Yesterday I Got the Second Shot of the COVID-19 Vaccine; Tomorrow I’m Going Skiing
I am 64 and newly retired. I want to stay in shape and have fun. Wish me luck!
First shot
As I parked in Lot 8 at UCLA, I was a bit of a nervous wreck. That’s unusual, I am normally a very calm person. However, getting the vaccine so early was an unexpected perk from UCLA and I didn’t want to miss it for anything. So I drove there early to make sure everything would work fine.
When I try to open the Parkmobile app, my iPhone went to download it from the cloud. Weird, I thought I had downloaded it just before I left home. When it finished downloading, I clicked on it again. It started downloading one more time! I ran to the paying machine. Of course, it didn’t accept my debit card. I finally managed to pay for parking with the second credit card I tried.
The UCLA campus was a ghost town. There were no cute college girls running in shorts to make me feel guilty about my male gaze. I felt a pang of nostalgia for the bygone days, the rush and the stress of working at the bench and endlessly writing papers and grants. Maybe I’ll write another grant and open my lab again. Or maybe I’ll just stick to retirement.
