical office anymore, everyone is at working from home and not having to travel into an office everyday, means work can be done no matter where home is. So we might be going to Inverell sooner .….yay.
and the bathroom is finished. Hip hip hooray.