Year in review 2022

2022 has been dominated by trying to cope with Omicron through sheer force of personal responsibility, with the government having "exited" any public health measures in March. Aside from endless pandemic grind, there have been a few moments, but it's not a year I hugely want to remember.

The biggest thing that has happened this year is something I'm still not really talking about in public, so I'm going to make an accompanying locked post after this rather bland general summary.

Significant events

• [Redacted - see locked post]
  
• At work, I managed a team of four and got some recognition for the outstanding achievements of my team. We have done a lot of work on major national and international training projects, including the massive one around Covid, basically training the whole world to use cutting edge scientific techniques to inform their response to Covid and other infectious diseases. The main bit of it I was directly involved in was 4 and a half (fifth launches early 2023) massive online courses which have collectively reached over 10,000 people.
  
• My best friend hatam_soferet moved in just round the corner with her husband and their 5yo. So we have been very much enjoying being neighbours instead of being stuck on different continents like the last couple of decades. The kid absolutely adores me and jack, which has made things extra lovely.
  
• I've done a lot of Jewish community teaching, several different groups of tweens and young adults, several formal adult groups, and some visiting preacher work. I've continued as a member of the synagogue board; a new chair took over in April and we have started working in quite a focused way to improve social connections within the community. Historically this was never a priority and I feel reasonably proud of what we're achieving. However the new board are also quite pro-Covid so the community is no longer taking any meaningful precautions, and this means that community stuff along with in-person work is eating my entire Covid risk budget and then some.
  
• I had a couple of nice holidays and smaller trips with jack. Managed to meet up with my very old friend D while she was in London, and visited angelofthenorth who also came to stay with me.

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