high school reunion?

My 40th high school reunion is coming up. There's a zoom event on Friday, plus an in-person gathering in Central Park on Sunday, and another event for fully vaccinated people. A couple of weeks ago I decided the in-person parts weren't worth the round trip from Boston, and I have now taken a freelance gig that might conflict.

Two hours of Zoom, with people I haven't been in touch with*, on Friday evening? I'm going to RSVP, to get the link and put the reminder in my calendar, and then see.

* The only person from Hunter I was close to as an adult was roadnotes, who wasn't in my class (she was a year older than me). Her comments on how disappointed she was at her thirtieth reunion weren't the only reason I skipped mine, but they were a factor.

earrings

Now that I'm not wearing a mask whenever I'm outside the apartment, and also mostly using the disposable medical masks instead of reusable cloth masks that tie behind my head, I'm starting to wear earrings again.

I wear dangly earrings (rather than ear studs), which can become entangled when I remove a mask, or put it back on. Also, they're effectively hidden by the combination of the tie-behind mask and my hair, now that it hasn't been cut in fifteen months.

I don't know if other people will notice the earrings, but I think it's time for me to go back to wearing them. And unlike some other aspects of reopening after the pandemic, the worst thing that will happen if I'm wrong is tangling the earrings in my hair and/or mask, which isn't a big deal.