Just Like a Cold in Trichotomy

Inevitable

Well, it was going to happen some time.

I performed with my amateure group two weeks ago (they were short of performers), and had dinner with a few friends afterwards. I suspect that’s when I caught it. Then on Tuesday, I woke up with a sore throat, and Wednesday tested positive for COVID. It really is just like a cold; I had a sore throat and coughs that kept me up for the remainder of the week, but by the start of this week I was almost back to normal - just a lingering cough now.

That’s a huge difference from my acquaintances who caught it before they were vaccinated - they were each out for a few weeks at least, and had a lot more severe symptoms.

La Professeure tested negative this whole time. It turns out that the chance of household transmission is only 30%.

Now I’m hoping I don’t have long covid.

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More work from home

New Hip Company has a COVID response team that would track its employees’cases or suspected cases of COVID. It can then track their contacts and control when they can come back to the office.

I didn’t go to the office for 5 days before my symptoms showed up, so its unlikely I was ever in the office as a carrier. But I reported my case anyway. The response team’s default instruction is for me not to come to the office till further notice, but I haven’t heard anything from my contact except for the request for information. This is the nice thing - I now have a reason to work from home till I get the green light from them, and I don’t know how long that will be.

I hope it’ll be for a long time.

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On Short notice

Back to the concert, I only had 3 days to prepare for the concert, so I had to pick something easy to play. I played Debbie Wiseman’s Viking River Cruises theme song Den Reisende (aside: shouldn’t it be Der Reisende, for nominative case?), which was sight-readable for me and I had played it last year. It felt slightly weird to play a commercial jingle at a concert, but I didn’t have much choice.

I hope we don’t have to do this last-minute filling-in often.

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