Campus life isn't what it used to be

 I'm pretty lucky for a proffie. My school required vaccines and we've had a mask rule in place most of the time. Sadly, many folks dgaf. 

The guy in the office next to me has students in his office a lot and invites them to take off their masks. 

Other students sit around the buildings maskless, on the grounds that because a beverage is in their vicinity, they are "actively drinking" and therefore they don't have to wear one. 

Someone at home in my family has co-morbidities for COVID and it drives me around. the. bend. to see otherwise smart people who seem to have no ability at all to understand what an airborne virus means. The giant sanitizing wipes container in every classroom is not that useful when Johnny can't keep his nose in his mask and Janie has to gulp water every minute or she will dehydrate. 

So I haven't been spending more time at work than I have to. 

Then today, got a note from the dean about how faculty needed to be spending more time on campus and holding meetings and office hours in person, because we are an in-person campus. 

This on top of all of us taking many "for the team" in terms of extra work and yet still being asked to take on frequent new initiatives that admin wants made me wonder if I can retire early. Like, really early. I looked it up and the answer is no. 

But you can't fault a girl for trying.