It has been such a long year.

I like being by myself. For the most part I’ve enjoyed hiding away in my little apartment, getting groceries delivered, working from home. I don’t really need a lot of human interaction. But by this point even I have gotten pangs of wanting to go to the city and sit in my favorite coffee shop, or just window shopping, or being able to go to a restaurant or stroll through Gamla Stan. Most of all I’ve missed being able to meet Dimitris normally. In the last year we have had just two brief stretches of time when we could see each other semi-“normally” - ie not two meters apart, outside or with all windows open (in the freezing cold), sleeping in separate rooms. He can’t self isolate the way I have been, so we’ve had to be careful. Luckily this Christmas break has given us a week of safe self-isolation.