Is it over yet?

I went to happy hour with a few people from the team last night. Naturally the convo started gravitating towards COVID and how we were all sick of having an emptier office and abandoned downtown. My teammate mentioned that it feels like a ghost town and there’s just no energy in the city. It’s hard to disagree.

I’m trying not to get my hopes up as I had thought the vaccine would’ve ended COVID for all of us in 2021. The optimistic side of me sees the numbers and data and realizes that we may actually hit herd immunity after omicron is done.

I sure as hell hope so. I miss a crowded office. I miss a crowded after-work happy hour. It’s just a different energy when everyone is here. It mays the work environment more fun and when I have more fun, I do better work.

I’ll be headed out to New York for a week at the end of the month to meet some new team members and do some training. I’m hoping some of that New York energy starts to pick up back in San Francisco when I get back.