One of our higher-ups has asked the department to start coming in on Wednesdays. The first one was this week, he left at lunch.
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It does seem that if you’re all required to spend part of the week working in an office then those days should be common to all…
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But then you get more cross-infection and use more space, which sits unused for the rest of the time.
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We don’t have enough desks for everyone 
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We also don’t have enough parking spaces for everyone.
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But the UK government has determined COVID ends in March
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Comment on U.K.Government
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I spent the last 4 days working through a migraine, while wearing an eye patch! It helped with the vertigo quite a bit, which surprised both me and my doctor, who had a very “Welp, might as well try this!” attitude about it. We can’t find substitute teachers, so if I stay home, my classes get dumped into a cafeteria with all the other classes that are missing a teacher, and I have to figure out how to cram everything in when I get back.
The headache seems to have unclenched itself overnight, and the weather has turned around a bit, so I’m looking forward (with both eyes) to the weekend, which starts with my youngest getting Shot #1 as a birthday present.
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Couple weeks ago, I had the worst migraine I’ve had for a couple years. Fortunately my emergency meds kept it to only a day and that was a Sunday so no missed classes, but the pain and nausea had me in bed or actively sick that entire day. I’ll have to keep the eye patch idea in mind.
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I get gnarly ocular migraines, which I usually treat with a warm compress over my eyes (a sock full of dry black beans heated in the microwave and plopped on my face).
My doctor thought a compression eye patch might work well enough to keep me functional. It didn’t cure anything, but did make it so I could walk around without constantly clutching onto a handhold. I got a fancy prescribed one, but there are OTC patches designed for stye relief that he also recommended.
I’ve only had visual effects with my migraines a couple times but they are always centered on one eye in terms of the pain so maybe a possibility or might be different enough it won’t help. Definitely something to keep in mind. I tend to prefer a cold compress pressed into that eye.
I’ve always been baffled by headache categorizations. It hurts a little, but I’m nauseous. Is that a migraine? Hurts a crapton but I can still eat… what’s that one?
For me it’s just “THE headache.”
All I know is I have an ocular nerve issue (soccer injury), sciatic nerve issue (same soccer injury compounded with a second soccer injury), and sinus issues (allergies plus first soccer injury). Periodically these three conspire to bring me down for a day.
I just keep experimenting with different combinations of treatments. For now an overdose of ibuprofen, taken early enough, seems to un-impinge the nerve passages and head off the worst of it.
Friend of mine had a stroke a few years ago. One of the complications was problems integrating the visuals from both eyes, which fav her horrible headaches after a couple hours. So she wore an eye patch. Which she rotated between her eyes, so one didn’t do more work. After a couple months, the guy at her coffee shop finally asked why it wasn’t over the same eye. (She’s much better these days. )
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All your headaches sound really terrible, I am so sorry 
@Acacia What kind of soccer injury led to that, if I may ask?
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Fractured orbital bone, snapped fibula. Good old days. (these were about five years apart).
I still give my Mom grief - because the fibula has the tibia there to help it out, we didn’t even know I’d snapped it for two weeks. She kept pushing me to run and stay in shape. I tried. I really tried.
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Number 2 tested positive today… technically, this is the 4th of my coworkers (out of 14) that have tested positive this year, and 2 had to isolate when their son tested positive but they somehow dodged getting it themselves.
I told some friends that this whole situation feels a little like what sex was like in high school: Everyone around me seems to be getting it, and I’m not, and I don’t know what’s going on but I’m pretty sure I don’t want it…
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I hope you meant to do it.
One of my DIY misadventures resulted in me adding a skylight to my garage from my son’s bedroom directly above.
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Yeah, we accidentally removed 1000 square feet of drywall from the attic and neatly stacked it in the garage. I hate it when that happens. (Insulators are coming, and it needs to be open for them.
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Don’t you have it when that happens? [End sarcasm]
Hope it all goes well
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