first shot down
Mar. 5th, 2021 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlYesterday I went to the Javits Center to get my first shot. (Pfizer, it turns out.) I realized, as I was waiting on line, that it was in the same space where I'd waited to get Christopher Eccleston's autograph at the last NY Comicon, which was also the last time I was at Javits. (He was lovely; it was a gift for M.)
On the one hand, since NY State has in-person college instructors in the 1B group, and since I am expected on campus to teach my Converged Learning classes -- and have to take public transit to get there -- I feel mostly relief. (NJ, where I teach, has college instructors lower down on the priority list, so my only colleagues who are getting it are 65+ -- which is pretty common among college professors, who are known for retiring around very late -- and the folks like me who commute from NY.)
On the other, I was feeling guilty as anything that my 87 year old mother still didn't have an appointment. She's not on the internet, so a couple of friends were trying to book things for her. And she is self-limited as to how far away she wants to drive these days, which cut out a lot of possible locations -- but shows admirable good sense, I think. Since I'm not actually *from* the Buffalo area, where my parents have lived since just before my junior year of college, I didn't feel overly confident that I would make the right choice for her -- I don't know the area super-well, to be honest.
This morning, I was delighted to get a text that my mom has an appointment for this coming Tuesday. It's in Rochester, which is an hour away, but a family friend is going to drive her. Not only that, but it's the Johnson & Johnson "one and done" vaccine, so she'll be fully protected before I will be -- I have my follow-up on the 25th.
So I get to have much less mixed feelings about having gotten mine. And I'll be able to see her a lot sooner than I'd feared.
I'm pretty wiped out today and decided I'd split today's work tasks between Saturday and Sunday, although I'm not sure if it was the vaccine or a bout of insomnia last night. I am sore at the injection site, as promised.
M, who is not in a group that has priority, has decided it would be better to wait and hopefully get the J&J one-shot at a neighborhood drugstore later on.
On the one hand, since NY State has in-person college instructors in the 1B group, and since I am expected on campus to teach my Converged Learning classes -- and have to take public transit to get there -- I feel mostly relief. (NJ, where I teach, has college instructors lower down on the priority list, so my only colleagues who are getting it are 65+ -- which is pretty common among college professors, who are known for retiring around very late -- and the folks like me who commute from NY.)
On the other, I was feeling guilty as anything that my 87 year old mother still didn't have an appointment. She's not on the internet, so a couple of friends were trying to book things for her. And she is self-limited as to how far away she wants to drive these days, which cut out a lot of possible locations -- but shows admirable good sense, I think. Since I'm not actually *from* the Buffalo area, where my parents have lived since just before my junior year of college, I didn't feel overly confident that I would make the right choice for her -- I don't know the area super-well, to be honest.
This morning, I was delighted to get a text that my mom has an appointment for this coming Tuesday. It's in Rochester, which is an hour away, but a family friend is going to drive her. Not only that, but it's the Johnson & Johnson "one and done" vaccine, so she'll be fully protected before I will be -- I have my follow-up on the 25th.
So I get to have much less mixed feelings about having gotten mine. And I'll be able to see her a lot sooner than I'd feared.
I'm pretty wiped out today and decided I'd split today's work tasks between Saturday and Sunday, although I'm not sure if it was the vaccine or a bout of insomnia last night. I am sore at the injection site, as promised.
M, who is not in a group that has priority, has decided it would be better to wait and hopefully get the J&J one-shot at a neighborhood drugstore later on.
