The office white board was covered with the planned dates of vacations never taken and conferences never attended. Seeing all that stuff felt like stepping into a parallel universe where the pandemic never happened. /Digression2
I had a similar experience returning to my own office after evacuating for the fire. It was full of reminders of the things we had been planning before getting blind sided by the fires. With my own office it was maybe even more jarring, both because it was my office rather than someone else's and because it was just a few days rather than a year or so. It really gave me the feeling that reality had skipped the tracks and dumped me in a parallel universe. /Digression3