Realm: Week in Review [Mid-Lent, 2020]
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choco_froshSubrealm: A not-altogether cheerful Laetare.
So as I’ve said, the original plan was that I was going to go up to Maine for the tail end of this week, then get back to Boston in time for Mid-Lent Sunday services (and ringing) today.
Obviously, this did not happen.
Instead, I did the closest I could manage, which was doing a Zoom call with Squigamunk and Partner on Friday. (Squig. has been laid off; partner is working from home. They have been keeping themselves amused with re-playing Skyrim and acquiring a dozen baby chickens.) And I drafted this this afternoon while waiting for another Zoom meeting, this time with my relatives (and some wine.)
Life around here has sorta settled into a routine, though one that will probably need to be modified as my roommates start doing more online teaching. Get up (late)(by my standards), have breakfast, pick a work location in the apartment, attempt to keep my nose to the grindstone for 7.5 hours plus lunch break. Possibly take a REALLY long lunch break and go running, then put in an extra half hour in the evening to make up the difference.
If there’s enough going on, that is.
This weekend, we declared Saturday to be Spring Cleaning day (or at least Spring Cleaning pt. 1). I cleaned one of the bathrooms, took a break to make hot cross buns, and then cleaned the rest of the kitchen floor.
Today I got up, said Matins, ran a load of laundry, and then in the afternoon went for a 2-hour walk.*
So overall, it was an pretty okay weekend.
If you have to be in what amounts to (though isn’t yet officially mandated) Shelter-in-Place...
* I was worried for a time that this would have to be cut short, I’m also on-call in case a former colleague needs help. In a metaphor for everything that is wrong with America, she was already teaching while taking care of her elderly mother, who has dementia; and she is STILL trying to do the latter, only while she also has the Coronavirus. Holy shit.
PS Weather this weekend: was chilly (20s at night) but sunny.
So as I’ve said, the original plan was that I was going to go up to Maine for the tail end of this week, then get back to Boston in time for Mid-Lent Sunday services (and ringing) today.
Obviously, this did not happen.
Instead, I did the closest I could manage, which was doing a Zoom call with Squigamunk and Partner on Friday. (Squig. has been laid off; partner is working from home. They have been keeping themselves amused with re-playing Skyrim and acquiring a dozen baby chickens.) And I drafted this this afternoon while waiting for another Zoom meeting, this time with my relatives (and some wine.)
Life around here has sorta settled into a routine, though one that will probably need to be modified as my roommates start doing more online teaching. Get up (late)(by my standards), have breakfast, pick a work location in the apartment, attempt to keep my nose to the grindstone for 7.5 hours plus lunch break. Possibly take a REALLY long lunch break and go running, then put in an extra half hour in the evening to make up the difference.
If there’s enough going on, that is.
This weekend, we declared Saturday to be Spring Cleaning day (or at least Spring Cleaning pt. 1). I cleaned one of the bathrooms, took a break to make hot cross buns, and then cleaned the rest of the kitchen floor.
Today I got up, said Matins, ran a load of laundry, and then in the afternoon went for a 2-hour walk.*
So overall, it was an pretty okay weekend.
If you have to be in what amounts to (though isn’t yet officially mandated) Shelter-in-Place...
* I was worried for a time that this would have to be cut short, I’m also on-call in case a former colleague needs help. In a metaphor for everything that is wrong with America, she was already teaching while taking care of her elderly mother, who has dementia; and she is STILL trying to do the latter, only while she also has the Coronavirus. Holy shit.
PS Weather this weekend: was chilly (20s at night) but sunny.
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Date: 2020-03-23 01:16 am (UTC)We have also been cleaning like mad, which is necessary but horrifying.
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Date: 2020-03-29 08:34 pm (UTC)Hot cross buns sound lovely!
Cleaning is...yeah. I've kept my room more clean in the past two weeks than basically ever before, which is a really interesting commentary on time and energy and All That. it's still cluttered as hell, which I don't love, but I'm picking it up every few days.
~Sor