
Maybe it was unusually warm spring weather. Maybe it was something about hitting the third anniversary of that time the whole world shut down. Suddenly, I was a social person again. At last!
I mean, I've seen people — sometimes even away from Zoom — since 2020. But between the pandemic and graduate school and a few other big things, I hadn't had a whole lot of actual fun with people I like to hang out with in a long time.