I woke up a little early today and was feeling frantic. I left my room and took a brisk walk around the community and duck pond. It felt good as the sun had just come up and it was still on the cooler side. There are so many geese around the pond that they have set up multiple nests and the males are waddling all over the place hissing at me as I past. Only a few smokers from the male unit were out on the patios. That’s one thing I really appreciate about the set up here. Each building gets designated a male or female unit. I don’t know what they would do with the increasing right for equality fights. Where do you put a male who recognize as a female or visa versa. Since we don’t have any that I know of I guess I wont know the answer to this.
Each meal, gym, training, and pool time are separated. The woman eat in one room or the outdoor patio and the men in another so there is very little overlapping. We see them walking or out smoking but have very little relative contact with each other. It leaves no pressure and takes out certain aspects of unconscious actions. There are definitely some guys here who look like they were on meth and some that look like steroids are their main issue. It’s a wide range of physics and ages. Since I don’t get to see many of them I can only say from a distance what I see. There are some really built guys here though.
The woman here are just as different and have a wide range of addictions but they are all connected by this one disease. I am proud to say I am one of them now. I don’t spend a minute alone, except my morning walk. When I got back to the dorm my room mate was up and completing her job of knocking on everyone’s door with a wake up call. I went in to our room and changed for the day into my bathing suite, shorts, and a T-shirt that states Be stronger than your excuses. Even as I was exiting the room I received a compliment. I walked around the hall to the office window to see two notes with my name on it. One for instructions to go to the Medical Unit at 8am for my second Covid test and one for the meeting I was to have with my new therapist at 130pm.