in which there is A Lot but i am okay

• I may be eligible for a vaccine in Maryland because of my church singing job, which I haven't been to in a year (because it's not safe). I've booked the appointment and progressed to stressing about whether I will get there and be turned away before I can roll up my sleeve. (I mean: I'm scheduled for the first dose in 51 hours and I can hear my heart pounding in my ears.) If they send me home, I'll survive until they do want to give me the shot, but I am so eager to join the growing herd, I felt like I had to do something proactive.
  
• When it is safe to go back to the choir loft - with a choir and not just as a cantor, which I think is all they have for the time being - my buddy the choir director won't be there as he's given up that gig. I am seriously bummed about that, though it does free a person up to look for a different church job not as far away now that the folks I was loyal to have departed.
  
• Our neighbors down the street, who have two kids bracketing the prince in age so they were among the likely targets for play dates once we can emerge, are moving; one of the dads got a fancy new job that's too far to commute to from here. House is on the market Friday. We don't know them well, but I'm down about this also; there just aren't that many people I like, so it's a bummer to lose any of them.