I wanna go to work, sorta

In Barry Louis Polisar's I Don't Wanna Go To School, Tommy does not want to go to school. As someone  who missed an average of 25 days a year from about third through eighth grade, I sympathize with Tom.

But (***spoiler alert****) Tommy is the principal.

I thought of the tune as I went back to the office for the first time since December 18.

It wasn't that I didn't want to go -- just the opposite really -- but I was afraid.

What if I fall or this or that?

Maybe I just  shou not take leave.