Post-Pennsic Meatsack Report
Aug. 16th, 2022 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeI went to Pennsic for ten days, and had a good if subdued time (in spite of my tent flooding the first afternoon). As anticipated, I didn't do a fraction of what I normally would have, a thing that was encouraged by extreme humidity for the first five days. (At least it wasn't also extremely hot, being chiefly in the mid-80s or so; we've seen far worse. But it encouraged sluggishness.) It was hard to identify the exact reasons, and more relevantly the proportions of each, for why my ass was dragging: weather? lack of sleep? being out of shape? COVID residual? general confusion and forgetting How To Pennsic? but I tried not to frell about it too much, and just meet myself where I was. One effect of the general situation was that I couldn't help with camp breakdown as much as I usually would have, and I felt bad about this, but it is inspiring me to do what I can to be in a better physical place for next year.
Today I am on my way into campus, and this has provided me with a much clearer A/B comparison: it may have been three years since I was at Pennsic, but it's only been, what, four weeks since I last commuted. And the conclusion is that I am definitely still dragging some COVID-induced negative levels. My walk to the train station is a little under a mile, and even with a loaded backpack avec laptop this is ordinarily just a pleasant ramble for me; but this morning it was actual work. So, yeah. I'm not going to be an idiot (for once) and try and push myself unduly; but I will try and make walking part of my day whether I'm going in or not, and see if I can start building this back up.
Today I am on my way into campus, and this has provided me with a much clearer A/B comparison: it may have been three years since I was at Pennsic, but it's only been, what, four weeks since I last commuted. And the conclusion is that I am definitely still dragging some COVID-induced negative levels. My walk to the train station is a little under a mile, and even with a loaded backpack avec laptop this is ordinarily just a pleasant ramble for me; but this morning it was actual work. So, yeah. I'm not going to be an idiot (for once) and try and push myself unduly; but I will try and make walking part of my day whether I'm going in or not, and see if I can start building this back up.
